I’m super glad that I set up an OpenVPN server in my apartment, especially this weekend. Do you know what national hotel chain offers free WiFi, but that it’s: It’s Comfort Inn. That’s who. And they’re not the only one. First, I hate this. Give me a password with my room key, change it daily, …
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Ich werde mich jetzt selbst hassen. OK!
Haha, hahaha haha, hah. I did it. I registered for Deutsch IV, the final semester. I’m stupid and inconsistent and make bad choices. Ja. Apparently, I actually do need exogenous reasons to hate myself. It counterbalances and silences all my endogenous reasons to hate myself. Ein mal mehr!
Bestanden
Two-week-old news by now, but I share here. My final grade in Deutsch III is a mid-B, 84.8%. I still feel like Professorin was being too kind to me in her scoring, because I still don’t trust my competence. I feel like I did terribly. Scores aren’t everything. I’m not fluent. Throughout the latter half …
Capped
Found out today, while scheduling PTO for the holidays, that I am currently at my limit for saving up my Paid Time Off. I’m unable to accrue any more free time-money. 280 hours, max. That’s 7 fucking business-weeks. What even am I doing with my life? In “Star Trek: Insurrection”, Captain Picard mentioned he had …
Leveling
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In my third semester of Deutsch, I understand that the difficulty of learning a language increases logarithmically. It’s like the skill leveling in a MUD of old. 1x to level up once. 1,000,000,000x to level up ten times. I …