#240 words

My stomach churned.

Not only during the walks, also during the lessons that followed. Languages, history, social studies all blurred together a little. My stomach was not used to… this.

And by this I meant sugar and fat simply being dumped into my stomach. After a night of drinking. Really, what had I been thinking.

Maybe I still was a little bit drunk. Or something. I certainly felt a bit strange.

Considering that, I figured a little more sleep would not go amiss.

Telling Richard I really did NOT want to be bothered, and that he should spread it to the others, I trotted ack home. Sometimes I missed the messy, rainy digs – the parties afterwards were less likely to fuck up your brain.

With a bit of a grumble, I sat down, set out a water pitcher and started my homework. Interpreting, comparing, reassessing…

I worked through the source material and filed in the answers, scribbling a few hundred words per question.

With a sigh, I finished (headache not really gone) and proofread the whole thing before sending it in.

I was entirely sure I had not written this. Because I was not of the opinion that ‘all this is very funny, but taken a little too seriously. People laughed at this stuff at the time’.

I stared at the whole miserable piece of writing, emptied the last water glass and went to bed.

Schrack was Poorly Educated

I do not think Schrack was very literate. He lived his life as a poor farmer, so he probably did not receive a formal education. Here is evidence from his writing to support this hypothesis:

• He often neglects to punctuate, or he does so in a way that is not grammatical by either English or German standards. He writes many incomplete sentences and run-on sentences. • He does not spell words consistently. For example, he spells the P.A. Dutch word for 'now' as both 'nau' and 'nou.' Note, though, that P.A. Dutch has no spelling conventions, so either spelling is technically acceptable. • He does not capitalize consistently. Sometimes, he uses the German convention of capitalizing nouns, and sometimes, he neglects to even capitalize at the beginning of sentences.

His German is Becoming "Englishy" In many instances, Schrack deviates from proper German words/spellings, using words/spellings closer to English or P.A. Dutch. This truly encapulates the hybrid nature of Schrack's writing. Here are a few instances where this occurs: 

• In German, the letter 'w' is pronounced 'v'. Schrack writes the German word 'weil' (because) as 'veil,' a more Englishy way to spell the word. • The German word for 'hand,' a cognate, is pronounced hɒnt. Schrack spells it 'hant,' which is a phonetic English spelling. • Schrack writes the German word Buchweizen (buckwheat) once, and then he uses the English word, 'Buckwheat' later in the same paragraph. He does the same thing with Weizen (wheat).

Bloody head and bloody life.

I agreed to go to this Beatles thing that my sister's school is doing and both her and my brother are in it (I think, I dunno) and I agreed to go, but if it is anything like the last one of these they did it was dull as fuck.

But at least it's The Beatles this time, not just...whatever it was before.