Back to normal life, and free audio books on iTunes

Time to resume my "regular" life again. I mean, as much as I can considering that the US of A is still in a pretty dang awful economic situation, I don't have a job, my college loan payments will be kicking in a few months from now...and I've just completed a summer crash course in wedding-attending and bridesmaid-being. (Talk about exhausting. Though on the plus side, there are three happy married couples resulting from this summer's madness. Score.)

But you know, this state of uncertainty has become the new normal in my life. So, to rephrase my first statement, its time to resume my Regular Life - RECESSION STYLE - again.

On a happier topic...free audio books! On iTunes, too, and not just in computer-only format! (Although those things can still be useful, too. There's a time and place for everything.)

To indulge in all your free audio book fantasies, go to the Lit2Go website after opening iTunes. Mosey on down to #4 on the Lit2Go website and click on "Launch iTunes." There are oodles of books, presented by the University of South Florida, that correspond to someone's notion of what students in certain grades should be reading.

(Little Women is listed under Seventh Grade. I read it between Second and Third. But they also throw tons of Shakepeare at Eleventh Graders, and while Eleventh Graders are certainly able to read Shakespeare, I know that I couldn't have handled all that in one year. So who knows where these standards come from.)

I guess getting free audio-books is "eco-friendly" (although, truly, I am firmly in favor of books made out of paper, as out-of-vogue as they may be in this green world we now live in). And, need I say, FREE. So does this qualify as sufficiently anti-materialistic to be part of my let's-try-to-learn-not-to-be-so-materialistic shtick, enough so that I might label this post as such?

Of course, I derive great satisfaction from owning these free audio books, so that I may listen to them whenever I want to and have a personal library, of sorts. That's kind of materialistic.

But this post needs to be described somehow. I don't feel like inventing another label tonight. Therefore, TAG!