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Letter #145: Christmas Present (2024)

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Good morning, Erin—and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! And yes, it is about to be the very merriest of Christmases, dear seonbae , as 2023 Erin finally gets the present she’s wanted most in the world: I’ve watched BTS in the Soop . (See? I told you I knew what I was getting you!) It’s been a long time coming, and…well, there’s going to be plenty more where this came from—because we’re only going to talk about the first season, today. Y’know, because we’ve got other Christmas things to get to! And because it means the chance for a nice surprise sometime in the future! …and because I ran out of time to watch the second season before Christmas like I’d intended to! Now, all in all, my 2024 has been pretty okay—but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that, yeah, not everything went quite how I would have liked it. I’ve been more stressed out in the last month or so than I’d realized, and I’m not quite living up to the improvements I’d made earlier in the year. So, as much as I watched this for your sake, it ...

Letter #144: At a Distance, Spring is Green

Good morning, Erin. I’m going to give you a moment to recover from just how stunned I know you must be, right now: we’re going to talk about a show you actually recommended to me .  I know. I know. Red letter day.  …potentially because all my usual K-drama sites were axed and therefore unable to provide me with the final few episodes of the weeklies I was watching and forcing me to reach back into my available backlog but the important thing is I’m watching your recommendation!!! That’s right, today we are going to chat about At a Distance, Spring is Green , which has been patiently waiting on my computer since one of your post-it note recommendation lists in…2022? (Aww, 2022. It was so…actually, wait—2022 mostly sucked. Though, I did get to wave hello to you every few days, so…on balance, I guess it was pretty good.) And now it’s time has come.  I don’t remember if you recommended it because you’d seen it or because you wanted to see it. And I certainly don’t know if yo...