Writing lines and squares

Dear readers,

Sorry for the delay in updates (but hey, it's much more frequent than it was a few weeks ago, right?). Last week I visited a dear friend, so I didn't have to write lines.

In the week before that, however, I had to write two assignments for Miss Melanie. The first one was fairly standard: "Damit ich im Training bleibe, habe ich heute diese Zeilen zu schreiben." ("To keep up the training, I have to write these lines today) 200 times.

 

 

The next task however was rather memorable. I had to fill two pages of squares with increasing prime numbers. Sounds easy but it is really, really hard. Because you need to focus all the time. And unlike the last time I had to write squares, this time I couldn't just simply write because I always had to look up what the next prime number was.

 

 

And being focused for hours isn't really that simple. Especially when you have to fear making a mistake and having to toss away hours of work, as it happened on page 2 for me. One simple mistake (I forgot one digit), more than an hour of work - gone.

-Cornelia

More writing for Miss Melanie

Dear readers,

with the week being over I want to keep you up to date on my writing assignments. I'll do that in reverse order because the first one was quite interesting, on an emotional level.

So yesterday I had to write "Damit ich morgen einen Tag frei bekomme, darf ich heute diese Zeilen für Miss Melanie schreiben." ("To have a free day tomorrow, I get to write these lines for Miss Melanie today.") 250 times.

 

 

 

Not much to say about this. Simple, straightforward lines.

Now, on first sight the lines that I had to write on Thursday were pretty much the same. The task was to write "Ich darf meinen Abend damit verbringen, diese Zeilen für Miss Melanie zu schreiben." ("I'm allowed to spend my evening writing these lines for Miss Melanie") 250 times.

 

 

 

As I said, pretty much the same. However the big difference was timing. On Thursday I came home from work at around 8 PM after a long work day (where I already did some writing). So when I started this assignment my hand did hurt already. That's really not good if it already starts after a few lines (not good for me, but Miss Melanie seemed delighted about that fact when I told her afterwards).

The thing is, my usual bed time is around 11 PM if I have to go to work the next day. I started this task at around 8:20 and finished it at about 11:30. So my entire free time on that day was taken away from me, and then some! This really put me into an emotional roller coaster. I had the most insane "afterglow" after I finished this task, that made it impossible to go to bed because my head was filled with thoughts and emotions that I can't even begin to write down because I can't really put them into words.

-Cornelia

Spending (most of) the weekend writing

Dear readers,

again I had the pleasure(!?) of writing for the lovely Miss Melanie this weekend.

On Friday evening she contacted me via IM out of the blue and just told me to write "Es ist mir eine große Freude, diese fünfhundert Zeilen übers Wochenende für Miss Melanie schreiben zu dürfen." (translation: "It is a great pleasure for me to be allowed to write these five-hundred lines over the weekend for Miss Melanie"). 500 times, obviously. Deadline was Sunday evening.

So I wrote the first 100 lines on Friday evening, I woke up early on Saturday and decided to start writing (at 7:30). I somehow thought that the whole task would require 8 hours of writing. And I wanted to do it all on Saturday to have a free day on Sunday. Taking into account that I already wrote 100 lines I thought I'd be finished early in the afternoon. I'm not sure what I made me think that because in the end it took me until 18:00 to finish the 500 lines, encompassing 25 pages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After I finished that I actually really enjoyed the evening and was looking forward to another (well, this time really) free day on Sunday. I guess sometimes you only appreciate something if you have less of it. 

I talked about this with Miss Melanie on Sunday and she kinda agreed. I cheekinly said that she should try writing herself.

Well, that got me another set of lines. "Wenn ich frech bin, kürzt Miss Melanie mir sofort empfindlich meine Freizeit." (translation: "When I'm being cheeky, Miss Melanie instantly shortens my free time noticeably.") 250 times. 

 

 

 

So that were ~15 hours of writing this weekend. My hand hurts, and you know things are bad when a school uniform enthusiast wants to get out of the school uniform because it feels so uncomfortable.

There are obviously better ways to spend the weekend. And I'm sure Miss Melanie did those things. ;-) 

For me, this was very hard and I hope for a bit of rest now, but ultimately I'm satisfied that I managed to complete the tasks.

What's next? Tune in next week. Same Bat-time. Same Bat-channel.

-Cornelia