some kind of vague milestone

i can now read kana fast enough to keep up with all but the fastest songs in my current jpop rotation (and even if i could read those fast enough, i can't even SING them fast enough, *heh*). i also know enough kanji to read those as well for those songs that are fairly simple in vocabulary. that's pretty much all johnny groups; they're not very demanding compared to, say, bump of chicken who have very complex lyrics, and i cannot follow those. that doesn't really mean i KNOW those kanji (i don't know all the readings and meanings, especially not in combination), but i can read them in a common reading well enough to recognize the kanji at first glance and not lose my place in the song.

this makes me happy.

*whew*. どうもありがと, さよなら, romaji, it's been a slice.（thank you, and goodbye.)