Stop Me Before I Shop Again!

OK, see, this is why I never have any money.

I was sitting here, thinking about TV shows, as is my wont, when it suddenly occured to me, hey, isn't the second season of Buffy supposed to be out on DVD in June? And isn't it, well, nearly June, at any rate? I decided I couldn't stand it any longer, and high-tailed off to Amazon to pre-order the bloody thing. Well, you know, Amazon has this special free shipping offer if you buy more than $99 worth of stuff. And, gee, the Buffy discs were nearly $50, so I was practically halfway there already, right? And, honestly, even if I tell myself I'm not going to buy anything else in the near future, I know myself well enough to know that's probably a lie, and I'm better off buying whatever I'm going to buy all at once so I can get the free shipping instead of in lots of smaller orders I'll have to pay extra for. Right?

Honestly, is this the reasoning of an addict or what?

Anyway, in additon to the Buffy discs, I ended up shelling out for:

The two-volume Eugenics Wars series by Greg Cox. I don't read many Star Trek novels any more (because frankly too many of them suck), but I've liked the other books I've read from this author, and the premise sounds really, really interesting.

The new Rush album. Well, I had to have this. Period.

The latest Transmetropolitan graphic novel. This is a wonderfully twisted series, to which I've become moderately addicted. I'm not gonna buy it in comic book form, though. I don't like the comic book format. 40 pages of reading followed by a cliffhanger is not my idea of happiness.

Now, hopefully that should tide me over until August, when the Lord of the Rings disc and the Wrath of Khan Director's Edition come out...