Last night I realized that I needed to do my homework assignment that is due this afternoon. The problem is that the textbook I ordered two weeks ago still hasn’t arrived. I ordered it through Amazon, but it’s actually coming from one of their partners, and the delivery estimate is anywhere between January 25 and February 8! Ugh.
With a homework assignment to be done, I decided that the only solution would be to go to the UHCL bookstore, pay the higher price there, and just return the Amazon-ordered one whenever it came (since you can’t return books to the UHCL bookstore after the first week of class). That plan sort of sucked since it ruined my chance of saving any money, but it had to be done. So off I went to the UHCL bookstore, where…the book is backordered!
Well this presented a larger problem. Off to Barnes and Noble I went where, sigh, they didn’t have any copies. They had copies of the books in the series for Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks individually, but not the one for all three. And of course that’s the one I need.
After that I needed to go to Best Buy to get a new case for my iPod. As a side note, I must say that I am convinced now that iPods are simply a means of selling all the freaking accessories that go along with them. My old iTrip FM transmitter? Yeah, doesn’t work with the new iPod. And the new “standard” transmitter? Yeah, doesn’t let you both transmit and charge the battery at the same time. So I had to buy one off eBay for $50. It’s a good thing I managed to get $60 off the iPod by giving them my old one and being a student. And yet despite all this hassle, I never even considered getting an mp3 player other than an iPod. Apple is evil.
Best Buy, of course, is near the new Borders that I hadn’t yet been in. I was already 0-for-2 in searching for my textbook, but gave it a shot. Of course Borders didn’t have it either. 0-for-3, strike out, time to go home and send an email to my professor telling him I won’t have the homework in on time because I can’t freaking get a textbook.
