Jan. 17th, 2012 01:38 pm
*pokes gingerly*
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kirataelOkay, let's try this.
1. The review book I'm using for the Kanken is divided into 'steps'. I'm doing three a day to be done by this Sunday, so I can spend next week taking practice exams. Every day, usually around the time I finish the first workbook, I think "maybe today I can finish four steps". Each one takes me about 50 minutes (most of this is taken up by battling with anki), so this is totally doable.
Except...except, every afternoon I get started on the third one and...ugh. Translate some vocab...read fic...make anki flashcards...check Ravelry...practice stroke order...gaze vacantly into space...repeat. The third step of the day always takes at least 2-3 times as long.
Point of fact, I should be working on it right now.
A fourth step? Ugh ugh ugh.
2. I'm glad my supervisor lives with his mother, since he has some odd ideas about nutrition.
Supervisor: At the winter festival, this Sunday?
Me: Yes?
Supervisor: There will be free soba for lunch.
Me: Oh, good.
Supervisor: But only soba. You'd better bring rice ball.
Right. We're only going to be fed a bowl of carbs and salt, so I should remember to bring another ball of carbs wrapped around a tablespoon of fish.
1. The review book I'm using for the Kanken is divided into 'steps'. I'm doing three a day to be done by this Sunday, so I can spend next week taking practice exams. Every day, usually around the time I finish the first workbook, I think "maybe today I can finish four steps". Each one takes me about 50 minutes (most of this is taken up by battling with anki), so this is totally doable.
Except...except, every afternoon I get started on the third one and...ugh. Translate some vocab...read fic...make anki flashcards...check Ravelry...practice stroke order...gaze vacantly into space...repeat. The third step of the day always takes at least 2-3 times as long.
Point of fact, I should be working on it right now.
A fourth step? Ugh ugh ugh.
2. I'm glad my supervisor lives with his mother, since he has some odd ideas about nutrition.
Supervisor: At the winter festival, this Sunday?
Me: Yes?
Supervisor: There will be free soba for lunch.
Me: Oh, good.
Supervisor: But only soba. You'd better bring rice ball.
Right. We're only going to be fed a bowl of carbs and salt, so I should remember to bring another ball of carbs wrapped around a tablespoon of fish.