Come into the depths of Sarah's mind

OneWithTheMud · 11-12-2007, 03:55 PM

Sigh. It's a sad day when 75% on a quiz is an accomplishment. I've taken three quizzes in this class so far. The first two were 66% and 41%. 4.5/6 was a huge success for me.

OneWithTheMud · 11-28-2007, 07:10 PM

Life is busy. I'm trying desperately to get back to Germany. ...writing resumés and cover letters, filling out applications. Hhh, it's frustrating. I'm currently watching Shrek the Halls on ABC. I have a French oral exam tomorrow. The French department here is ridiculous. A test the day after Thanksgiving, oral test within the week, chapter test the next week, final exam the following week. Ridiculous. I'm fed up wih it all.

OneWithTheMud · 12-31-2007, 11:24 AM

Heh, long time.

I just spent 15 days in Germany with my friend. I miss him a lot. It was a good time, though nothing extraordinary. We had a small Christmas tree decorated with lights and red ornaments, but I spent most of the day alone, because my friend's friend's daughter was sick and and in the hospital. It was kind of nice to spend Christmas alone because I was able to think and reflect on everything instead of being distracted by all the Christmas presents and traditions. I fell completely in love with a Christmas song on Christmas day. It's called Maria durch einen Dornwald ging and it is beautiful. Look it up on YouTube (Thomaner Chor one, or something like that). And then I had a job interview on Thursday. I think it went fairly well.

The flight back was fine. The guy next to me kept sticking his arm on my side of the armrest. I slept for the first half of the flight and then watched The Santa Clause 3 and Dodgeball. From the airport, my parents and I went directly to my sister's, where I got to see my adorable niece.

Today, I'm going to celebrate Christmas with my parents. I got each of them about six gifts (fyi: Gift means poison in German). I hope they like them. For my dad, I got a UM t-shirt, a foam brick (to throw at the TV during football games), a coffee grinder, Starbuck's house blend coffee, a Starbuck's coffee cup, and some German chocolate. For my mom, I got a candle holder and a wooden cross from Ten Thousand Villages, a pie server, a tea pot, and some birds that go on the Christmas tree. I think that's all I bought for them, but it feels like I'm forgetting something. There was more that I wanted to get them, but I ran out of time in the US to shop for those things.

So, yeah. Today is Christmas for me. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful new year.

OneWithTheMud · 01-04-2008, 04:28 PM

School is awful and depressing. A certain male is stressful. Books are expensive. I'm sick and I am tired. My neck is in pain and causes bad headaches. The doctor told me to take Advil. I am 50 minutes over on my cell phone plan for this past month. That will translate to about $25 extra on my bill assuming that I don't need to use even more minutes. Yo ho ho and a very literal bottle of rum (or maybe just Mike's Hard Lemonade, since that's all I have on hand).

***Art*** · 01-04-2008, 07:45 PM

Hey, at least Michigan won their bowl game, right?

OneWithTheMud · 01-13-2008, 10:29 AM

Exactly.

OneWithTheMud · 01-26-2008, 10:00 PM

And to complain some more:

Life sucks. I am so fed up with everything. And on top of being stressed out and fed up, I'm completely hurt. My heart is aching. *sigh* I don't even know what to say. The past few days have been awful. Awful awful terrible awful. Blah blah so on and so forth. I am so sad.

OneWithTheMud · 02-03-2008, 11:10 PM

There is still nothing positive to say. I'm still very sad. But as corny as it may be (and I'm going to look back at this post and wonder why in the world I was being so sappy), this little song has given me some comfort. I was talking to my mother on the phone and she said, 'remember that psalty song that you used to listen to when you were little? I will cast all my cares upon you...' And the memory of the song came flooding back. In the movie, it has something to do with being in the woods, camping or something, and maybe someone getting lost. But they sang the song 'I will cast all of my cares upon You. I'll lay all of my burdens down at Your feet. And any time that I don't know what to do, I will cast all my cares upon You.' I've come so far from that small child who used to watch those videos. I can't say that I'm too pleased with or proud of what I am now. I've caused myself so much pain. And right now it hurts so much. But that song from my past gives me some comfort... maybe I can do what it says.

OneWithTheMud · 07-14-2008, 10:12 PM

Well, well. It has been a while. Here is an update if anyone even reads this...

I graduated from the University of Michigan in April. It was a beautiful day. And now I'm trying to find a job or two that will take me. I have one job, but it's not enough and it certainly isn't a great job. But I guess I have to start somewhere.

And now I'm very tired. Good night.

athanatos · 11-23-2008, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by OneWithTheMud

Well, well. It has been a while. Here is an update if anyone even reads this...

I graduated from the University of Michigan in April. It was a beautiful day. And now I'm trying to find a job or two that will take me. I have one job, but it's not enough and it certainly isn't a great job. But I guess I have to start somewhere.

And now I'm very tired. Good night.

Congrats! Gute Arbeit! Haben Sie ein neues Job jetzt gefunden? Ich liebe Deutsch und Philologie/Linguistik (sp?), aber ich studiere Psychologie und Philosophie.

OneWithTheMud · 04-24-2009, 11:31 PM

Well, it's been a year and I haven't found a new job. But I'm starting a master's program in the fall: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (aka TESOL). Ich hätte lieber Deutsch weiter studiert, aber leider gibt es keine gute Möglichkeit, so was später zu benutzen. Ich vermisse Deutschland sehr. Ich will nur zurück...