Max

Total price of required books (new): $200 ($150 + $50, ok ok, probably better than most peoples bills this term but that $200 would have wrecked me a little a bit)

Total ... (used, at school bookstore or competing private textbook reseller down the street): $130 (~$30 + $100)

Total ... (purchased through Powells and eBay): $18 ($7 at the Burnside Powells + $4 for the book on eBay and $7 to get it here this week).

Now, admittedly with the $150 book I got a much lower price because I bought the fourth edition. But it's a book on psychological research methodology (the 4th edition was published in 2003) and the professor is absolutely fine with people using the 4th edition -- but the university bookstore and it's "competitor" down the street only stock the 5th edition (for some reason). Also, this same book had a $70 eBook option (no one will be reselling that! buy this and you may as well've bought a used copy then defaced it completely during the term).

So pretty much fuck all ya'll in the textbook publishing business.

...but if you try sometimes you might find you get something you don't care for at all. That you can't get out of your head. That never just dies the death it seemed to have thoroughly preordained.

Just some memory of one night before passing out, too many drugs to count. Some extensive eye contact while mutually safe in our redoubts, no doubt.

And a telenovela about a Spaniard lothario stalker who's obsession was outlandish and your smile when I reached for your hand.

Lets watch Hackers sometime.