Salve for your textbook buying woes

Go to Bookrenter.com and prepare to be amazed.
My $200 finance textbook cost me a whoopin' $85.96 WITH shipping.
I am so happy that I could very well cry with joy!

I saved myself a total of $50 this semester on books.
Ergo, I was able to purchase the optional book for one of my business classes that
really wasn't optional at all.
So yay for me!

In other Year of the Learner news:
Yesterday at the job fair I was volunteering for, I found out that if you're
persistent enough, you can make the HR director for a major resort here in the Beehive State
fall over and let me help him pack his stuff and send him on his merry way.
For added bonus: you get a stellar reference out of the whole experience and a job offer
that you are grossly lacking in experience.
Didn't take the job offer because the job is in Midway and well,
no car + more than an hour commute = no dice.

Anyhow, I need more to learn about. If I plan my money right, I'll be able to take a road trip
to LA for spring break and buy a digital and manual film SLR camera.
Maybe I'll just buy a digital SLR camera and worry about the manual film camera later.
More loan money in the fall will definitely make that possible.

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