I hate this!!

Today, the missle, which the North Koreans say is a satellite, flew over the skies of Japan and I found out about it after I woke up... I tried to follow up on reactions here, but there wasn't any significant ones...

okay... they shot it...

I also had to get information about some future stories so I could e-mail the info to Tokyo before tomorrow morning which will be the start of the weekdays in Tokyo.

These things I do all the time, but the most important thing that was taking all of my mind today was making papers about my staff's salary... I've already talked to my staff and they of course all want a raise. With the 24% inflation being the latest figure (the true number seems to be near the 30% mark, but there's no papers that I can show to the folks in Tokyo...), they all want something near that, but Tokyo will never grant such a big raise! I'm sure they will say I have to negotiate and convince them to take less than 10%, or even near the 5% mark... There's a 10-15% difference! How can I negotiate!!

I really hate doing this and I decided to become a reporter/correspondent of an organization and not a business person and even a manager so I wouldn't have to negotiate about salaries! I can't take my mind off, and I really pray that this will not derange my mental state, as I already feel some nervous depression coming around the corner... Oh, I really hate this!!