Exactly what I will say if I ever visit 4chan.
I am actually wondering about this topic after I just started on my Master’s degree/Teaching assistantship/Researcher work or studies in my university. Despite the perceived notion that academics have it easy, I really found my time completely split. Work seriously sucks the life out of you, even though I do enjoy my work quite a bit. That is by the way a thing that I am really glad. I cannot imagine how some of you out there who are on a job that you clearly do not enjoy.
To give you an example of how a typical day of my first week went, here is the work that I did on Wednesday. I started work around 9 am. After that, I was working on my paper with my colleague for 2 hours before going to lunch. After that, I went to a seminar by Ronald E. Rice (which was excellent by the way, and he’s actually a top professor in USC: Santa Barbara, an university that is my top choice for phD studies) for 1 hour. Then, I was given some work and did my work all the way until 6.30 pm. After that, I went back home, finally reaching my house on 8pm.
This is now my question to anyone who can help me on this. What are some of the ways that you deploy to find some time to watch your anime or at least get some form of a fix? Pardon me now, as I am going to watch my Discovery channel before going back to work.
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There’s a reason why many anime watchers aren’t the physical type, impz…
rest in between work impzie
Well, there have been a couple of different ways i get my anime fix during the week. I leave my house about 6 in the morning get back around 6:30 in the evening (after heading to the gym). Like you said anime seems to be the furthest thing from my mind when i get back, and sometimes i just feel like relaxing. What i used to do was download everything i needed during the week, and try to dedicate at least 1 day in the weekend to watch everything. It worked for a while, however, watching on average 20 or so episodes of random shows in a day does start to get tiring. Now what i do is i try to watch maybe 1 or 2 episodes of something after work, and the remaining episodes i downloaded, watch on the weekend.
Well, if it doesn’t take 1.5 hours to get home, that is enough to watch and blog at least one episode of anime right there (depending on how fast you are).
Anime is what I use to procrastinate doing other things when I get home from work, around 9pm. Anime or watching some movie on dvd is usually the easiest of the options, since all I have to do is sit on the sofa and hit play. Everything else I could be doing would require more effort, plus since I never watch fansubs or blog about it, so I’m not under a time pressure to get to my anime. I can enjoy it when time permits.
Assuming one is following about five series at given time, that’s one episode per day. Half an hour to spend before you go to sleep, or just after you’ve had your dinner while your poor little stomach is still digesting, or whatever. Most people can find half an hour to spend per day on things they like to do. Sometimes people do have day so busy, you just want to go sleep as soon as you get home, or you need to start preparing for works for the next days. Then obviously there is no ‘ways’ that you deploy to find time to watch anime and only possible ‘ways’ you can manage it is to not watch anime.
I just set aside one part of the day to watch whichever series I’m currently viewing. For example, 30 minutes during your lunch break (if you have time to go home), during dinner, or even right before you go to bed. Setting aside a time dedicated to watching anime isn’t foolproof, but more often then not it works.
Usually I don’t have a problem finding time to watch anime after work, it’s just some days I have more time than others. My wife watches regular TV, and I’ll generally watch anime on my laptop while she’s doing that. Last night I was working at home until 9pm or so, but I still had time to watch half an hour of Manabi Straight before I went to sleep. For me, it’s a good way to unwind and decompress…and it really doesn’t take long to watch a 24 minute episode. It comes down to priorities though…one of the reasons I for the most part stopped blogging is it cut in to the time I had to watch anime.
Get a PMP like ARCHOS. that way, you can watch anime on the go. maybe that will help
I have almost no time to watch anime too.. Usually on weekdays I’m too busy/exhausted to do so(only managing to watch 1 or 2 episodes with my laptop on bed before sleeping). Hence I spend my weekends not going out, finishing up whatever i have to-do and then marathon-watch the week’s released anime all during sat/sun! haha ^^”~
Oh today, I met up with my uncle Kuan Yew, for lunch. We had a light two hour chat on the merits of a control-based government. After that refreshing session, I had to rush to the Proteomics centre to check on my western blotting results. It was quite tiresome. I managed to watch some anime on the way. See Impz, anime is not about effort, it’s about believing in the you who believes in me.
Work? School? Time-management? HA!
If you are truly passionate about anime, nothing stands in your way of seeking it!
