Rosio Pavoris

Went to get my grades today, turned out pretty much as expected.
It’s looking unlikely I’ll be switching to the KUL next year, even though I’d be getting my Master’s in the same year (Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science requires an extra year to catch up, compared to a regular Computer Science degree; if I went with the shortened program, I’d be getting my Bachelor’s in Computer Science in the same year I’d be getting my Bachelor’s in Applied CS if I didn’t switch, and I’d be getting my Master’s a year earlier).

Also, I bought Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, because it occured to me I’d never read anything by Sir Rushdie, and Philip Roth’s Everyman, because I had a 12 € discount card, and Shalimar was less than that.

It’s odd how much cheaper fiction is than non-fiction. The average fiction book seems to cost about 10 €, which includes a 21% luxury tax, while non-fiction (of comparable size, so mostly popular science, not textbooks) tends to start at 20 €, even though taxes on them are much lower.
Maybe it’s because there are a lot of domestic publishers willing to print fiction in English, but almost none willing to print non-fiction, so I’ve been buying imported books.
I’ll look into that.

Albino animals are awesome. So are animals with “cock” in their names.