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Jan. 31st, 2009 11:09 amDoes anyone know where I can buy some fair-trade, sustainable, eco-friendly etc. excersize books? The only ones I can find online are either buy-in-bulk for offices/schools or beautifully decorated nepalese journals for $42 a pop.
I'm at work today, and it's nice and slow, only one call since 7am. Not a bad way to spend a warm day really, kind of a drag having to be here at 7am both days of the weekend. Still, I try not to think of the fun I could be having outside and instead try to get in a more mercinary frame of mind (time-and-a-half today and double time tomorrow, woot! Lets pulverize that vet bill and have money for textbooks, woot!) Actually speaking of text books, as someone who did classics and was able most of the time to tottle down to the 2nd-hand bookshop and pick stuff up for under $10 (It helps when your textbooks are things like the Iliad and have been around in one form or another for well over two millenia) I've got to say the cost of my social work textbooks has come as a bit of a nasty shock! I know it's no where near what science and commerce types have to deal with, but $90 books still make me blink. Thank goodness I have a full-time job!
I've been playing with the student portal and looking at my classes for next semester, and I'm actually getting psyched! Even if they have decided to start classes during O'week (Don't worry, as far as I know it's only Nursing and Social Work doing this, everyone esle should be safe! Though come to think of it, these days not that many of you are still at uni, and if you are you're the ones teaching the classes...), meaning I will either miss some or have to scramble to change my shifts. Oh! And I have a new student card with a new photo, which is awesome as I look very little like my 18 year old self. Not so awesome is that it was taken yesterday after I'd just walked from Drummond st to the Med building so I was a tad red and sweaty. Ah well, I'll look at it and always remember it was taken on the last of three days in a row of over 43 degree celcius heat. Hurrah! I have a new card to celebrate my post-grad-ness and mid-twenties-ness! And it's valid til 2013, unlike my last one which was valid til Feb 2007 despite my receiving it in March 2007, University of Melbourne Admin strikes again!
Right, since I have nothing else to do I'm going to go play on ebay, in the safe knowlege that the second I attempt to bid for anything my internet will kick me off the site (this is the first time I've actually approved of one of these net-nanny things in the workplace by the way).
I'm at work today, and it's nice and slow, only one call since 7am. Not a bad way to spend a warm day really, kind of a drag having to be here at 7am both days of the weekend. Still, I try not to think of the fun I could be having outside and instead try to get in a more mercinary frame of mind (time-and-a-half today and double time tomorrow, woot! Lets pulverize that vet bill and have money for textbooks, woot!) Actually speaking of text books, as someone who did classics and was able most of the time to tottle down to the 2nd-hand bookshop and pick stuff up for under $10 (It helps when your textbooks are things like the Iliad and have been around in one form or another for well over two millenia) I've got to say the cost of my social work textbooks has come as a bit of a nasty shock! I know it's no where near what science and commerce types have to deal with, but $90 books still make me blink. Thank goodness I have a full-time job!
I've been playing with the student portal and looking at my classes for next semester, and I'm actually getting psyched! Even if they have decided to start classes during O'week (Don't worry, as far as I know it's only Nursing and Social Work doing this, everyone esle should be safe! Though come to think of it, these days not that many of you are still at uni, and if you are you're the ones teaching the classes...), meaning I will either miss some or have to scramble to change my shifts. Oh! And I have a new student card with a new photo, which is awesome as I look very little like my 18 year old self. Not so awesome is that it was taken yesterday after I'd just walked from Drummond st to the Med building so I was a tad red and sweaty. Ah well, I'll look at it and always remember it was taken on the last of three days in a row of over 43 degree celcius heat. Hurrah! I have a new card to celebrate my post-grad-ness and mid-twenties-ness! And it's valid til 2013, unlike my last one which was valid til Feb 2007 despite my receiving it in March 2007, University of Melbourne Admin strikes again!
Right, since I have nothing else to do I'm going to go play on ebay, in the safe knowlege that the second I attempt to bid for anything my internet will kick me off the site (this is the first time I've actually approved of one of these net-nanny things in the workplace by the way).
