This week was interesting.   
 
Sunday, I finally got my voice back from my tonsillectomy.  The road to recovery was significantly longer for me, considering my age and the extreme inflammation of my tonsils.  No matter, I had my voice back, barely, and though it sounded weird I felt a lot better.  I also inherited a very old turntable from my parents, so I can start on my record collections.  The only nuisance with this turntable is that the speakers that come with it emit a very loud and alarming burst of static when they first turn on, or when the volume is adjusted.  I bought two records to begin my collection: Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step.  Good albums.   
 
I was looking forward to not having work the next day and relaxing.  Unfortunately, it turns out that there was a problem with the schedule and a very serious miscommunication, so actually I was supposed to go into work on Monday.  I ended up being two hours late, but I didn't get fired.  The manager and the assistant manager forgave me and everything is cool again.   
 
I needed to get my textbooks this week for my upcoming classes.  One of them was supposed to be $180, but I found it on Amazon for $40.  Score!  I found another one I needed on Amazon for a good price as well, but for the others I needed to go to my campus bookstore.  One of them was a painless $36, but the other was $145 used.  USED.  The price for the new book was $160.  I was about to bite the bullet and then I decided to hit the other campus bookstore (the "more" official one), and luckily they had a rental book.  The rental price is about half the price of a new copy, so it cost me roughly $70.  Not quite so bad.  When I got to the desk, the computer froze during my transaction, and then the other two froze, so I was waiting for a good 25 minutes to get out of there.  Didn't bother me too much, however.  I felt sorry for the nice girl behind the counter.   
 
I suddenly had a massive craving for some Asian cinema, so I quickly moved the Vengeance Trilogy and a film called The Chaser up to the front of my Netflix instant queue.  I also rented a movie called The Good, the Bad, the Weird from my place of employment.  Let me say, that was one of the most supremely entertaining movies to come out of Asia in years.  The next movie I rented was Ip Man, a semi-biographical movie about the man who would eventually mentor Bruce Lee, and it was fucking badass for the first half hour, then the disc stopped reading.  So I need to go grab another copy to see the rest. 
 
I have an internship this semester with the Public Defender's Office, and this will involve me having to make court appearances as part of the job.  The woman who took me on requested that I get a suit for these court appearances.  Luckily, I had an old suit in my closet that was too big for me a few years ago, but now it pretty much works, so that saved me about a hundred dollars.  I did need to get some new shoes, though.  And a tie.   I didn't realize until today how ridiculously expensive ties are.  Either way, the tie is pretty powerful (red and black diamonds that sort of "shift" if you change perspective") so I don't feel like I really wasted my money.  Either way this week's necessities set me back pretty bad so no more spending until the next paycheck on Thursday.   
 
 School starts on Monday.  I'm a little nervous about being swamped, but excited because I'm tired of being bored. 
 
Last.... 
Watched: Ip Man 
Listened:  "In the House, in a Hearbeat"--John Murphy
Played: Bioshock 2