You can call me cheap if you want, and you would be right, but I just really like getting free and cheap stuff. So when I went to the library's used book store today on a whim, imagine my delight when I found myself able to purchase:

-Two Brandenburg Concertos in mini-score
-Strunk's Source Readings in Music History--the complete version!! of course, also the first edition, copyright 1950, but still...
-Both volumes of The Norton Scores: An Anthology for Listening ("Gregorian Chant to Beethoven" and "Schubert to Davidovsky")
-the Norton Anthology of Western Music Volume II: Classic-Romantic-Modern
-Stefan Kostka's Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music
-and the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

...all in excellent condition, for $9.
Also, the latest dumpster acquisition is a lamp. I thought it looked rather ornate and pretty, so I picked it up. When Sara was over, I hadn't even plugged it in yet, so I hadn't thought much about it, but she pointed out two things. First, that it's one of those lamps where you just touch any part of it and it turns off or on! That's awesome! Second, that it's "kinda girly." I hadn't thought about that, either, but, upon further inspection, she's right, as usual.