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*I've decided that shinies are for buying things I feel guilty about, even though I shouldn't, really, bc I can totally afford $6/box tea and $10 ebooks. By doing chores to get shinies, my house gets cleaner and I get guilt-free stuff: I win!
Edit: Oh yeah, the bonus question is bc I've been reading Andrei Codrescu's highly recommended New Orleans, Mon Amour and while the language is lovely and evocative, it only seems to fuel the cliches I already know, instead of giving me context.
*I've decided that shinies are for buying things I feel guilty about, even though I shouldn't, really, bc I can totally afford $6/box tea and $10 ebooks. By doing chores to get shinies, my house gets cleaner and I get guilt-free stuff: I win!
Edit: Oh yeah, the bonus question is bc I've been reading Andrei Codrescu's highly recommended New Orleans, Mon Amour and while the language is lovely and evocative, it only seems to fuel the cliches I already know, instead of giving me context.
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:19 pm (UTC)As much as it pains me to admit, the library just isn't the same.
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-11 09:13 pm (UTC)*ahem*
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Date: 2012-01-11 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-11 11:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-12 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-11 03:40 pm (UTC)Also, re: The Teaching Company, make sure you never buy a course unless it's on sale. You can wait - every course goes on sale at least once a year (and some more often).
They screwed up last year in showing that they would send me a notice to a 90% off sale.... b/c now I'm not going to buy from there again until I get a deal at least as good. ;)
To be sure, I own dozens of their lecture courses, going back to the 90s when I started buying (on cassette tape and VHS...I still have them, too. If they have them available at 90% off, I'll upgrade to DVD or CD)
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:47 pm (UTC)Did you ever get the Friends & Family coupon? 50% off sale prices on 25 courses. That's why I bought the integrated Greece & Rome lectures and the ones on the Axial age. That's my story and I'm sticking to it :)
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Date: 2012-01-11 03:51 pm (UTC)This morning, I started listening to my first Greenberg lecture set - Beethoven. He's a hoot. (and just finished McWhorter's Linguistics survey course)
I had mainly been sticking to literature & history, but I think I may start looking into the music stuff.
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Date: 2012-01-11 04:51 pm (UTC)I would miss the sales from brick and mortar stores, possibly. Going TO them, no, except possibly for signings. I haven't BEEN in a physical bookstore for other reasons in the last few years, except once to buy some gaming books.
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Date: 2012-01-14 09:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-24 09:22 pm (UTC)