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5,000 journal entries

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.04.25

I've now written some five thousand entries in this journal of mine. It's fun to look back and see where it's all gone. I couldn't have known, that hungover January 1st in 1997, that it would be like this, but - so far, so good. Though it would be nice to know that I've already documented my last migraine or spill from my bike!

It took me twelve years to write my first 2,500 entries, and only five more to reach 5,000. Let's see where I am by 7,500!

rand()m quote

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel