"I get around like 寿司 on a 回転"

It's 12:30, which is past the time when I normally try to go to bed, but unfortunately I had a one-turned-four hour nap this afternoon, so I'm not really sleepy yet...

Today's meeting with HNF (the foundation that gives me my scholarship) went quite well. My main anxiety was that I don't feel like my Japanese has improved sufficiently since last time, almost five months ago, but this time, rather than being alone with the foundation staff there were two other scholarship recipients (from Ireland and Norway) there, and my Japanese was as good as one, and better than the other. They were also both at about their ~5 month mark, so I felt decent about it. The big boss guy's way of speaking was as hard to understand as I recalled, but I didn't have any major difficulties, which is in fact a step up from last time. Hooray!
The most ridiculous (on my part) moment was when he (the boss) asked one of the other students, then the other, how many kanji they knew. Having recently sunk, liek, 100+ hours into RTK, I was, in my head, all "ask me ask me ask me ask me," but he didn't. But then, a few minutes later, he did! So I had the satisfaction of saying that I can write and usually understand (if not always give the yomikata) about 2060 characters. Oh yeah.

Today's the first day in a long time that I didn't get a lot of studying done. I did review via SRS and entered two chapters of Tobira into Anki, but no strictly new material, besides a couple kanji not in RTK that I encountered, looked up, and entered into the RTK SRS. Ah well, that's okay. Meeting with HNF was surprisingly tiring.

Tomorrow is supposed to be really warm ("Around 17°...Did I just think in Celsius? ああ、アメリカ人失格だ! D:"). If it's sunny I think I'll have to spend some time outside. Hm. Inokashira Kouen? Just biking to campus? We'll see...

Besides all that,
使う
使用する
利用する
用いる
Really, Japanese Language? This is getting out of hand.