“What did you find?”
“Treasure!”
-Aims and C.

In addition to other things, it’s also Graduation Week here on campus.  Having done the cap and gown thing last August, you’d think this wouldn’t mean much for me.  Au contraire.  It also means that the university bookstore is having a sale and that it’s payday tomorrow.  A rather lethal combination!  I spent my entire lunch break wandering around the store looking for deals and even managed to show remarkable restraint.  My arms were full of nearly a dozen books at one point that I was covetously hording but I managed to get a grip and narrow it down to a very sensible three.  The Histories by Herodotus, because even though I worship at the shrine of the Father of History, I’ve been content to read this gem in my mother’s classical library on visits home.  No more!  In the same vein I got a copy (finally) of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.  The last one I don’t like to admit but I will, Little Women.  It was my go-to-feel-good-book when I was younger so I grabbed it for old times sake (and it was less expensive than either the Writings of John Donne or the T.S. Elliot anthology I wanted).  All for under $20!

I’m honestly trying really hard to read more modern literature and expand my interests, but I keep going back to older classics.  I think I just have to accept my status as a book nerd.