It's feeling like a 'routine' day...

[alexpgp]

Once we got home yesterday, Natalie found out that one of the books she bought was not for any of her courses. It's a $70 book, and I am completely flummoxed as to why (aside from the angle of, say, graft) any book on social science would cost so much. (Heck, I paid about as much for two volumes of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming.)

Sleep came and went, and I was off to work. The shift went quietly, and I've managed to finish an assignment besides what I do on the shift. (Which reminds me, I need to send it off.) Upon returning home, prior to sitting down at the computer, I went to the Pearland court building to deliver a fine payment for Natalie and then stopped by the Wal-Mart to put off doing laundry for a day or three (I needed the clothes, too!).

Dinner is cooking right now, and I suppose I should devote time to sending off the "side" translation before going off on any wild tangents. Or maybe I'll save the tangents for a quiet time during tonight/tomorrow's shift.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Dr. Somebodyorother's Law says that the more useless a book is, the more it costs ;)

[annathyst]

Textbook prices are an absolute outrage - bills of $300 and higher for a four-class schedule are common, and the prices keep going up. It's easy to blame Follett, who operates a large number of campus bookstores, but the publishers certainly can't dodge all the blame. It's a perfect market for them - we, as students, have no real choice other than to buy the texts, so they can set the prices as high as they want and still sell...