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PhoenixFP
07-25-2010 at 08:40 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:40 PM.
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OMG, I HATE that - that's such the biggest freakin' rip-off ever. Annoyed
Yeah, tell me about it. My Psych professor last year was a TA (intro class), and he goes "I learned with the old edition, and I've updated my notes and everything to the new one. That said, I don't recommend buying the new one" then the half of the class that had bought the new edition almost simultaneously got a dejected look on their face. It was priceless.

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Most of my science class books are like that. They maybe add a few diagrams, some updated pictures, and they get to charge $150 for it.
Or worse. The Calc textbook I bought in January is $223 new. It's the same shit as the old version, and the professor swore up and down (I think, couldn't really tell behind the Northern India accent) we'd need the 6th edition. So, I got the 6th edition and paid the $4 to overnight it from Amazon.

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But I just go around that, and buy the older edition for about $10. Evillaugh Then it sells for about half that at the end of the semester. But even if I didn't sell it, I'd be out way less than if I rented.
Yep. I don't even think I will sell some of my textbooks back. The required computer literacy class has a textbook that costs $7 from Amazon. It's pretty useless to me, but it's not worth selling it to anyone. I still saved over $70 buying it from Amazon for $8 instead of from the bookstore for $81 with the CD (got the CD free woot).
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RefCache
07-25-2010 at 08:42 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:42 PM.
I don't have a hose anymore.

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nessykins removed it along with a bunch of other things I once held dear.
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PhoenixFP
07-25-2010 at 08:44 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:44 PM.
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Yeah. I bought books in the book store my very first semester, because that's what they told me to do. I found out a few weeks later and I was like... Ranting
Problem is, financial aid disbursement is often weeks into the semester. FSU does it at the end of the 1st week (2nd Monday in the semester it's direct deposited into your SunTrust account), but other schools are terrible. My SIL bought my Oceanography textbook for $45 from the community college here, I picked it up and paid her back when I came home 10 days later, and she still had 2 weeks to wait to get her financial aid.

That's where people get screwed. If you're dependent upon financial aid, you often just bite the bullet instead of being 3-4 weeks in and not having your book. Hell, at the community college they don't disburse financial aid till like Week 6, of a 15 week semester!

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Yeah, that's common with lab manuals - I don't mind so much because they're cheap. If they were like a hundred bucks or something, I'd be pissed. laugh out loud
This semester my lab manual for Geology is $78 from Amazon Frown. But the FSU bookstore sells used copies, so I'ma wait until the first day of class and see what the professor says. Some classes are anal about needing a new copy, some obviously don't have you fill in the crap in the manual.
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07-25-2010 at 08:45 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:45 PM.
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I don't have a hose anymore.

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nessykins removed it along with a bunch of other things I once held dear.
Ref, where the hell did your abs of steel go?
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07-25-2010 at 08:45 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:45 PM.
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At this point I'm just using burning software. ImgBurn.

I had previously created .iso images of the DVD's with running AnyDVD in the background.



I hope he's getting better! Or beta-er?


DH went to work tonight we will see when he gets home at 7am. I think he will be beta-er LMAO
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07-25-2010 at 08:45 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:45 PM.
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Well, look at the hose he's holding compared to you... Girly



Big enough for you? Evil
i cant see images. Crying
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07-25-2010 at 08:47 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:47 PM.
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Ref, where the hell did your abs of steel go?
The only way I'd have abs of steel would be if my decapitated head was put on the body of a robot.
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07-25-2010 at 08:47 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:47 PM.
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Nothing as cool as that Evil the touchscreen isn't working...it stopped working whn I txt u.


BTw...DH told me he wouldn't mind if I went bisexual. Oh and today I asked him who he was texting and he told me his lesbian lover Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
Rofl2
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07-25-2010 at 08:48 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:48 PM.
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I don't have a hose anymore.

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If I return your preciouses what will I get in return? Evillaugh
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07-25-2010 at 08:48 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:48 PM.
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DH went to work tonight we will see when he gets home at 7am. I think he will be beta-er LMAO
He went back to work that soon?

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If I return your preciouses what will I get in return? Evillaugh
To see them in action! Harhar
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07-25-2010 at 08:52 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:52 PM.
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He went back to work that soon?
Old people are crazy. My Grandpa went into the hospital for a week before he died and the day he got out he was trying to go back to work. He was crazy.
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07-25-2010 at 08:55 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:55 PM.
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Old people are crazy.
I am intimately familiar with this fact. Smilie
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Maleficent
07-25-2010 at 08:56 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:56 PM.
Quote from RefCache :
I don't have a hose anymore.

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nessykins removed it along with a bunch of other things I once held dear.
Along with all your internal organs, it seems. Dontknow

Quote from PhoenixFP :
Problem is, financial aid disbursement is often weeks into the semester. FSU does it at the end of the 1st week (2nd Monday in the semester it's direct deposited into your SunTrust account), but other schools are terrible. My SIL bought my Oceanography textbook for $45 from the community college here, I picked it up and paid her back when I came home 10 days later, and she still had 2 weeks to wait to get her financial aid.

That's where people get screwed. If you're dependent upon financial aid, you often just bite the bullet instead of being 3-4 weeks in and not having your book. Hell, at the community college they don't disburse financial aid till like Week 6, of a 15 week semester!


This semester my lab manual for Geology is $78 from Amazon Frown. But the FSU bookstore sells used copies, so I'ma wait until the first day of class and see what the professor says. Some classes are anal about needing a new copy, some obviously don't have you fill in the crap in the manual.
Yeah, that's true - we don't get our financial aid for THIRTY DAYS after the first day of the semester. Mad

That's such crap.

So once the book lists are put out, I slowly buy one or two at a time for that month or two before the semester begins. I never have to spend more than $100 or so for an entire semester, so spread out over a month or more, it's not that bad. Big Grin

I just cut back a little till I get my financial aid. But yeah, some people can't afford to that, which sucks. Annoyed

Stupid universities, take advantage of people like that.

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Oh I'm sorry sweetie! Down

I thought you being back meant you were back online.

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Old people are crazy. My Grandpa went into the hospital for a week before he died and the day he got out he was trying to go back to work. He was crazy.
Well yeah, when you get that old, and you've lost millions of brain cells, obviously your mental health isn't going to be as sharp as it was fifty years prior.
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07-25-2010 at 08:57 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:57 PM.
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I am intimately familiar with this fact. Smilie
thats why i heart you. Cloud9
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cupcake42
07-25-2010 at 08:57 PM.
07-25-2010 at 08:57 PM.
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He went back to work that soon?



To see them in action! Harhar
yep! the Doc was going to keep him off for a few more days but he has no vacation & very little sick time. So he told the Doc he would like to go back on light duty. He is out a lot lately. He will be taking 75% ss in Oct when he is 62. At that time he may work 2 days a week. Frown
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