A mass of German vocab and grammar rules is floating around in my head which I cannot seem to organise.

Too preoccupied with work these days; work and worrying about work. The latter renders the former counter-productive most times. It's come to a point where sometimes you have no choice but to substitute quality for deadlines, you can't correct that essay as many times as you'd like, can't mug for tests as much as you have to.

So I have taken to quoting, she says it lucidly, eloquently, articulately. 3 things I'm not, at the moment.

Whether you succeed or fail, live or die, laugh or smile depends on you. Sure, it would be nice if the rest of the world shut the hell up and left you to it. It's easier to regulate emotions in isolation. But we're never going to have that. The annoyances, the distractions and the bad feelings are always going to be there. The only option we have is on how hard we fight. I have to admit, I find it hard to get my determination back, but we have to. If only for your own sake. Don't let life get in the way of your plans.

And so I won't. I refuse to let it. Annoyances and bad feelings, be gone! Something about her quote makes me think of the inscriptions on the stones in the columbarium where my grandfather's ashes are kept, it's a Christian quote, (please correct me, I'm most probably quoting it wrong) which goes something like "I've fought the good fight." (That's all I can remember, it's a longer inscription), I'd like that on my epitaph next time.