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

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

*spots ninja jenjoou sneaking through the thread anonymously*

I'd love it if it were picked up in the future. But it's an old series in Japan, and do Japanese companies ever take Western sales into account for that kind of thing...?

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Japanese companies but there was a Korean series called INVU which had been cancelled at vol. 3 in Korea but because of it's popularity in the West, they started work on the final, fourth volume. So it's not impossible. And sometimes in Japan series that were cancelled in one magazine were picked up by another. I wouldn't hold my breath but it's not impossible.