well my lazy butt is finally running out of excuses not to be going to textfugu and learning Japanese. so we are back to hirgana, which fortunately has a pattern of sorts to it so its not that hard to learn the pronunciations. it appears we are gonna focus on memorizing the symbols a little later. but even though i'm writing this blog to track how productive i'm being i'm still taking actual notes. i even bought a really cool looking binder(a picture of which i'll post sometime), that i figured would make it easier to separate chapters out and add more paper to particular chapter if needed. but i feel i'm doing a good job with this simple pronunciations so that gives me confidence to keep going forward.