went to borders today! and got The Talking Horse and The Sad Girl and The Village Under the Sea by mark haddon, which cost $17.80. which unfortunately left me broke. But i though it would be good for anthology and then i could share it with people! Mark Haddon is the author of The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time and this is a book of poems. crystal and geeru were enchanted by the selection on display despite their low budgets and we browsed through something by sophie dahl (I thought she was a model :/) and she tried to keep up with her grandfather by publishing a book. and it had quirky humor- i think like the type in terry prachett and it also had whimsical illustrations! but it was a little chick lit, and some good writing, but none of roald dahl. but i shouldn't be expecting that anyway, since sophie should be original and try to set herself apart from her grandfather. I find it very coincidental nowadays because remember last year i wrote on my deleted blog that i wanted to read and write more? and now im surrounded by people who do just that.

being surrounded by people like crystal, geeru, michele and charisse make me feel like we are socially inept. as in we are isolating ourselves from the rest of the class (i think) and this is not helpful with class bonding!- which is what our class comm is trying to accomplish. but the problem is, i've got to know geeru, crystal and michele better by sitting next to crystal and working with michele and geeru in my geog pt group, and have come to realise that they were not the annoying, socially inept people who read books all day that i thought they were at the beginning of the year. (although we are still socially inept, and geeru is annoying) and i have a very stong feeling that most of the class feels that too. even though not everyone has the same voracious appetite we have for books, we still talk about normal school stuff like everyone else does, (though with a warped sense of humor) and have the same homework problems that everyone else has and therefore are perfectly ok to talk to. but sometimes it might be our fault that we dont talk to people. and i come back to the point that we are socially inept! but really i think i should talk to the class more and attempt to make conversation with people who start ones! and maybe start a few of my own. and I shall try to convince crystal too.