"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Procrastination

~Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
~Robert Benchley

I have no clue what to write about. I have all these things that I've been trying not to think about-they keep coming to mind today.

Like how I'm super excited and super scared to go to France. I just feel inadequate and undeserving of the opportunity. I know I should be studying and getting everything together. I need to take an oral interview... like last month. But my biggest worries lie with money :/

Alright, so BYU will work with me waiting for financial aid and scholarships. My program payments are past due but I can deal with that. I can't access any of my money until the end of August. I leave September 8th. I need a plan ticket... soon? :) Those are expensive! But I'm excited about going through BYU travel cuz they can get me on a plane with others in my group-and hopefully seats by them.

And then there are about a gillion little things I wanted to get done this summer-and summer's almost half over. I wanted to type up ALL my journals. I wanted to have my room really cleaned and organized-and change my blinds and put a cute curtain in front of my closet... I wanted to do all these fun summer things and get a tan early in the year.

Oh ya, and then there's the job thing. I know I should have one. Not only do I need the money and "work experience" for future job applications, I also feel like I just should. It's one of two things people ask me anymore at church-if I'm going to school and if I have a job. A lot of it is, "So what have you been doing?" when they find out I'm not taking classes. What do I say? "Oh, sleeping, eating junk food, watching TV, and doing the occasional productive thing"? Maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion, but it is frustrating.

Ya, I know I still have more than two months to get things done... it's just kind of depressing to look at how little I've gotten done so far. And being a procrastinator doesn't help :)
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