Things just stop being fun when you get a headache at 2pm and then you’re at work until 1am. Yes that’s a 14-hour shift there for me, starting at 10am. Gotta love it how the anime industry isn’t overworking people at all. And how most of the Japanese in the trade are actually content with how things are and don’t consider it weird at all that they work over 250 hours a month without getting paid for overtime.

Foreseeable future returns might make such an investment of time and stress worth it, but the obvious lack thereof (looking at my seniors) makes me doubt stuff. You know, on the “it might be better somewhere else” line.

Well, yesterday wasn’t exactly the epitome of pleasantness. It didn’t start worse than average. I managed to get up at an average time in the morning and I didn’t die jogging my morning laps either. I then picked up some students from some animation school coming to visit (it’s useful to be immediately recognizable in a crowd of Japanese for such tasks). I even disarmed a rage-bomb of the director as well.