The test is coming
2017-Nov-30, Thursday 15:39
This Sunday is the JLTP, and I am...prepared? I haven't studied explicitly for it, but I've kept up studying Japanese. Two years of tutoring at this point, I read a daily blog written in Japanese, I play Japanese games, I follow some Japanese people in Twitter, I listen to Japanese podcasts, I do vocab flashcards...I don't study as hard as I could, but that's because I have other hobbies. Playing games in Japanese is a way to combine them. I've taken a couple practice tests, and I did badly on one and well on another, so I'm going into the test with the assumption that I'll have a bad day and it'll go terribly, which is the recipe for a self-fulfilling prophecy. I guess all I can do is my best.
I've upped our savings again, to the point where our savings rate is something like 33%. The tax bill coming up for a vote has reminded me of the conclusion that Piketty came to in Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that the twentieth century was an anomaly and the future would be a regression to the mean that humanity has held for the overwhelming majority of world history, where a tiny minority of people have all the wealth, there's a small class of people below them who support them, and everyone else lives in abject poverty. Most of my financial decisions are driven by the fear of that happening. And the fortune over time that has led to the ability to save that much.
That said, I just agreed to a friend's suggestion we try for the ticket lottery at Next and I'm probably going to get tickets for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
schoolpsychnerd and I to see the CSO's performance of the score accompanying a screening of Star Wars. I try not to be too much of a miser, and sometimes I even succeed.
I've upped our savings again, to the point where our savings rate is something like 33%. The tax bill coming up for a vote has reminded me of the conclusion that Piketty came to in Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that the twentieth century was an anomaly and the future would be a regression to the mean that humanity has held for the overwhelming majority of world history, where a tiny minority of people have all the wealth, there's a small class of people below them who support them, and everyone else lives in abject poverty. Most of my financial decisions are driven by the fear of that happening. And the fortune over time that has led to the ability to save that much.
That said, I just agreed to a friend's suggestion we try for the ticket lottery at Next and I'm probably going to get tickets for
schoolpsychnerd and I to see the CSO's performance of the score accompanying a screening of Star Wars. I try not to be too much of a miser, and sometimes I even succeed.
