２級 is over

::wrote this on my keitai going to work today::

so the mayor of takahagi just rolled down his window as i was jaywalking across the street to say good morning and ask how the JLPT went. good question. btw the mayor does not drive but is driven in a blacked out Toyota Crown Royal Saloon, nice. very VIP (which japanese tuners ruin by pronouncing "bippu" for some reason.)

so yeah, the test. second time around, and somehow it was even more fun than last time. umm, its hard to really tell how i did. last year was ridiculously hard and depressed me for like a week because of how poorly id done. and then i turned out to have only missed the passing line by 5 percent. this year felt a lot better, but i dont know if thats because im actually better than last year, or if i was just expecting and prepared to take the pain (in other words, i lubed up properly). one thing im proud about is the listening section. it was my best section last year, and i definitely nailed it this year. there were only a few questions i was even unsure about. that especially felt good because a lot of my friends thought that was the hardest section. of course they definitely did better than I did on the other 2 sections.

so, it was tough, but i only needed to do 5 percent better than last year. we'll see.