After all

The test is over. It was perhaps the hardest test I have ever taken, harder even than Introduction to Biochemistry in my first ever undergraduate year. I took the test at Tokyo University's Komaba Campus, which looks pretty from the front but turns into the ever predictable 1960s mess of half-arsed, cut-price, fake-Bauhaus cubes that scar most campuses in most countries.

After the test I went for a pint with a colleague. Yesterday I enjoyed myself and indulged in the English language by picking up The Brothers Karamazov again and listening to a ton of recently reactivated English music (the Undertones, Elastica, The Cardigans, Cornershop).

But I have still studied. I even reviewed stuff in both my grammar book and picked up my list of all the kanji.