Today in my humanities class, which I'm going to here on call Rome class, the prof discovered that I didn't have a copy of the reading. He's a pretty old british gentlemen, totally scatter-brained and nutty. When he asked us to do some in-class reading, he saw that I was reading off Laura Young's book who was sitting behind me. He promptly brought me his copy of the book, explaining that he'd read it already.
From another comment he made later on, I think he's assuming that I have my own copy of it here at home. The problem is that I still haven't bought about half my books. Mark and I are in religion together, so we're splitting the cost and just sharing the books (living across the hall makes that really easy). Then I have a couple of friends that have taken creative writing already, so I'm borrowing books from them. And then both Kat and Laura are in my Rome class, so I just haven't gotten anything yet. The only real book purchase I've made was the Griffiths Quantum.
I was just hoping that I could avoid that "Man, I totally didn't need to put money into this book" told-you-so moment at the end of the semester. Instead I get put in my place by the prof after a single week of classes.
Karma bites again.
So, I don't really have a comment on your story, although it was a good story.
Posted by: laurie at September 11, 2003 9:22 PMI just thought that I would say hello. So......hi!