LD's Guide to Japan

and it’s bad, but not really bad enough to keep me home from work, which is annoying.  Even if it were that bad, though, I might end up going to work anyways because taking sick leave is such a pain here.  You have to get a doctor’s note to take sick leave, which means you have to pay to go see the doctor, then you have to pay extra to get an actual doctor’s note from him/her, and after spending all that money it’s just not even worth it unless you have, like, leukemia or something.

Long story short: I’m at work today, and I’m not happy about it.