*Cough*
Erm… I usually do it on a “as I feel like it” basis. There’s really no saying when I do have time or when I don’t. When I operate on a “per schedule basis” like when I go back to college each semester, I watch when I can and don’t watch when I can’t. For example, near the end of the semester when I have finals, I watch less anime than I normally do to study for these wretched exams.
It’s all about priorities and what’s important at the moment.
Actually Impz, I’m a researcher too (there are busy periods and less busy periods so don’t worry too much). For me, it’s just a matter of coming home and marathoning…
I paid a heavy price for it last year. I watched too many animes (and by that I mean waaay too many) and as the result my marks were far from what I wanted them to be. This year it will be only on weekends. There is no way in hell I let something like last year happen to me again. Watching anime is a lot of fun but those of us who go to University simply cannot take the risk.
My experience was pretty bad, hope the same doesn’t happen to you guys.
And on the final note, there is absolutely no way on earth to watch anime, work and study at the same time; unfortenately you can only choose one of them.
Well my job is 0700 to 1500 I have more than enough time to goof off especially since I have only a fifteen minute commute.
Since your ride home is rather long you can watch anime on a laptop. Then there is always the weekend. I usually have a plan for the day that is just calls for roughly 2 hours of free time to do whatever I want. If you have an exercise routine you can watch it then assuming you use a home gym or a real fancy one with DVD TVs on each machine. You could start the day early and watch some during breakfast. Heck I usually get up at 0530 so I can see whats on the news. Other than that time management means simply designating a period and see how long it can last. Then again since you hate being a conscript I can’t see how you can ever have a regimented schedule or daily routine.
I watch some on the train and some later on when I get home when I want to decompress.
(USCSB was my #1 choice for my Ph.D. too, but I got rejected from there
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The reason why watching anime during goshujin-sama’s commute, though he has an iPod that will allow him to do that, is not an option for him is because he is a piggy-piggy who likes to sleep during his commute to and from his work rather than do anything else.
Goshujin-sama, if you just eliminate all your other daily extra male-activities you do (cough-cough) like napping, you’d have more time to watch anime.
It only takes me 15 minutes to get home–that’s how close I am to my place of work.
Since I took up watching anime again I rarely watch TV anymore–for news there’s the internet, for entertainment what else but anime.
And then I have no night life (unless you count sitting in front of a PC at night Hahaha).
lol… nice blog here. I really have absolutely NOTHING to do BUT watch anime…man I have no life(at the moment)OK. Help me out here. I have checked out a bunch of animes in this site, and i cannot find one that i understand but Kaze no Stigma Naruto, and Bleach ofcourse. So again, help me. I like animes with action, not some love crap, only a few exceptions of course,so here’s my problem. I would really appreciate someone here giving me your reccomendation on an anime that I would most likely fall in love with and watch all day. So, can you reccomend me some animes that include swordfighting, fightin in ganeral, or just some action! Please, reccomend me an anime. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. I have nothing to do. HELP ME!!!!!
@RDrake: Hah! That’s a good one, but still I am quite disposed to going out since I am trapped inside the office cell for most of the time.
@Jinya: Can’t watch anime even if I want to.
@Youknowme: Hmmm, I cannot really download things that easily now as well, and I hardly have anytime to do so. the awful thing to add is that I do not like to leave the PC on for ages when I am not around since utilities can hurt me quite a bit at times.
It is tiring and watching anime now becomes quite a chore to watch, even though I still enjoy it a hell lot.
@Kabitzin: It takes 1.5 hours to get home. I am owned.
@Super rats: Heh, I generally enjoy gaming these days for some strange reason (Madden NFL 07 is surprisingly addictive). The fact that I constantly think about my thesis paper, my girlfriend who is wonderful and also watching the new cable TV channels that I just subscribed eats up a lot of my time too.
I guess the good thing is that it is making me keen to have more anime to view, though i have a terrible backlog that never ceases to end.
@It’s easy impz: Hmmm, the issue now is that I have so much things I wish I can do and it seems strange now that anime is always at the back of my mind. Sigh, I hope it doesn’t mean the end of anime viewing for me.
@Brikhaus: I generally like to watch my anime when it is released, but with work, it is hardly the way to go too. Sigh. I guess the proper reason is that anime is not the top first thing i want to do.
@Suguru: Arr, I usually like to sleep much more than the normal person. I usually knock out within 2 hours when I get back home, and 1 hour is taken up by relaxation and dinner. After that, I am so tired that the only thing I generally do is to lie on the bed reading some random manga/novel.
