Book Off blows.

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So I got off my lazy ass and went out around 3pm today.  My plan was to go buy a flash drive becuase I'm sick of emailing shit to myself at work all the time, pay some bills and shop.  Or think about shopping anyway.  I figured it would be a good time to go and sell some books and check out the library.  The library really isn't that far from Kashiwa station but there is a branch nearer to me that I should check out.  The main branch has English (and even some Chinese!) books.  Actually quite a large section but a lot of them are random (Tom Clancy, Danielle Steele and the like) that I wouldn't read in a million years but there were a few things worth picking up.  I got Eragon because my mom said Sarah read it and raved about it (although I wouldn't put much stock in a fickle 14 year old's opinion anyway) but it'll be a quick and easy read.  I also got a translated version of The Tale of the Heike because I obviously didn't get enough punishment from reading Mishima.  Let's try something older!  I actually read the first couple paragraphs and got a taste for it before I borrowed it so I know it won't be as painful.  And it piqued my interest because I wrote about it in my fic. 

I thought Book Off was pretty much right next to the library/City Hall but it's not.  It was another two blocks or so down but seemed like longer in this fucking heat.  I finally see it and get there and go to sell my books: one they won't take cuz the spine is flaking (IT'S OLD FOR FUCKS SAKE), one they don't want because it's... popular? and the other three they'll take.  How much did I get for 3 books?  SIXTY YEN.  YES.  Sixty fucking cents for 3 books - one of them was Mishima which was over 2000 yen when I bought it.  Fuck.  It's almost not even worth the trouble.  You can't even buy anything with 60 yen!  And on top of that I wandered around for like half an hour and couldn't find the foreign book section so maybe that's why they were so cheap.  I don't know.  Won't be making that trip again, that's for sure. 

Got my flash drive at Bic Camera and stood around for 30 minutes while the lady tried to get all my points together on one card.  Whoever set me up with both of them couldn't read my writing and put my name in all kinds of fucked up so maybe that was the problem.  Anyway, after lots of standing around like a retard, she issues me a new one and combines all my points and takes my money.  I was going to go and sit and write in Starbucks but there were no free seats and I was just too exhausted that I came home.  I could take a nap but that will just be bad news for me later so I guess I'll try some of these books I got.  Maybe they will entice me to write.

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Eragon was more than a little painful to read, in my opinion D: