The Bookstore sucks and Zinsser knows how to Write

So, for today’s blog post response to the assigned readings, we were supposed to have read 4 chapters from a book written by Zinsser. I got really lucky and our professor scanned the first 3 chapters to Moodle, but I couldn’t read the 4th chapter titled “Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence.” I am super bummed out because that chapter actually sounds like it would have been the best one. I couldn’t read the chapter because our professor didn’t scan it because she didn’t want to get into legal issues (completely understandable) and wanted us to have purchased the book. Being the great student I am, I purchased the books at the very beginning of the semester from our campus bookstore. So I get back to my room at 9:00pm tonight fully prepared to read these 4 chapters from the book I purchased back in early August and I start hunting for the book in my stack of textbooks. I don’t see it. So I go to the bookstore’s website and it says “COURSE MATERIALS SELECTION PENDING.” Here is a screenshot of this B.S.

This is nonsense. I checked this same page when I ordered my books and I had to buy $100+ of textbooks. Now it says that it is pending??? THIS MEANS I WASTED MY MONEY ON TEXTBOOKS I DON’T NEED AND CAN’T RETURN! Sooooooo, getting back to the moral of this story… don’t buy textbooks before you actually need them.

I have Trust Issues Now…

So I am super peeved off right now. I actually hate everything. I was typing out my response for the reading we had to do for today and made a typo. I clicked the backspace/delete button and instead of deleting that letter, the browser went back a page. I was super frantic and hoped to GOD my post was still there… but sadly, it was not. So my entire previous post (which was absolute GOLD by the way) just got deleted. So, if this post is riddled with anger or hatred, I am sorry. Also I am typing this out in Microsoft Word because I now have trust issues. Thanks, Internet/Google Chrome/anyone but myself.

The Power was out and the Wifi went down

But that was all of yesterday. So, I woke up bright and early this morning to do this response. Don’t fret.

For today, we read two articles: Digital Media vs. Analog Media by Carroll and From Bards to Blogs by Rettberg, I am going to start the discussion with Carroll’s article.