book buyback time is always a cause for grouchiness. you queue up for 20mins to find that $3 is all you get back for 3 books, two of which were entirely new because i had, at the start of term, inadvertently bought duplicate copies. should have just got a refund earlier, but i was lazy and not having sold back books for several semesters now i forgot how the nasty racket works. you buy a text book for $80 and you will get back, at the very, and very unlikely, most, $20 for the book, which is then sold used to the next kid for $60. what you ought to do is to go around and find out who needs the book and sell it to them for, say $40, which makes both of you happier by $20. oh well. i went over to the pavilion and spent my $3 on a smoothie. it seemed fit. i haven't had a smoothie all year, although i used to all the time, and anyway, i wasn't exactly going to stick $3 in the bank. while i was there i also collected the book that gordon kirtland sent me. it was garry willis's mr jefferson's university, which i'm really quite excited about. i never took a lot of interest in jefferson but lately since having a little american lit and, i suppose, in the last two years, more - aware - of a sense of - history. heh. so that would be good reading, when i am home.