Today's library adventure Today the New York Times did a photo shoot with me at the library. My cheapness, bred and nurtured in me by my parents, is finally receiving its due. What happened was, a writer was doing a story on the high price of textbooks and how students are dealing, so I volunteered my many techniques, which included: Buying used copies on Amazon, getting Colliculus to hunt them down at his university, getting Colliculus to seek them out at another American college through interlibrary loan, and, as the program progressed, not buying books at all on the grounds that I would never read them. And, the point of the photo shoot, getting them at the public library -- as soon as humanly possible so that my classmates couldn't beat me to it. Although it always turned out my eagerness was completely unnecessary -- nobody was ever like, "I tried to find this at the public library but some asshole had it checked out!"

In the interest of journalistic truthfulness, I had to find an actual book from an actual course. I couldn't remember which ones I'd gotten out of the library, so I just pulled a name from memory and found an early edition of it on the stacks. The photographer took all kinds of shots from all kinds of angles. The oddest thing about it was that no one looked at us oddly. That, and there was a can of Copenhagen on one of the shelves that we had to move. Yes, in the marketing section. 

¶ 11:18 PM