Having cake, eating it too...

[felis_ultharus]

A quiet couple of days. This is my first real week to rest since the start of the semester. When you factor in how hectic the little spaces between semesters have been, this is really my first week to rest since starting Grad school.

I've been writing. I've been ironing out problems in the novel I couldn't focus heavily on while doing essays. I think I'm still on-track for my self-imposed November deadline.

I've been reading. I finally got around to a volume of Yami no Matsuei I've had for ages -- volume 9. Matsushita's characters, her stories, and her art never cease to astonish me. I can't believe that series was cancelled.

Now I'm on to something a little more hardheaded, Joel Bakan's famous book about corporations. I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Milton Friedman more than I did.

I also didn't realize that in most industrialized nations, it's actually illegal for a corporate president to use the corporation's money for anything besides making a profit -- when a corporation works towards environmental initiatives and community services for any reason other than PR, they're considered by law to have cheated the shareholders, who are the actual owners.

In happier news, I baked a cake today. For no reason.

Comments

[maidenofirisa.livejournal.com]

mmmmm I like cake....

Being able to do something besides school is really awesome. I still have two exams left...

Yami No Matsuei really is an awesome serie. I can't remember if it was you or Jen who got lend me the first one a few months ago... Anyway I've bought a few of them since.

I could comment about the corporation part but I've been studying economics for the past few hours and I'm starting to be able to argue why such a law would make sense.... Just don't ask. I'm tired and the school books have taken over my brain.

[(Anonymous)]

I can believe it either, it's a great series but that's the way marketing is, sad but true. It might be picked up again in the future. It's happened before, though rarely. (I wanted to look up the info on the Hakusensha site but I forgot that the computers at work can't display Japanese... when I get home I guess)

Yay cake! I like cake... though I'm still from yesterday. I don't think I'll eveer eat again... ;)