Fleeting Moment of Music. And a Little Update.

Man... sometimes, some of the neatest non-classical music that NPR plays is the stuff that they use to transition in between news stories (and I'm not talking about that incessantly repeated trumpet-y jingle that's the so-called theme). Sometimes I'm listening to NPR and think, "... What is that? That's SO COOL!"-- and then it's gone. Because it's a bloody 4.3 second clip of it. And I never even find out what it is. Le sigh.

Nah, I haven't posted much recently. University in America has reared its unseemly head in the last few weeks. And what's currently on my mind right now is a very large amount of class reading to do, and getting out of a German class, Intermediate Composition and Conversation, that is supposed to be required for my major.

Why? Because I just spent an entire year in Germany doing heavy research on and writing 10-page papers in German about things like Der Bewußtsseinsstrom in Leutnant Gustl von Arthur Schnitzler and Metaphoriken des Wassers in Ingeborg Bachmanns Undine Geht and Gedichtanalyse der anakreontischen Lyrik von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and so on and so forth. And if you had been writing whole essays and giving oral presentations on such topics in front of entire classrooms of native speakers of your 2nd/3rd/4th language, you'd be pretty bored senseless too if you came back and your German class assignments looked like this:

Read this one-page, large-print story written for the difficulty level of a German 3rd grader in this text book that's slightly thinner than the width of your index finger but stupidly cost you over $100 (?!).

Then write 10 adjectives regarding this-and-this topic of the story, and compose a 150-word letter from one main character to another.

SAVE ME.