I was supposed to pick out my overdue birthday and Christmas gift yesterday. Failed miserably yet again. You see, rewarding myself is an idea that’s foreign. Blame childhood issues, perhaps. Oftentimes, I get what I need and not what I really want. In those times when I do get what I want, I pine over expense for months defeating the whole idea of rewarding oneself.

I wanted to pick out a podcast kit so that I can finally start working on a few projects that I’ve been meaning to do since a couple of years back. Too bad audio stores just don’t carry decent podcast kits. Behringer offers the components of the package individually but it’d still set me back twenty grand. My second choice was a brand new acoustic guitar but kuripot struck me again and just decided to get me some new strings for my electric guitar.

A bit frustrated, I just settled to get some books. And it’s not like they’re for leisure reads either. God knows when was the last time I’ve read something just for kicks. All of them are somehow related to current and future writing projects. And boy books are just so expensive these days. Any paperback will set you back Php 500 easy. Can’t wait for my credit card bill next month.

PS. Oh, any idea where I can order these books? Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis [2009], Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis and Text, Discourse and Corpora. Forgot to ask Fully Booked if they can. For some reason, I don’t want to risk Amazon.

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1. What’s this? Syntactic Structures free for download?
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3. Critical discourse analysis and blogging
4. The originality of thought