To anyone coming to Chicago to take the JLPT, I hope the weather is better tomorrow than it is now. It's freezing, raining, windy, and icy. That's the Four Dwarfs of the Apocolypse, I think.
I'm not going to get too worked up over this, I don't think I am going to do to well on the reading.
More importantly, I was thinking about why I want to pass. It has something to do with how others view me, and the perceived status, more than learning Japanese. If I take that out of the equation, it becomes less stressful, and more fun. I have to learn to stop thinking of what I will gain by passing. But I do that all the time. I think of getting a good job, and the next thing I know, I am imagining my new loft and Audi, or whatever. It's all craving.
Anyway, back to studying.