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icepixieThe Road to Hell, Or at Least to Spending Nine Dollars on Used Books (Two of Which Are at Least Going to Be Useful for Comps)
Step 1: Go to entirely different store that's in a strip mall-style shopping center.
Step 2: Coming out of said store, spy used bookstore you haven't seen before.
Step 3: Decide to "just look"; walk over to store.
Step 4: See a kitty in the window.
Step 5: Say, "Ooooh, kitty!" out loud. Don't feel as embarrassed as this should make you feel.
Step 6: Go into store, pet both kitties (one of which is a really pretty blue-eyed Himalayan/Ragdoll), get in conversation with owner, and end up buying three books, which at least were relatively cheap.
It's not rent or utilities or groceries that are going to break me in this town, oh, no. It's BOOKS.
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Also, in the HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME category, I just discovered that Nutella spread on a pizzelle is about the closest we're going to get to a crepe over here, and it's AMAZING.
Step 1: Go to entirely different store that's in a strip mall-style shopping center.
Step 2: Coming out of said store, spy used bookstore you haven't seen before.
Step 3: Decide to "just look"; walk over to store.
Step 4: See a kitty in the window.
Step 5: Say, "Ooooh, kitty!" out loud. Don't feel as embarrassed as this should make you feel.
Step 6: Go into store, pet both kitties (one of which is a really pretty blue-eyed Himalayan/Ragdoll), get in conversation with owner, and end up buying three books, which at least were relatively cheap.
It's not rent or utilities or groceries that are going to break me in this town, oh, no. It's BOOKS.
*
Also, in the HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME category, I just discovered that Nutella spread on a pizzelle is about the closest we're going to get to a crepe over here, and it's AMAZING.
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Date: 2008-08-29 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-29 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-29 03:30 pm (UTC)WORD.
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Date: 2008-08-29 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-31 12:07 am (UTC)At the end of the semester, if you have any textbooks that you KNOW you won't use anymore (doubtful in grad school, but it could happen...), make sure you do an ISBN search to see how much you could get for your book online. The UT Bookstore often pays bottom-dollar, but if there's a flag out for the textbook because Podunk U in North Dakota needs some copies, you can sell the book for a lot more money online!
I paid rent with the money I got off of selling my hated econ grad school textbooks :D
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Date: 2008-08-31 02:47 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm probably going to keep a bunch of my books, but the ones I don't, I'll probably just trade in at McKay. (Seeing as mine are all pretty much novels, not textbooks... :))
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Date: 2008-08-31 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-31 02:49 am (UTC)