"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, January 13, 2011

Another Thursday :)

~The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

~Guy Finley


Ah, had a wonderful day yesterday! I got to go to dinner with my brother who was close by where I live because of school :) It was great to talk to him.

And I went on a date :) He drove the 45-50 minutes to Provo last night. It had been nine days since I'd seen him and I miss him so much. So it was a wonderful surprise!

Best part about today? My French teacher let us out 20 minutes early so we could go to the University Forum. Condoleezza Rice spoke. I got there 25 minutes before it started and sat, like, four rows from the top of the Marriott Center-never been up that high before. I really enjoyed her talk :)

I also had the first part of my British Literary History rolling final today... yep, four days of class... It was only really on Beowulf-which I didn't particularly enjoy. I looked on the syllabus and those 5 questions today were worth 5% of my grade. So... each was 1% of my final grade. That is kind of scary. Haha, especially since I was really unsure about one question.

I'm SO excited to go home this weekend! To see everyone and meet my new nephew! I'm a little ahead on homework-but I have two assignments tonight that I'm really worried about-I am so totally lost. So that'll be fun!

And I just have to say that I LOVE Taylor Swift! Amazing music! And thank goodness for YouTube! So I can listen to my favorite songs over and over again :)
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