Achtung!

I was playing Medal of Honor again today. Viel Spass. There was this one time when I threw a grenade into a room of hostile Nazis and suddenly one of the Nazis fell to the ground before the grenade had even exploded. At first I thought that was weird, but then I realized that he had dove onto the grenade; he was sacrificing himself to save his comrades. Hmm. I laughed. I finished another mission today too. It was another sneaky mission where I had to use my silencer and everything. I kept getting lost though. It is so hard to find one’s way around those dark video game buildings. I finished my Medal of Honor playing for the night by blowing myself up with a grenade.

All afternoon I sat here on my computer, but I was actually doing homework for much of it. I had to read an article online for linguistics. Of course, I kept getting distracted and doing other things. But no one was ever online. It was sad but good. Good because I was less distracted.

German is awesome. Here’s a quote from Mark Twain about the “wonderful” German language.
"An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech -- not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary -- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam -- that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reinclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it -- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about."

So... I dusted this evening. Weird, I know.