Review Mania

Tomorrow, I will complete the preliminary chart of volume one. This has been a long two weeks, but productive. I'm also finding that there is something nearly instinctual about element placement within the kanji. Eight times out of ten, my very first instincts about placement are correct. It feels good, almost like their speaking to me. Or perhaps, I've been staring at rows of kanji for too long and I'm losing my mind. Regardless, I am happy about this review session (remember, positive thoughts are important).

Now, I need to map out the remainder of this review session, which extends from Friday December 17 through Sunday December 26. Things rarely work out like I plan, but here is what needs to happen:

17-18 Reorganize all 1400 flashcards into chronological order. This is going to be a bitch.

19-25 Spend each day correcting 200 flashcards with revised stories.

26 Make flashcards for all primitives thus far covered.

Somewhere in there or in the foreseeable future, I need to:

1. Find a way to add the primitives and the A.L.L. to the chart.
2. Add stroke numbers.
3. Add revised stories to RTK.

These tasks will probably have to wait until the next review session. And as a final insane thought, and let me stress how nuts this is, I may, during the very final review session, return to flashcardexchange.com and cut/paste all my stories into digital flashcards. This was always my original intention with the web site. The first problem was that my inability to actually type the kanji. However, now that I can cut/paste them from my chart, that hurtle is out of the way. The other problem was time. But, since the final review session will occur once I'm done with volume 1, I'll have all the time in the world. As stated, this is nuts. But it can't ever hurt to review, besides, tools like this will come in handy as I review they kanji in the far flung future. Even when I become literate, it cannot hurt to review those rarely used kanji and remind my self how they relate to the more frequently used ones. Plus, I hope to continue learning new kanji even after I complete Heisig.