Study day

I'm proud of myself. I actually did study most of the day. Since I woke up 14 hours ago, I spent about 4 hours doing things that were not studying. I drilled away with Anki the rest of the time. I have pretty intensively studied 266 kanji within the last day, and 495 flash cards total (some of them are just words). This is way past what the designers recommend. I also cut down the intervals a lot; instead of waiting 8+ hours between viewings of harder kanji (meaning ones that I either didn't know, or forgot/screwed up), I told it to show me again within half an hour. Even easy ones are set for a 2 hour interval. So it took a long, long time to get through the card deck, as I was constantly reviewing along the way. I'm at a 73% correct rate for reviews, so it's working as a cramming tool.

Perhaps it was the caffiene after having basically weened myself off of it for the last month or so, but I was actually getting really excited while studying. Every time I learned a new kanji well enough to get it right, it felt like a huge victory. If I had known about this program earlier, I could have been studying and reviewing like this (but at a more sane pace and schedule) all summer, and made huge progress. Alas. Anyway, in the realm of immaturity, I have a new favorite kanji: 脱, ね (nu) in ねぐ (nugu), which means to take off clothes. The left component of the character by itself means moon, the right component by itself means one's older brother.

So far Sinlaku has produced only very light rain, and not very much of it. The forecasts keep bumping the onset of the winds by more and more, but they also now forecast higher winds than they did previously: 57 mph, up from the previous 31 mph, which was down from the initial 46 mph forecast for today. The storm did strengthen; right now its sustained winds are 70 mph, with gusts to 85, so it's just shy of being called a typhoon again. All I know is that unless I get an email from the school saying otherwise, I'm not allowed to be late for my test tomorrow. :)