Also, I'm all for translation as an art form, but who did this? Archie Bunker? The Fonz?

僕はゆうべメアリーに振られた。
Mary gave me the ax last night.

That and a lot of sad dogs, and I'll take kaiju over sad dogs any fucking day of the week.

All I wanted was an image to convey ずっと and this is what I got.

Hmmmm. That does scan when you explain it that way. Thank you for the fresh eyes.

All this time I thought it was just me who thought this.

We set out for an engineering project, we literally had a meeting two weeks ago while the DM was sick to do the math.

And instead we shot up an Imperial starship.

And now we've jumped to the fucking Morlana system, which is not where we needed to be at all.

So naturally....

Meanwhile, aboard one of our ships, the young Quarren the party is escorting to a bunch of historic sites falls into a trance and we all know, as if by magic, that if we can do even a little damage to the hyperspace motivator of the Interdictor its grav wells will drop.

The reality: smash together a few jacuzzis and because, oh shit, an Imperial Interdictor just showed up and blockaded the system.

Cut to: My character parlaying his outer rim celebrity into a gentle escort for our 3 ships, 1 fighter and two heavily armed transports into the interdictor's hanger

Aaaaanyhorse.

Here are some of my attempts to internalize this grammar.

今、私の猫が眠がっている。
長い会議あとで、部長が詰まらながっていった。
長い会議あとで、私の部長がいつも詰まらながった。
ルームメイトだ田中さんは新しい本が届くときうれしがる。
そのスターウォーズのオタクは「アンドー」が好きじゃながる。

So many bear attacks.

毎日、もっと少しずつね

I think I see how we are getting there. But I'm also still feeling like a bit of a dunce from this one.

。。。

I think B's response is something like

仕事は　たいへん　なら　たいへんな　ほど　終わったとき うれしいです

Which doesn't scan naturally to me but is probably something close to: If work is hard, I'm very glad when it is done....or something like that.