Three things that made today awesome =
My textbook for my Theories of Social Power class is $80. At both Whitcoulls and Paper Plus (New Zealand’s versions of Borders/Barnes and Noble), it would be $84 dollars. Yeah, textbooks are expensive everywhere but THIS BOOK IS ONLY 165 PAGES. Super small, like as big as The Little Prince or Tuesdays With Morrie. Anyways, I am a total nerd but basically, we will be reading every chapter in that book and I learn better when I’m reading from an actual book/a printed version of an article (instead of reading something off my computer screen). So yesterday, I went to all the used bookstores around Dunedin and I couldn’t find it. But my professor said that she would put one hardcopy of the book on reserve in the library. SO THIS IS MY PLAN: Plan A = I could borrow book from library, take notes, save trees. Plan B = OR I could just copy the whole textbook. It cost 10 cents per paper and since these pages are small, I could copy two pages on one sheet of paper. 165 pages = 83 sheets of paper = $8.30… I mean, I don’t know if I’ll go with Plan B (because honestly that’s a lot of time spent at the copy machine and a lot of paper/trees) but I feel darn pretty clever for coming up with that solution by myself.
Got home from my first class and I was thinking about going for just a regular nutella sandwich (= nutella smothered over a warm, slightly-toasted piece of “multigrain-honey” bread). I had been eating this a lot this week. Basically, my diet has been revolving around these sandwiches – simple and tasty. But today I decided to spice things up: Cut up an apple + Sprinkle with brown sugar + Mircowave for 30 seconds + Add to regular nutella sandwich. Yeah, I know, THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA!!!!
Finally conquered the internet in the library… and subsequently, on the rest of campus. So now when my internet doesn’t work in my flat (which is often = lame), I can bring my computer to the library and figure out my life. Not that life is terribly hard to figure out, but having access to Google, email, and Wikipedia is really nice. (Plus, I’ve got to get familiar with the library’s online database for paper-writing and researching purposes, etc etc.) It’s SOO NICE to be able check my email before midnight.
Cheers.
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