Is it just me, or does summer vacation always seem to fly by? Already, I'm getting ready to go back to school...It just doesn't seem like it should be time yet! ^^;;
My mother and I went to the University today to pick up my textbooks. Simple, right? Not quite. The main road to the campus was closed for construction, so we had to take a detour around and try to find another way in. So, we spent a while driving around, just trying to figure out how to get into the campus. Then, once we were in, we couldn't find the Student Center. So, we got to drive around some more...I swear, we're practically locals and we manage to get lost. =P When we got to the bookstore, we learned that two of my books were missing. One was simply out of stock; they told us to try back in a few days. As for the other, however, they said that they hadn't heard from the proper department yet; that is, they didn't know what book to give out for that class....Great. And it figures, one of the ones that I didn't get was the one that I really wanted to read! We'll have to pick up my Japanese book at a later date, along with my Calculus one (Not that I mind with this one!). I did get my CS book (Java, yay ^^), my "Discrete Math" book (*Gag*), and a workbook for my Japanese class, plus a nice Japanese-to-English dictionary.
After we got my books and ate a quick lunch, we headed over to the parking division to get a decal for our car, so I would be allowed to park on campus. That sent us running around a bit, as we had to get papers signed, then go back, etc. Finally got it, though. ^^
As we were heading home, we stopped at the local Barnes and Noble to get something cold to drink. On the way back to the Cafe, my mother started skimming the new releases they had lined up. I'm really glad that she did, 'cause I spotted a copy of Terry Goodkind's newest
Sword of Truth novel. Needless to say, I had to have it. ^_^ A new book and a large iced Chai...I was quite pleased.
When we got home, we found a box sitting on the dining room table. It was the t-shirts that I had ordered online about a week earlier. I needed some more clothes for school, so okaasan let me order some at
ThinkGeek.com. This store is awesome...Besides having really spiffy merchandise, the service was quite good. I got the Geek, Binary People, SQL Query, b4k4^2, Ph34r t3h Cute Ones, and QuickKill. All quite spiffy. ^^
[x-posted from my old journal]