Pittsburgh

Being back in Pittsburgh has made me realize that I really enjoy Pittsburgh. If my parents had allowed me to bring my car while I was at Carnegie Mellon I would've enjoyed it more WHILE I went to school here. The problem with Pittsburgh is that it is LOVELY in the summer because you can literally walk everywhere (if you do not want to take a bus), but it is a TERRIBLE city in the winter when you HAVE to take the bus.

Anyway, I have already spent $30 on books. It is a good thing that my mother does not read my blog. Some gems include:

Pushkin: A Biography. This was published within the past 3 years (I don't feel like looking right now), it is hardcover and still has the dust cover and it was ONLY $3.75. Genius

Life of Rossini by Stendhal. For some reason this book which is 40 years older than the Pushkin was $3.00 Still, I am not complaining.

Confessions of St. Augustine: $1.00 (Yay for bargain books!)

Then at the Caliban bookstore:

Musicology and Gender (YAAAAAY!) $8.00. Worth it.

And an enormous biography of Tchaikovsky that was only 2.00 (similar to the Pushkin.)

Their bargain bin had an enormous amount of books on classical music and they were almost all soft cover aka 5o cents. Excellent.

That is my life in Pittsburgh thus far.

Jay picked me up at the bus terminal. He is a god for driving/eating Chipotle with only one fully functioning arm.

Wedding tomorrow. Most excited!

Lastly, I may be able to audit Russian at Rutgers for free. It would cost me the same amount to take officially audit the class as it would to officially register for the course, but the professor is allowing me to audit it unofficially. Rutgers, you are a mess. Or maybe this is policy everywhere and in undergrad I didn't have to worry about paying for overloading on classes so I did not care.

It is going to be massively awkward to only be taking 9 credits. Oh, grad school!