Where the Hell Do the Quotation Marks Go, If They Do?[1]

So, how’ve I been?

Hard to say, busy though,

 Why “hard to say?”

 I don’t know, haven’t really thought about the “why” all that much, … too busy.

Actually, now that I think about it, that’s the reason; – I’ve been too busy to figure out how I’ve been.

But I can say it’s been a productive “busy” on a tactical level, perhaps even touching on the strategic, but, to get to the strategic (which is essential) I have to iron out a host of long neglected or inadequately attended tactical issues.

 Thinking about the discussion I ask myself, or perhaps, just comment to myself: “It’s hard to write an intrapersonal colloquy; how do I segment the components and identify the source?”

Where the hell do the quotation marks go, if they do?