Book Stores, School, Going Somewhere That Goes Nowhere
Book stores. I need to train myself to stay away. They suck me in, they do, and now I don't have a job. I can't affoard getting sucked in anymore.
I'm in Victoria now, it's nice. I haven't started classes yet. I had been walking a lot- until my computer gets here (not even going to try and pass that off as a coincidence)- and I've familiarized myself with the area, but not with the tranist system yet. I'm going to ask my grandparents to buy me a bus pass in May, and in the first week before my classes start I'll explore around on some busses. Bring a book with me, see how things are and what bus I catch to go where, and where the closest stop from there is for another interesting bus.
Explore downtown.
Et cetera.
Don't actually need a bus pass yet, though, unlike in May when I'll be starting school! Eee, very exciting, even though it's only one class, and it's a grade 11 level course =\. Upgrading my math, and I decided that, while I may have passed grade 11 pre calc, I sure as hell retained nothing, so I'm going to retake it before I take grade 12 pre calc, and then some actual.. ridiculous mathey courses after that.
The plan is to take some physics. We'll see how that goes. I really have no idea. I don't know what I'm going to do once I have taken physics things, I have no planned physicsey career. I'm doing this as a part of some kind of "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time" syndrome.
Anyway. Book stores. They draw me in, but usually it's an actual book store that does it. The first week I was here, I spent about $100 on books-- terrible being that I have no job at the moment. But, that aside, the other day I went to get some faxing done and there was one of those discount book kiosks set up in the middle of the mall. You know the type, there's two or three tables with books laid out on them. I was, first, just glancing over the childrens books to see if they had anything funny like "The Mole Sisters" I could joke-gift someone, but then I got to the other side of that table and ...
... there were two different Johannes Kepler biograpies. I was like, WHAT ARE THOSE DOING HERE. The prices were good, so I was going to get them, but the more I looked over everything else the more I .. found other things I also wanted. I spent $56, and I'd even put one of the Kepler books back.
The haul:
- Kepler's Witch
- The War of the Worlds
- Before hte Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
- Nineteenth Century Fashion In Detail
- Brian Froud's Goblins!
- King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior And Mythic Hero
The last four of which are all hardcover. To give you an example of what motivated a splurge like this, Kepler's Witch has a $19.95 price normally-- I got it for $7. Goblins is ordinarily $39.95, I found it for $12.
But that doesn't change the fact that I really, really need somoene to follow me around with a stun gun to keep me AWAY FROM BUYING MORE BOOKS.
I'm in Victoria now, it's nice. I haven't started classes yet. I had been walking a lot- until my computer gets here (not even going to try and pass that off as a coincidence)- and I've familiarized myself with the area, but not with the tranist system yet. I'm going to ask my grandparents to buy me a bus pass in May, and in the first week before my classes start I'll explore around on some busses. Bring a book with me, see how things are and what bus I catch to go where, and where the closest stop from there is for another interesting bus.
Explore downtown.
Et cetera.
Don't actually need a bus pass yet, though, unlike in May when I'll be starting school! Eee, very exciting, even though it's only one class, and it's a grade 11 level course =\. Upgrading my math, and I decided that, while I may have passed grade 11 pre calc, I sure as hell retained nothing, so I'm going to retake it before I take grade 12 pre calc, and then some actual.. ridiculous mathey courses after that.
The plan is to take some physics. We'll see how that goes. I really have no idea. I don't know what I'm going to do once I have taken physics things, I have no planned physicsey career. I'm doing this as a part of some kind of "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time" syndrome.
Anyway. Book stores. They draw me in, but usually it's an actual book store that does it. The first week I was here, I spent about $100 on books-- terrible being that I have no job at the moment. But, that aside, the other day I went to get some faxing done and there was one of those discount book kiosks set up in the middle of the mall. You know the type, there's two or three tables with books laid out on them. I was, first, just glancing over the childrens books to see if they had anything funny like "The Mole Sisters" I could joke-gift someone, but then I got to the other side of that table and ...
... there were two different Johannes Kepler biograpies. I was like, WHAT ARE THOSE DOING HERE. The prices were good, so I was going to get them, but the more I looked over everything else the more I .. found other things I also wanted. I spent $56, and I'd even put one of the Kepler books back.
The haul:
- Kepler's Witch
- The War of the Worlds
- Before hte Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
- Nineteenth Century Fashion In Detail
- Brian Froud's Goblins!
- King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior And Mythic Hero
The last four of which are all hardcover. To give you an example of what motivated a splurge like this, Kepler's Witch has a $19.95 price normally-- I got it for $7. Goblins is ordinarily $39.95, I found it for $12.
But that doesn't change the fact that I really, really need somoene to follow me around with a stun gun to keep me AWAY FROM BUYING MORE BOOKS.