*chirp chirp*

I think the pages of the blog have been echo-y as of late, largely because I've been pre-occupied with finishing my 10-page Hausarbeit (final essay, roughly translated) by this coming Tuesday. Yes. It is but 10 pages. But I have a number of outstanding, solid excuses for why I am still working on it!

1. I loathe essay writing.
2. It must be in German.
3. I loathe essay writing.
4. It is on Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler's short story Lieutenant Gustl, which was the very first piece in German literature to be written using the Stream-Of-Consciousness technique.
5. I loathe essay writing.
6. All of my research proceeds twice as slow, because most of it is in complex German.
7. I loathe essay writing.
8. All of my writing proceeds twice as slow, because I must translate it into sufficiently intelligent German that doesn't sound like a 12-year-old.
9. I loathe essay writing.
10. The dichotomy of the mind as unveiled in the novelle through the Stream-Of-Consciousness technique ("Bewußtseinsstromteknik", try that on for unwieldly words) is not an easy topic.
11. I loathe essay writing.
12. I am technically on break and have virtually no motivation.
13. I loathe essay writing.
14. (I do like writing letters, though).
15. I loathe essay writing.
16. Essay writing in Germany is completely different from essay writing in America. I am simultaneously trying to learn the system and structure.
17. Last but not least, I loathe essay writing.
18. In any language.

See? Very logical, methinks. Thus, I have not blogged anything recently. Not that there might be anyone standing in the empty cybernetic room of my blog to hear this.

Cheers and wish me luck. (Or as the Germans would say, press your thumbs for me).