and yes, I would like fries with that

So, today, I bought my textbooks for next semester. And I'm feeling rather smugly rebellious about that, because this is probably the latest I have put off ordering my books. Ever. I've got exactly a week until classes start and the old me would have been panicking about having put it off for so long, not wanting to be one of those people who is still picking up obvious textbook deliveries from the mailroom months into the semester. But the new me, the older and wiser me, the me of 2012 and all the badassery that those numbers bring to mind, is satisfied that they were at least ordered.

And I lucked out this semester a bit. At least, we're hoping I did. The most expensive book individually was about fifty dollars, so book by book, this was probably the cheapest semester I've ever had. There are just about a million of them. About ten of them were under ten dollars each, but that's ten of them. All told, I have over a dozen textbooks. And I think I'm going to have to use all of them...

The thing is, last semester, I ended up being rather frustrated. Two textbooks together cost me nearly two hundred and fifty dollars, and I ended up not ever, ever, ever using either of those textbooks. Bogus, I say.

I don't understand it. The book that I used the most last semester? Cost me four dollars and twenty-five cents. It was a beat-up little paperback for my drama class. Was required reading. My accounting textbook? One of the books I spent far too much on. My professor was good enough that I never needed to crack it open. Not for homework problems, nothing. I spent all that money, and never once used the text. Got a B in the class and the only reason it wasn't an A was because I didn't do so hot on the final due to a) not studying the right sections because I am an procrastinating idiot and b) my prof not making the test - the department did - so I was thrown by the unfamiliar format and wording.

So yeah, here's hoping that these books will end up being, y'know, used this semester. Now I just have to wait until they arrive.