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Here's today's Booking Through Thursday.

1. Do you have any old school books? Did you keep yours from college? Old textbooks from garage sales? Old workbooks from classes gone by? Yeah, I sure do. That stuff was expensive, man, you can't just throw it away. I still have all of my Computer Science texts (an algorithm is an algorithm), although I seem to have misplaced my copy of Brooks. I still have a Russian textbook and reader. I still have most of my old German books, those little yellow and green and orange Reclam things. And I still have my copy of Aldwell and Schachter. (It did not cost $113 seventeen years ago.)

2. How about your old notes, exams, papers? Do you save them? Or have they long since gone to the great Locker-in-the-sky?
I have notebooks and papers that date back to high school, as a matter of fact. I keep them around because I always used a section of my notebooks for writing stories, and I occasionally mine them for ideas. Some of them are not too bad, and of course some of them are awful. It's interesting to look at those old notebooks, though; for example, one of them has a bunch of trigonometry notes in it. They are gibberish to me now--but back in the day I tutored people in trigonometry.