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a night of two milestones

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Fukuoka, 2024.10.03

My Japanese instructor informs me that we've been working together for four years, as of this week. It seems like the three-year mark was only two months ago. 時間は早く流れる。

The other milestone is that I've now lived in Japan for a total of 9.5 years. That's the same duration that my Japanese wife lived in Canada. We're tied, and I'm taking the lead! Mwahahaha!

rand()m quote

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould