{"id":386,"date":"2010-12-06T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/life-in-japan\/life-in-japan\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-04-24T23:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:55:05","slug":"one-test-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"One test down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaaah.. tiiiiiiiiiiired. Been a long day. Went to bed late, woke up early, rode a train for 3 hours (studying vocabulary all the way!), made copies of past graduate school entrance exams, then took a Japanese test. Left my house at 7:20am, got back to my house (to head out to dinner) at 6:50pm. After heading out to a book store and a cafe to study, it&#8217;s now 12:30am and I&#8217;ve still got to write my monthly reports for my company.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I should be getting to that, but.. you know, it&#8217;s not exactly exciting. There&#8217;s also the extra fun part that my boss doesn&#8217;t actually <i>read<\/i> my monthly reports. I just have to submit them (for mysterious reasons). Though knowing I can sleep when I&#8217;m finished is a definite draw!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have too much to say, actually. Just wanted to mention my test is finished, and now I can work on preparing for university entrance exams. Woohoo! The only problem we&#8217;re facing now is.. what do I do if I don&#8217;t pass the test? I&#8217;m not being negative here, just realistic. There are so many points of failure that if everything doesn&#8217;t go perfectly (language test, research proposal, entrance exam, interview), things may not work out. So do I kill time and wait for the next time around, or just move on and find a new job actually utilizing my language skills?<\/p>\n<p>I just wish I had someone to talk this through with. In lieu of that, I ramble to myself late at night on my own website. Blah blah. Everyone else I talk to just says <b>&#8220;YOU&#8217;LL DO GREAT!!!! YAY!!!! GO!!! IT&#8217;S NO PROBLEM AT ALL!!!!&#8221;<\/b>. Though I appreciate the support and enthusiasm, I don&#8217;t want to talk about if things go right. I can do that by myself. I want to be constructive and talk about alternative plans.<\/p>\n<p>But now I&#8217;m just complaining, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to Christmas movies! And, supposedly, my stupid monthly reports. 7 days till cookie extravaganza!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaaah.. tiiiiiiiiiiired. Been a long day. Went to bed late, woke up early, rode a train for 3 hours (studying vocabulary all the way!), made copies of past graduate school entrance exams, then took a Japanese test. Left my house at 7:20am, got back to my house (to head out to dinner) at 6:50pm. After heading out to a book store and a cafe to study, it&#8217;s now 12:30am and I&#8217;ve still got to write my monthly reports for my company.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I should be getting to that, but.. you know, it&#8217;s not exactly exciting. There&#8217;s also the extra <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=386\">One test down!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}