Brief update: I passed my test. 
My prize: 8 glorious weeks of temp work with a mediocre pay rate! Yay, me! 
But seriously, after being unemployed for quite a while now, it's reassuring to have a job, even if it's just a low-paying temp gig. I'm feeling a sense of unbridled joy that can only be expressed through the lilting voices of 48 or more Japanese schoolgirls singing in unison:
(Side note: projecting current trends forward, by the year 2020 every Japanese girl under the age of 18 will be a member of at least one idol group.)
My prize: 8 glorious weeks of temp work with a mediocre pay rate! Yay, me!
But seriously, after being unemployed for quite a while now, it's reassuring to have a job, even if it's just a low-paying temp gig. I'm feeling a sense of unbridled joy that can only be expressed through the lilting voices of 48 or more Japanese schoolgirls singing in unison:
(Side note: projecting current trends forward, by the year 2020 every Japanese girl under the age of 18 will be a member of at least one idol group.)
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i remember some moments with excruciating detail, like photos in an album fortunately i generally recall the good times more than the bad, or perhaps i have fewer bad times these days. another interesting reality for me and my mind is that there are huge swaths of my life where i have no recall at all. nada.
i have worked as a temp. it can be a very good thing to have a light at the end of the tunnel that isn't a train approaching but still represents the end of the line.