Brilliant . . .

I order most of my books for school online (a) because Drexel's bookstore is outrageous (as if their tuition isn't enough), not to mentioned staffed by Drexel's finest (read: incompetent morons) and (b) because shopping online is just too damn convenient.

So I order my book for Group Counseling, using the ISBN number given to me on the booklist sent to me earlier in the fall. It was super cheap used, like under $10, which is a historical amount considering most of my books are $50-$75. I was jazzed--thinking "yeah baby, I finally got one over the group of highly-paid assholes responsible for jacking up college textbook prices!!" I was geeked.

The book came in the mail today. Of course, It's the previous edition. Lovely. While I'm pretty sure that the data in the text isn't all that different from the revised version, it'll have to do.

Strangely enough, I did this last quarter in one of my other classes. I bought the older edition of a text from the bookstore and, the bookstore ordered the WRONG ONE. The professor upgraded to a later version (I swear they are getting kickbacks, but that's a whole nuther vent). Then, duh, I lost my receipt for the book I bought from the bookstore, so I couldn't return it (insert banging head emoticon here). And, being the angst-ridden overachiever that I am, I couldn't possibly make due with something lesser than what is required. End result of the madness: I read exactly ONE chapter from that $65 newer version that my professor INSISTED we have. That one chapter cost me, sum total, $125 bucks.

7 more months. It's my mantra these days, and one of the few things that keep me from jumping in front of a bus. ;-)