Something that’s obnoxiously difficult for me is pacing myself, apparently. I always am inclined to try to cram as much as possible into the longest ‘marathon’ session possible, and then I don’t touch it for days/weeks/months. It does mean progress, sort of, but it’s ironically less than if I just do a little every day, because a low-intensity daily repetition often means more than a high-intensity session every once in a while in terms of memory retention.

Still haven’t quite got the hang of doing less per day to keep from burning out, though. I’m still only in Step 8 of Core 2000 for iKnow, because I kind of haven’t been doing much with it lately aside from very slowly working through my immense backlog of completed course reviews– I finally am down to 0 on that, and I’m going to try to keep it low while also getting back into new vocab.

Also haven’t really been reading lately. Basically life went sideways for a bit, and I’m starting a new job on Monday, and there’s a lot of other things I’m working on, so languages have been taking a backseat.

I did start using Skritter, though, after hemming and hawing about it for a long time since you have to get the subscription. Mostly I like it, though sometimes it doesn’t seem to want to recognize my stroke even if I do it correctly, which I can’t figure out why not. And I finally got a better podcast subscription app for my iPod, so I’ve been listening to Jpod101 lessons again (auto skipping 20-30 seconds in is brilliant, so I don’t have to listen to the intros all the time).

Anyway, I just haven’t updated in a while, and I may not update for some time again since I’m not really sure how the new job is going to affect my schedule, and I still have some outstanding things that need to get done asap before I can return to my regularly scheduled slow crawl to fluency. But I do want to get back to that, because I’m finding myself a little disturbed by how difficult it is to speak again, and I also just need to do more reading because I want to pick up something easy like manga to read without thinking “Ugh, this is going to take longer than I’d like” so much.