Cracking open the Books

Last night I hit the books hard, I was cramming for 2 exams. I actually just got done with them boht ... now I usually do not like to talk about exams. I just wait for the results. I usually hurry out of the Business Complex and avoid people trying to recall all the questions they got right or wrong. But last night was sad. ... It was sad because I was studying for my Ec340 class. Now I never miss class, never. I hate missing class. ... Except for this Ec340 class. I actually haven't gone in over 2 wks!! It's really boring, the professor reads her slides verbatim and makes multiple mistakes. Hence her emails almost everyweek with corrections to her slides. ... So last night as I pulled my shiny and well kept International Economics book out of my backpack and wondered why the book looked so new. I set it down on the table and open the front cover .... slowly ... and there it came ... this loud crack of the binding opening for probably the first time..... like a waitress dropping a tray of plates, everyone looked. It was really sad.