Going to bed half an hour late because of the thunderstorm threw me right off, then I picked up my phone first thing in the morning and just skipped the whole morning routine. I had one of those morning that are full of dread and the feeling that everything is awful and will always be awful in the future forever and ever.
Good thing I know when my brain is lying to me.
I did pick up stitches for the second button band, so that’s something. My husband needed the kitchen in the morning so I decided to turn my day around, work at my desk in the morning and clean the house in the afternoon.
I was actually pretty good but after half an hour of proofreading I finally realized that I was working on the wrong version of the document. See, I was proofreading „EM2 revision“ instead of „EM final“. Oops. So I worked on some scenes I had already finished in the other version.
I still made progress which is good.
Lunch was a little late, so I used the time to change the sheets on my bed. Lunch was very good and harmonious:
I played some „Chants of Sennaar“ after lunch, bought another mobile game (not quite sure if that was a good idea) and yet another book (I’m almost halfway through already but it isn’t all that long.) before finally getting up from the kitchen bench, doing another humungous pile of dishes and then I cleaned the house. Well, just the middles. Quickly.
I watched some videos about how to sound less German when speaking English. I think I am avoiding the most awful mistakes. Fixing the rest, I don’t know. Like the boy said, it would be loads of work just to sound like I’m from somewhere in Great Britain. I mean, I can generally just talk (or write) and say what I want and am generally understood. I am sometimes afraid that I’m one of those people whose accents is just a little too grating but well, I can’t tell. I can tell that my accent waxes and wanes, when I’m tired or tipsy it’s stronger. But then that is true for my accent when speaking German as well. Everybody can tell that I’m not from Bavaria but how Northern (or rather East-Westphalian) I sound depends on who I’m talking to and how much energy I have. When a podcast listener told me I sounded ‚nicely Bavarian‘ I was very surprised because Bavarian people definitely don’t think so.
I also had an interesting moment when talking to a couple of family members from Hamburg made me talk in purest East-Westphalian (well, German) and they couldn’t understand me. Duh. Because the way they talk is so much closer to the way people talk where I grew up my subconscious let go completely and, wham, the result was a lot of ‚Huh?’
Maybe that answers it. I would say that the way I usually talk when speaking German is pretty close to High German and still my accent shifts all over the place. How am I supposed to figure out what kind of English accent I should attempt when I can’t even do it in my first language?
The boy and I did bodyweight and I ended up feeling complete FOMO because the boy had gone out to buy junk food.So I did the same. After the pouring rain all day it was very nice to walk to the store listening to some J-Hope and BTS. I came home with some coated peanuts, licorice, gummy bears and parmesan (because unlike the boy I am looking at the grocery list before going to the store) and I made that my dinner. Well, not the parmesan.
I started writing this post, did Duolingo (I’m in an insane league this week, everybody is making XP like crazy and I don’t want to), watched half an episode of C-drama while knitting and went to bed.
I’m really hoping to make some progress with proofreading today. It always makes my brain complete mush and I don’t like that.
Leave a Reply