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laid low

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2016.03.11

Laid low for two days, in my prime, just barely 45, by my fourth bug this winter. Shuffled over to pick up my son and his friend's mother told me it was the same for her (the count of sicknesses, not the advancing age).

And when I was sent by the doctor to pick my meds and I couldn't read the pill bottle. So I bought some $8 pharmacy reading glasses. There was a woman there buying some (she showed me where the 1/2 price ones were) and I admitted it was my first time. She advised me to go get drunk with friends.

rand()m quote

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

—Socrates