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[kittydesade]

CHRISTINE: Einige Sachen haben mir ausgesprochen gut gefallen. Zum Beispiel kann man in America auch abends und am ganzen Wochenende einkaufen gehen. Das finde ich toll. Und ich finde die Amerikaner unglaublich freundlich. In den Geschäften und Restaurants waren alle einerseits sehr hiflsbereit...

CHRISTINE: Several things expressed to me pleased me well. For example, one can go shopping in America on and on weekends (altogether). I find that great. And I find that Americans unbelievably friendly. In the stores and restaurants on the one hand everyone was very helpful...

PETER: Und, andererseits, was hat dir weniger gefallen?

PETER: And on the other hand, what did you like less?

CHRISTINE: Na ja, also sei mir bitte nicht böse, aber diese Freundlichkeit erscheint mir manchmal doch auch sehr oberflächlich. Einmal war ich zum Beispiel beim Arzt, und die Krankenschwester hat Christine zu mir gesagt und nicht Miss oder Ms. Hagen. Sie hat mich doch gar nicht gekannt! Wir benutzen den Vornamen nur unter Freunden.

CHRISTINE: Well, please don't be angry with me, but their friendliness sometimes also appears very superficial. One time for example I was at the doctor's, and the nurse called/said-to-me Christine, and not Miss or Ms. Hagen. She doesn't even know me! We use the first names only between friends.

PETER: Das sehen wir eben anders. Ein nettes Lächeln und ein freundliches Wort im Alltag machen das Leben eben einfacher.

PETER: We just see that differently. People make/do/use a nice smile and a kind word in everyday life. (?)


Every once in a while I forget that just because I type up a wall o' deutsch doesn't mean I have to translate it all at one fell swoop. I don't do it for Russian after all. And probably wouldn't do it for Japanese if they gave me more than one sizable dialogue.

My musical inclinations are running away with me. I need to sit down and sketch that out this check-in, but, augh! There's so much I want to do! This is, actually, another way in which Courtesan School helps. By doing these new things in this format, I have to sit down and break down getting to the goal into baby steps, look at whether or not I've tried and failed to do this before and how I've failed so I can fail better the next time. (Not at all is still failing better.) And this is something I need to do with music, because it would be so very easy for me to get in over my head. My chord changes and my fingerpicking/picking has gotten a lot better, but by no means is it up to scan a piece of music and play it a couple nights later levels. And I could use a better grounding in theory, or a grounding in theory at all.

PLUS then I'll get behind on costuming and writing and feel like crap when I go back and look at all the writing things I meant to do. Which would be bad. Very bad. Very very bad. So, balance, checking in, writing things down and organizing myself.

My Bordertown hair pins came today! They are awesome. Now I need ribbons and guitar picks to dangle from them, because I am an uberdork like that. Um. Really, there isn't much else going on. The electric guitar is an Austin-brand Gibson Les Paul knock off, that actually doesn't sound too bad. And they have Squier strats for $150. I'm going to see what else they have because while none of it sounds like the top shelf kind of thing, those prices are REALLY DAMN GOOD. And checking in will organize my head so I can think of something besides music right now. My head voices/Also-Mes are so pointing and laughing at me.

I don't really care. Electric guitars and set lists and learning things and music and writing and YAY.