Crazed Internet Shopping

[x_los]

I was irritably picking out textbooks on Amazon.com, wondering why Japan: A Modern History for my graduate reading class was 20$ used, whether I'd get in in 4 or 14 days, and why I had to buy a poetry book (Mark Levine's Enola Gay) by someone I've never heard of offline for a class with a readinglist already two pages long (An entire book of Derrida in one week. Ridiculous expectations considdering we do have other classes.) when I gave in to the siren call of internet spending. For me that means spending two dollars on George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, her achingly long novel basically about Disraeli. I kind of am not impressed with myself anymore. I'm way too damn predictable.

I got a new phone, finally. And Amadeus, the special edition DVD was on sale at FYE across from the Cingular Hut for 12$. So of course I did the inevitable. Now I have to sell my old VHS copy. Eh, so I was over-generous with myself, this week's been ridiculous. If I'm ever in a history lecture where no one can name the phases of Rome's government or what Hadrien's Wall separates again I will drop out and ice fish professionally.

Comments

[blinkidybah.livejournal.com]

Amazon has forever ensured I'm not buying textbooks from them again. Damn things haven't shipped a week after ordering. >(

Two pages of reading lists is ridiculous, though.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Ew, really? Thanks for the warning, I'll lower my expectations accordingly. Oh my loving god, I need to show you this list, too. Two pages sounds bad, but the reality is so bad it's funny again. There's two big books of Freud scheduled two weeks in a row, and then some Lacan, and then, making it's reappearance on the American stage, Crime and Punishment! Again! Because it was such a joy when Turner did it I just had to come back for more! How was your first week?