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”.

@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!

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!

@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.

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).

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.

(USCSB was my #1 choice for my Ph.D. too, but I got rejected from there )

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.