Expensive M.A.

[hmpf]

Since I've just placed another two big orders with amazon and Donna Barr's web store, I've taken a moment to add up all the money I've spent on books for my thesis so far. I can't reconstruct all the prices, but it seems I'm approaching the 400 euro mark rather rapidly. That's a full month's pay, or the equivalent of my rent plus phone bill for a month. (Yes, I'm earning less money per month than I need to live. I'm getting some additional financial support from my parents, and I also take money out of my savings every month - which are also rapidly dwindling. Hardly surprising, seeing the recent development of my comics spending habit...)

I'm also running out of shelf space. Have run out of shelf space, in fact. I'm now stacking books on my desk, behind the monitor. Thankfully it's a flat screen, so there's some space there.

I hope and pray I won't have to buy Cerebus (estimated price: another 400 euros. Plus another half metre or so of non-existent shelf space). There's a library in Berlin which has it, and I have family in Berlin... if I can get a cheap deal for getting to Berlin, this may be an option. Though it would probably mean a week or two of hardcore, non-stop reading and note-taking in Berlin...

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In conclusion: I must be utterly mad. Nobody should spend this kind of money on an M.A. thesis.

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Also, a note to Fandom: amidst all the insanity, I actually committed fic the day before yesterday. Unpublishable fic, fic for a readership of one, but still fic. Note to space_oddity_75: Sam's fighting back now. I cut myself on the paper I was writing on, yesterday. Deeply.