Wearing Chucks, Not Making It To The Gym, and That 1% of Uncertainty

          Yesterday, I was so set on going to the gym after the morning exam, that I didn't even bother to wear my white uniform shoes and wore my Chucks to the exam like a boss. Yet I also intended to go to the bookstore, and since I decided to hit Kinokuniya first - under the condition of being book-deprived - I never made it to the gym.

         But truthfully, I had an important reason to go book shopping yesterday other than for myself. Earlier this week, a friend of mine who I don't get to see everyday had a birthday. I will be meeting her in a few hours for another very special occasion, which I'll probably elaborate on in another post. Anyways, when I usually struggle to decide what to buy my friends for their birthdays, uniquely with her, I have no trouble figuring out what to get as the perfect gift - a book. The only problem I had with buying a book for her was finding a meaningful one that I've read that she hasn't. To give you a picture of how difficult this was, consider the fact that in high school, we once took a course that gave us a list of 50 or so books, from which we were to select 2-3 to read and report on. What are the odds that, out of that list, we were chose 2 same books [Wild Swans and Like Water for Chocolate]? We didn't even really know each other then.

          After 4 hours though, I did find one, which I'm 99% sure she hasn't read. I got her this:

One of my faves.

My copy on the right.

Happy Birthday, Mind. =]

Irrelevant: Why are philosophy books so expensive?! I wanted so many yesterday.