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I haven't shopped for months. But I got something nice today. Tomorrow will be bad though, because I will have to go to the barber again.

They always warn me, “Girls' clothes are on the 2nd floor”. But I like to take a detour in the boys' section first.

Too many people make the mistake of going straight to the LGBT stores when they want to have a unisex look. Well you don't have to look like a lesbian!!! Just shop normal clothes that enhance the body features you like.

I rarely bought anything for boys, though. Sometimes the clothes have nice forms, but the color selections are always too poor. What's up with that? Boys deserve to be colorful, too. Last year I bought one white and one black in the boys' section. But I'm sick of the all the 100 shades of beige and gray. I don't want to see any more of that.

Someone is so gonna get fired by my review.

See you later.

I eat a lot of veggies per day.

Turns out I can’t drink tea either. I’m super sleepy.

I'm going to bed now. See you again soon.

hihi, how are you today?

I'm confused.

Let's say a journalism job description is to deliver news. Then one's private life shouldn't have anything to do with the news they deliver.

But when one sells more than just the news, but also a “personality”, then customers are rightfully entitled to complain about what they buy.

In Korean entertainment business, they have very distinctive definitions between “artist” and “idol”. Artists build their business on their talent of songwriting or singing. When these artists face personal life scandals, people can separate the art from the artist and don't care much. But when idols do simple things like smoking or having a boyfriend, it's a huge backlash from their own fandom. Because idols are selling personalities besides their singing and dancing, and they have the responsibility to keep up the illusion. No one forced them to make personality part of their business. They are free to choose which business model works best for them.

Now let's face it. Without extreme paranoia and total denial of human nature and the self, most “newsworthy” stories fall apart after 2 sentences, not to mention how they struggle to form coherent stories in the first place.

“Comedian crack down on opposition during wartime!” – Who doesn't? “Small countries with predatory neighbors decide not to be free speech absolutists!” – What else is new?

When they build those “principles” around themselves, it's not supposed to be realistic, or sustainable. It's about selling an aspiring personality. Those stories simply don't sell themselves just by the level of how divergent they are from normal life. Those stories sell when the audiences also get the sense of “this is below my morality!”.

Your audiences, whether come from naivety, or as denial as you are, therefore expect to be delivered both, interesting stories, and a respect for their dignity by association with you.

Maybe the writing business is not so lucrative without being a moral influencer. But making a decision between profit and the self is the problem of every job and not just journalism.

Feeling my life drifting aimlessly without coffee in the morning.