me: …so I said, bureaucracy. That's what I think German vocabulary excels at. I can't even think like, what's even the word we use? agendamento? for me it will forever be a Termin. I need to call during Sprechstunde to make Termine for the Plenum next Quartal, whichever language I'm using the German comes automatically…

daughter: and pain.

me: pain?

daughter: a rich vocabulary of pain, yes. Weltschmerz. Lebensmüde. Fernweh. Seelenschmerz…

me: :thonking: Wanderlust. Heimweh…

daughter: that's what we have. paperwork, and pain