{"id":399,"date":"2011-01-17T01:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/life-in-japan\/life-in-japan\/?p=399"},"modified":"2011-04-24T23:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:54:23","slug":"well-hullo-thar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Well hullo thar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just letting you know I&#8217;m still here, still truckin&#8217;. To be brutally honest, I&#8217;ve spend the last week going to work, coming home, eating dinner, and sleeping. If I&#8217;m not sleeping, I&#8217;m working. If I&#8217;m not working, I&#8217;m sleeping. I know it&#8217;s sad and pathetic, and in the future I&#8217;m going to regret having wasted so much time just feeling bad for myself, but.. that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at right about now.<\/p>\n<p>I spent 5-6 months preparing for this test. I&#8217;ve spent 2-3 hours <i>a day<\/i> studying, every single day, for this test. I spend my 11 day vacation writing applications, pulling all nighters, and writing essays.<\/p>\n<p>And in one swoop, it&#8217;s all quite possibly for nothing. I can reapply in September and they&#8217;ll <i>evaluate<\/i> my status, but that guarantees nothing. I still may fail the exam even if succeed in getting the right to take it. Or just get flat out rejected again. In that case, I spent 6 more months of my life making no forward progress.<\/p>\n<p>So.. yeah. That about sums up why I&#8217;m spending my days feeling bad for myself. I&#8217;ll bounce back eventually.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I put a twitter-feed on the right-hand side, for anyone who feels like following my life on and even more stalker-ish basis than this journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just letting you know I&#8217;m still here, still truckin&#8217;. To be brutally honest, I&#8217;ve spend the last week going to work, coming home, eating dinner, and sleeping. If I&#8217;m not sleeping, I&#8217;m working. If I&#8217;m not working, I&#8217;m sleeping. I know it&#8217;s sad and pathetic, and in the future I&#8217;m going to regret having wasted so much time just feeling bad for myself, but.. that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at right about now.<\/p>\n<p>I spent 5-6 months preparing for this test. I&#8217;ve spent 2-3 hours a day studying, every single day, for this test. I spend my 11 day vacation writing <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=399\">Well hullo thar<\/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\/399"}],"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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}