I spent my first quarter of college trying to learn German in a room with constant jackhammering outside the window.

Wow. I had the benefit of a construction-free campus while spending two summer semesters in intensive reading German, and got almost nothing accomplished other than deciding "German is much harder than Latin."

And I am now eagerly awaiting the next installment of the genderfuck AU,

Eee, thank you! I think I'm going to write the whole thing and then post it all at once, rather than in bits... It's kind of more satisfying that way, I've found :)