monbushou, fuck.

San Francisco is an ass. I had asked the san fran consulate about the monbushou scholarship deadline for this year, and they said, "yeah, probably about the same as last year". It's a month earlier... and the interviews are mid-week.

I'm gonna have to play hooky in early june, hop on an airplane, put on a suit, and smile wide enough and keigo humbly enough to convince them that I'm the man they want to educate in the ways of Japanese law.

Enough blog entries, I gotta get reading. (my j-blog SHOULD spring back to life within the next couple of days)

update-o:

(IN SF) Japanese exam = thursday June 8
Interview = friday June 9
(airplane noise)
(IN Tokyo) Japanese equivalent of the LSAT = Sunday, June 11
LSAT = Monday, June 12

That means that if I want to take both of those tests, I've got to hop on a plane directly after the interview, fly back to tokyo, take a nap, and then go take the J-lsat. 20 hours later, it's english language LSAT time. 20 hours after that, I'll probably be standing in front of a bunch of very bored students again.
I sort of need them both: the japanese one as a testament to language skill and my worthiness of admissions to a japanese law school in spite of my a non-japanese, non-law background; the english one, in case things don't work out, and I need to shift to plan B, american Law school (not the morning after pill).