Chocolate Day/Make A Difference Day/Statue Of Liberty Day/Pumpkinfest (Tennessee)
2006-10-28 @ 11:10 p.m.

When I go hunting for books in Borders or Kinokuniya, I'm quite hopeless at making up my mind. I always end up buying less books than I want, which is very unsatisfying, but probably a prudent move given the state of my bank account. That said, I did blow more than $100 on books at Kinokuniya, and that was after the 20% members' discount that's happening today and tomorrow only. Or at least until December, when I'm betting my last dollar there's going to be another promotion. If Kinokuniya is always enticing people to become members just for the 20% discount, why can't all the prices just be slashed by 20%? Unless they're already jacked up by 20%? (Wait a minute, does that actually work out mathematically? I'm sure that there's a problem somewhere in the construction of that sentence, grammatically and/or mathematically. Heck.) So I bought Only Revolutions, and told Eugene that I'd tell him if it was any good so he wouldn't have to throw away good money on a sophomore effort that might very well be more flash than substance. (It is very hard to top something like House Of Leaves!) My good intentions received the SMS equivalent of a blank stare. I had to pointedly remind him of the author's name before he got my point. Really, sometimes I wonder why I bother. Also bought Pamuk's The New Life, just to prove that I'm not going downhill intellectually, since Eugene was quite horrified that I actually enjoy reading Jason Hahn's chronicles of life with "his terrible flatmates, Saffy and Amanda". To defend myself, can I just say that I don't care whether they're even real, because the stuff that happens is so hilariously dramatic. It's like the stuff that happens when I'm hanging out with Humanities people, amplified only about a dozen times. You know something? I think I will move out and find my own place after I come back from the UK, provided I can find at least two people to split the expenses with. It can't hurt to start planning in advance. They'd have to be either not rich enough to afford their own place, or so sick of living with their parents that it wouldn't matter how fabulous their own abode actually was. I suppose they'd have to be guys too. I really doubt my parents would approve of such living arrangements if they involved anyone of the opposite sex. Have I mentioned that I love my Ted Baker frames? It helps that it's a UK brand. Plus at below $200, it was dead cheap. I think my last pair cost more than $250, and now that I look at it, what was I thinking when I bought it? Hindsight's a real bitch.