this is why I'm not in school

Progress is finally being made in my Japanese language skills. If you call checking out a jr. high level textbook "progress." Seriously, I did dive right into chapter 1 tonight and discovered almost immediately it's intended for Australian jr. high students. Yeah, I'm focusing on the really important stuff. For all intense purposes the hiragana make my eyes cross and my brain check out, so I think I'm pretty much going to ignore that whole written language stuff (I should have started months - no, years! - ago on that). But today I can introduce myself, tomorrow who knows!