I am a greedy bastard (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

Well, it's official: I'm a greedy, shameless bastard ^_^;

In light of the upcoming move to our school's new building, everyone's doing a major cleanup of their offices. For the past few weeks, folks have been putting out piles of crap in the hallways, with notes like Free! or Take me home!. Most of the stuff wasn't very interesting, until I came to school today.

In our section of the building, a pile of about 300 maths books had appeared! They were all old prints of the books used to teach math in high school. A bit outdated, by surely still useful. I managed to compile one complete set of books for the Moderne Wiskunde method, books used in years 1 through 5.

Of course, I do feel like an egocentric ass for taking a complete set of books. I'm trying to tell my conscience that it was a good thing to do, because we don't have the money to outright buy these books. But then again, the same goes for a lot of my classmates. Oh well...

Books! /o/ *spends three hours just browsing through them*

Posted in: books , free stuff , greedy bastard , loot , swag

Woot! (Wow, loot!) (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

As I mentioned earlier, I stopped by Trader2 this morning, in search of some specific items. One of the items on the list was a set of DVDs for Romeo X Juliet. By buying the original DVDs I can rationalize getting fansubbed versions of the series, just so I can understand the whole story. And as you can see from the picture, I've succeeded! :) I also managed to lay my hands on a semi-rare (yet uber-cheap) Cowboy Bebop DVD+book set.

Since Trader deals in secondhand goods, the prices of these DVDs were a lot better than their original price! Each DVD was knocked back from around Y6800 to about Y4000. That's less than the usual Trader discount, but that's probably because RxJ is a really new series. The Bebop DVD rang in at Y2400. In the end I was out about 76 euros for four DVDs. That's not bad, considering that none of this stuff will ever be available in the US or Europe.

I was astounded by the quality of the items, by the way. Japanese otaku really do keep their stuff in pristine condition! Two of the DVDs were still in their original celophane (inside the shop's wrapper), so someone'd been taking very good care of them :)

The item on the right, in the paper bag, is a gift I got for Marli-chan. I'm keeping this a bit of a surprise for her :p

I also got two of those phonebook sized manga, from Gamers. A little under 6 euros got me about 600 pages of reading pleasure! I really wish we could get manga this way in Europe! =_=; I'd love to take the books home with me, but I don't think I will, due to their weight. Then again, I may also just ship them home through the mail.

A bountiful day! ^_^

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