I usually bite the bullet, but my roomates have had success in buying the previous edition of textbooks for like $1 on Amazon...the different edition is usually almost the exact same thing--at least in stuff like Econ.

I've read Crime and Punishment and The Odyssey, both are well worth reading.

I've never been a huge IPA fan, I like hoppy beers, just not THAT hoppy or sort of sour. I've had one at Townhouse brewery in Minneapolis called the Imperial IPA that was about 10% alcohol and pure hops. It destroys your taste buds. If I have to pick a beer, it will be an amber more often than not. Honkers is great because it has that great amber taste, similar to Fat Tire, but is more hoppy, and a bit less malty.

On a different note, I wish I was still living in Europe where I could get a great bottle of wine for a couple Euro. Much harder to find good wine for cheap in the states. Also, you cannot get Luxembourgish white wine or sparkling wine here, which sucks. I have to make do with French reds, but even they are a lot more expensive.

New Belgium has just recently, in the last year or so, been making its way to Chicago. So now I don't need to do any bootlegging to get myself a Fat Tire. It is in my top 3 favorite beers, and since I drink beer about 75% of the time, that answers the OP's question. Their new light beer Skinny Dip is also great, and one of the best light beers I have ever had.

Also, there is a Chicago microbrewer called Goose Island that makes some great beers. The Honker's Ale in particular is excellent. The 312 and Nut Brown are very good as well.

143 Scryb Sprites. I can't remember why I started collecting them. I don't put a whole lot of effort into it, but that's the end result.

'lo. My name is Matt. I've been lurking for a while, and I finally decided to register. I started playing around Urza's Saga, left about when Prophecy came out, then have slowly been getting back in since Time Spiral. I have an unnatural hatred for counterspells and generally refuse to play blue. I guess one would call me a Timmy-Spike. I want to win, but not with Islands. Basically, the card that most symbolizes my preferred form of play would be Pain // Suffering. I don't play in many tournaments, mainly drafts when I do. Casually, my collection and my friends' fit into Legacy best, so we tend to play that.