180 Lit Passed!

It's happened! I received the good news last night, so it's time to make the official announcement!

180 Lit passed passed on 6/22/2015 with 13 errors (98.6%)!

I'll tell you what, I was in quite a negative spot before this happened, with the previous weeks and months having me convinced that I'd simply never pass a 180 Lit test (at 98%, no less) so long as I was at this school. Nearly all Lit tests were of the congressional record variety, meaning never-before-heards words in hard-to-understand sentences. THIS! THIS was what I needed!
A good old-fashioned, straightforward story about a druggie hospital worker who was stealing medications!!! Scandalous!

As soon as the test wrapped up, I sat back in my chair and knew -- just KNEW that I had passed it! I'll tell you what helped me get to this point, though. It was "slowing down to speed up." At the start of the semester I was just focusing on QUANTITY of high-speed dictation, rather than QUALITY! So I started slowing down the dictation material just to make sure I got it all and improved my accuracy like never before!

I don't want to keep flippantly saying, "Oh, I'm a messy writer." No more!

The timing of the test was also the very same day I got my RPR JC pass results, so it was two amazingly good things in one day! I just enjoyed the traditional celebratory sushi dinner last night, and the good news also comes at a perfect time because...

I'm going on vacation for the next three weeks! You heard right! My first lengthy vacation from school since I started the program. It's a back-to-back family reunion in Barcelona followed by a solid week in France!

Part of me does still think that I'll only realistically qualify for the CSR by passing the RPR, and with one down and a 180 Lit already passed, I'm going to jump at the opportunity to do it once it goes online. Hopefully before the summer is out!

Well, that's all for now. It may be quiet on the frontier for a while, but just know that I'm still chugging away and have only those bastard 180 4-Vs to test before I'm in qualifiers.
Which will come first? Qualifying through school? Or qualifying through RPR?

We'll see!