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 …
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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 …
Idyll
I came from poverty. So in this day and age — even after personally making the grade — I can’t fathom, can’t understand how so many people can sit in their car and idle their engine for so long, as if gasoline costs nothing, as if noise wasn’t a societal issue, as if exhaust wasn’t …
Donnertraüme
Flashing between regret and resolve regarding taking German III. This is the kind of semester where the kid gloves come off. The class is mostly auf Deutsch, and coming into that 3 hours a week over crappy Zoom audio is a struggle. I have to think on my feet and just get into the dance. …