“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”
August 29th, 2007
Those of us living in Ontario (and possibly a bigger radius, frankly) are probably familiar with the age(/decade)-old Staples Business Depot ads equating back-to-school with “the most wonderful time of the year”. When I was a young’un I remember finding the TV ads of mothers skipping down the isles of the store vaguely offensive, but today I went to the U of T Bookstore (heinously overpriced, for the record) and collected my books for the upcoming year, and as I carried my parcel over to the basket on my bike that old Christmas song was playing happily in my head.
I love piles of new books. I love Tables of Contentses. I love looking at the closed covers on books with uncreased spines and imagining what knowledge will be imparted to me throughout the year as I happily work my way through their pages.
In summary: I am a nerd. And I’m loving it.
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1. Ali | August 29th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
ooh! ooh! me too
Although the UF bookstore is also heinously overpriced, so I tend to buy my books from half.com and therefore don’t get to experience the crisp pages and uncreased spines. But I do get boxes filled with books arriving on my doorstep over the first week of classes and that has its excitement too. “Ooh, which one has arrived now?”
hehe) extends to library books as well, and sometimes I will bring home stacks and simply look at the tables of contenses. Often I don’t have time to read all the books I got so excited about in the library, but the thrill of potential knowledge is there, and wonderful.
My love of tables of contenses (nice pluralization
Hurray for being a nerd.
2. Ali | August 29th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
oh man, I hate it when the smileys actually turn into pictures because I am painfully reminded that I use entirely too many emoticons in my online writing.
3. padraigin | August 29th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
hahah ali i know exactly what you mean about the emoticons! i feel the same way when it happens to me (funny how we think it’s okay, even more sophisticated when it remains a bracket and a colon …ridiculous really).
hmm…i like this half.com idea. although i really am a sucker for the new ones, even though i don’t come anywhere near being able to really afford it. …*sigh* ah well.
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