And a hearty welcome home

Well, I am utterly tired and exhausted in a way that I before would only associate with finals period at home and/or a really great cast party.

I just took my Textanalyse final, and while there were indeed moments that were just sucky, I clearly demonstrated that, yes! I do know things about poetry, and the measurements thereof! I can tell you something about the struktur of the Rückwendung in this Ausschnitt, and jetzt mache ich das! Seid ihr nicht zufrieden? Ruhe! Ich habe genug von eure Dummheit!

O, mein Gott, ich kann nicht heute Englisch sprechen. Es ist mir so müde heute, ich habe einfach nicht genung geschlafen, mein Wecker ist um 5 Uhr bereit und ich bin davor aufgewacht. Es tut mir Leid, alle, aber ich muss mal schlafen. Vielleicht mehr darüber später aber nicht bis heute Abend am frühstens.

Hearty Welcome Home, part ii: the Welcome Strikes Back.

I meant my last post to be more about the circumstances I've just been advised are awaiting me when I return home. My English ran out halfway through: I don't make any promises for now, but I am slightly less dead, so hopefully I'll make it through.
( Life at home. )

I still want to get home. I emailed someone at the college library about a job in their conservation department- the advertising was posted in May, but it may still be effective for Fall 2008, and the fact that I could get trained over the summer might help me there.

I also need to get back in the saddle with my Latin- I'm signed up for an intermediate level course in it. This semester drove home why it's important to have a good background in Latin, but I found that I have serious troubles with the way that they teach Latin- one is not so much expected to speak or write in it so much as decipher out of it. If this year has taught me anything, it's that I cannot learn a language by sitting around and reading it in a book: I need to be writing in it and getting that writing criticized and corrected. My German comprehension is about as good as it was last semester, but my composition has improved immensely since then. I've been writing much more in German than last semester, and that has made all the difference.