@Arcanes: Little cash, little resources. I even have an Ipod for it but I am ermm lazy to transfer ;_;
@Kaori Lolita: I actually go out very often these days in the weekend to catch up on the need to go out and have some loitering fun. Man, sacrifices, sacrifices.
@Tj: …
@Kyokii: I guess your last sentence sums it up. Hah, time management is something I am actually quite good at, considering how I actually managed to game/watch anime during my exam periods. Nevertheless, graduate studies seem to be something that requires more of my attention.
@Shin: ~_~;;; Marathoning seems so darn dry though. I no longer have the stamina to go on.
@Ben: Ouch there. I usually control my viewing and never allow one activity to affect my studies at all. In a way, I hold quite a tight grip on my time management. I somehow manage to watch anime and study at the same time (luckily being the cum larde after 4 years). Still, I really hope others do not suffer the fate you did. It is painful.
@Crusader: I don’t have a laptop T_T. It’s way too expensive for me, as much as I love to have it too. I don’t really want to get up early too, since I generally lack sleep and my work requires my energy most of the time.
@Jpmeyer:
aww. I am hoping to get in and I hope that I do have the capabilities to get in. It seems hard though. Watching it on the train is a no-no, since thirteensugars said the truth.
@Thirteensugars: *kicks baka 13sugars*
@Hayase: I so wish that my work place is so near, instead of the evil 1.5 hours required to get home. It’s rather depressing and I have no night life too. I don’t like night life anyway since it is more constructive to sleep
@Maya: hahaha, I wish that I am stuck in your position but for action shows, you can start with claymore, Tokyo Majin Gakuen, History’s strongest disciple Kenichi and also Basilisk for some good ninja fighting.
I has none jorb.
I am going to a university but i watch anime everyday for about 4 hours every day. I go to sleep at about 9 pm. My grades are also above average. For me, watching anime helps me relax for the tests.
Like I say… sleep less = more time to watch anime.
Seriously, though, I’m gorging myself on animes during off days. Just watch them whenever you can grab the time. And don’t download; it takes freaking forever.
@ tj: I don’t see how your uncle have the time to eat lunch with you on such an important occasion.
Must be a loving uncle!
Well, I’m not working yet, but I’m out of the house from 6am to around 7pm. xD But I usually stay up until midnight doing whatever I want (animewatchomg)and just squeeze in the necessities of life. Like… water and homework.
I used to have a lot of time to watch my animes since I got home around 6 and didn’t have much to do aftewards, so I would just watch different stuff daily. But now I have a lovely time consuming boyfriend who won´t let me have any individual activities hehe, I have to be with him almost all the time and when I am not with him I have to study for my japanese class, which I joined a month ago. So what I try doing is watching some episodes when I get home like at 12 p.m. or watch them while I change clothes after taking a bath and i’m ready to go out. When I see that my boyfriend is going to let me have a break I try to smash as many episodes as I can into that brief moment in time.
BOOHOO!!! (Sings the Mochalone song)!!!
@Marmot: Studying now? You should be glad to be not working for now. Working is a true pain in the arse sometimes but it’s mostly enjoyable.
@Liezl: haha, i used to be living your lifestyle during my university days but I guess work is a totally different pond altogether. I do get to have my anime fix on weekends like now though, so I am not complaining yet.
@Briar: hahaha, sleeping less will really kill me. Downloading is almost impossible nowadays, with all the crazy things happening. Sigh.
@Mintie: Wah, what in the world are you doing, going out so early and home rather late. You must be leaving a rather havoc life out there. Water? @_@ ?
Still, with the EPL (English Premier League) starting and cable TV shining bright, my night time for anime is eaten up by soccer T_T
@Aime: Be glad that your boyfriend that is time consuming because that means that he is caring and bothers a lot about you. I bet you will complain if he stop disturbing you at all, no?
@Wifey: BOO HOO YOU!
good time management is what’s needed. alot some time or maybe a day for your favorite past time, to watch Anime.
I don’t think I’d survive without watching at least some anime every day.
Of course, the reason for this is to decompress after a stressful day. This is why I react badly when my preference for low-impact, mindlessly fun anime is mocked or insulted. After a long day, I am not up for mental leaps of “deep thinking”.