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So, I kind of hate the higher ups at WGN right now. After twenty years on the air and without even a twenty-four hour warning for listeners, Kathy and Judy’s show has been canceled! Apparently they knew a few weeks ago, but my guess is that they didn’t want to mar the last few weeks of their show by telling people, or that they were told not to tell listeners. So instead listeners found out about it during John Williams’ show. It’s a couple of days later so I’m a little calmer, but really I’m pretty livid about it. I’m angry and insulted. I’ve been listening to WGN my entire life, and Kathy & Judy have been on since I was about eight years old, so basically my entire memory is filled with listening to them. Especially after Spike O’Dell (rightly) got such a fantastic send off last fall, and we knew about his retirement months in advance, this sudden cancellation is especially dismaying. Not that I listened to the full three hours of their show every day, but knowing they were there is something itself, yknow? What’s worse is that I love other people on WGN (like John Williams, Nick Digilio, Dean Richards, Brian Noonan, etc), so while I really wish I could boycott for a while, I know I won’t. It’s just, I don’t get it at all. And apparently the decision was made because they want to go in a “new direction”, which worries me. ageha_ya suggested that if they said that, perhaps that means they’re going to put Nick Digilio on during the day, which I hope wouldn’t happen, simply because I really enjoy him where he is now (and our mom will complain endlessly :P). Plus, I’m irritated that now there are no female show hosts on WGN. It’s all men. Utterly and completely disappointed in the higher ups there.
...or sort of…because it's really only me that cares, Ryuu no hanawazurai had its final chapter in the newest issue of LaLa. I’m sad it’s over, as I’ve been following it since it started, and because it wasn’t that long ago that 12 hisoku no palette ended as well. So now Kusakawa Nari has no series running currently, and the next issue of LaLa is only going to have a yomikiri. Not that her yomikiri are bad, just that I obviously much prefer series. On the upside, the series ended the way I was hoping it would. As you know…or don’t…likely, when I was first reading through the series I for some reason completely missed the point that Lucine was the intended End Game for Shakuya. I guess because Kwan is kind of presented more as the Main Guy to begin with, and I was reading so many series at the time (and my Japanese wasn’t as good), that it only started to occur to me slowly over time that maybe Lucine was the better choice. I wish for me it had been a case like Patisserie Mon, where it began to slowly dawn on me over the course of the firstfew volumes, that the story wasn’t about Tsuchhi and Otome at all, but Otome and Daimon. And whereas I think Kira intended it to be that way: a slow revelation on the part of the reader, in the case of RyuuHana I was just an idiot. When I went back and read the beginning a second time much more recently, I couldn’t believe how I could have missed it the first time around. It was obvious from the beginning, or at least by the end of volume one, that Lucine was End Game. So woo, I’m quite pleased with how it ended. I like that Shakuya tells the two of them that it’s not that she can’t love both of them, but that she wants to choose one of them. And then I enjoyed Lucine asking her, three months later, to show him how far the rose design had grown (all the way up her arm and under her collar bone) and she tells him not to worry about the Rindou (I can’t find a good translation that will mean anything to you, or to me, for that matter) pattern (which was Kwan’s) because it’s the rose pattern, which is still on her other arm, that she’ll carry all her life.
Also? My essay for the JET essay contest didn't get anything, which is too bad. I'm disappointed but not upset. I wasn't really expecting anything. I have a feeling I didn't tie my story in enough with school, or maybe I didn't cite something correctly. I dunno. They don't tell you. It would have been a nice feather in my cap at the end of my JET experience, but I already have so many things from this experience that I'll carry with me forever that it's no big deal. Am interested to see what the winning essay is all about, of course.
...or sort of…because it's really only me that cares, Ryuu no hanawazurai had its final chapter in the newest issue of LaLa. I’m sad it’s over, as I’ve been following it since it started, and because it wasn’t that long ago that 12 hisoku no palette ended as well. So now Kusakawa Nari has no series running currently, and the next issue of LaLa is only going to have a yomikiri. Not that her yomikiri are bad, just that I obviously much prefer series. On the upside, the series ended the way I was hoping it would. As you know…or don’t…likely, when I was first reading through the series I for some reason completely missed the point that Lucine was the intended End Game for Shakuya. I guess because Kwan is kind of presented more as the Main Guy to begin with, and I was reading so many series at the time (and my Japanese wasn’t as good), that it only started to occur to me slowly over time that maybe Lucine was the better choice. I wish for me it had been a case like Patisserie Mon, where it began to slowly dawn on me over the course of the firstfew volumes, that the story wasn’t about Tsuchhi and Otome at all, but Otome and Daimon. And whereas I think Kira intended it to be that way: a slow revelation on the part of the reader, in the case of RyuuHana I was just an idiot. When I went back and read the beginning a second time much more recently, I couldn’t believe how I could have missed it the first time around. It was obvious from the beginning, or at least by the end of volume one, that Lucine was End Game. So woo, I’m quite pleased with how it ended. I like that Shakuya tells the two of them that it’s not that she can’t love both of them, but that she wants to choose one of them. And then I enjoyed Lucine asking her, three months later, to show him how far the rose design had grown (all the way up her arm and under her collar bone) and she tells him not to worry about the Rindou (I can’t find a good translation that will mean anything to you, or to me, for that matter) pattern (which was Kwan’s) because it’s the rose pattern, which is still on her other arm, that she’ll carry all her life.
Also? My essay for the JET essay contest didn't get anything, which is too bad. I'm disappointed but not upset. I wasn't really expecting anything. I have a feeling I didn't tie my story in enough with school, or maybe I didn't cite something correctly. I dunno. They don't tell you. It would have been a nice feather in my cap at the end of my JET experience, but I already have so many things from this experience that I'll carry with me forever that it's no big deal. Am interested to see what the winning essay is all about, of course.