Damn the world of college textbooks!

After a little thought and consideration, I decided to drop German and take up French. German is just getting old, even though I technically don't know anything German.

So, just now I toted my $120 German text back to the campus bookstore and picked up the $140 French book. When I brought them to the counter to undergo the exchange, I was informed that I would only get half back because I had opened the plastic on the three German books bound together.

In sum, my impatience to open my textbooks has cost me over $60. Those meanies. I promptly told the woman behind the counter that I wouldn't opt to sell them back the book at half-off. Sure, I bought the French book, but I kept the German one, too, and I'll try to sell it to someone else.

Otherwise, college is going okay. It's only Day One of classes, so who knows?