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Books! Books, nom nom nom. I got The Second Sex, Nine Stories, The House of Mirth, and The Portable Dorothy Parker at Half-Price Books today. None of them are what I went in looking for (100 Years of Solitude and The Lovely Bones, if you're curious), but I'm pretty satisfied with my score. All the paperback fiction was half off (half off being half off, I know), which is AWESOME. Four books for $7, what up what up?

I'm a little afraid that my eyes might be bigger than my stomach, if you know what I mean, with The Second Sex. It's big! And scary! And originally written in French! But I feel like I should read some hardcore second wave feminist lit before starting in on more sparkly, pink third wave books that are mostly referencing and responding to second wave ideas.

If that made zero sense to you, I recommend this really great overview of feminism is the US from Bitch Magazine's website.

On a similar note, today is Equal Pay Day. Equal Pay Day is the day when the average woman catches up to the average man in terms of annual pay. So, the average man works 12 months to earn $44,300, whereas the average woman would have to work another four months to earn that same amount. That's effed up.

Also, I didn't write that Op-Ed article yet, ergh. But I have an early release day tomorrow, so I'll have lots of time to get to it, theoretically. I will do it!