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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2013.08.20

I left home before 07:00 this morning, cycling under a red dawn on streets I expected to find a good deal quieter than they in fact turned out to be. The weather is finally getting summery again after a month where it'd dipped into the teens. The red/orange haze in the eastern half of the sky was reflected on the buildings downtown and smeared across the road before me as I went. It was nice.

The reason I set off so early was to write a practice test in advance of the exam I'm facing. I got the results I needed, but still missed a number of questions. Naturally, when re-writing them without a count-down clock bearing down on me, I got all but one of those right. Lousy time pressure!

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery