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house-renting blues

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2020.08.03

We've now lost a couple of homes we'd wanted to rent. We've got a third option now, it's way out in the burbs (believe it or not it's possible to live in do-we-need-a-car-here territory in this country), not far from where my friend Richard and his son live. We have to effectively apply for the place sight (site?) unseen before the owners have even moved out.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong