"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

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Elevator or Stairs

~Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey

Well, another day of school... I understood almost all of French class today! And then the one activity I didn't understand in the least bit I got called on for. Good thing I know how to say, "I don't know." Honestly, I think it's pretty lazy how the French teachers work. They just go through activity after activity in the book and tell us to switch partners.

My British Lit. class is in the basement of one of the buildings. After class I had to head up to the fourth floor to the teacher's office to meet with her for the start of the semester. I planned on using the elevator but the button wouldn't stay lit up and the elevator wasn't moving from the third floor.

So, I took the stairs. What the heck, it's good exercise, right? Ya, my legs were burning and I was pretty much hyperventilating by the time I got to the third floor. It. Was. Pathetic.

It was a good thing I was a few minutes early so I had a minute to catch my breath and bring my heart rate down before I talked to my teacher-for a whole of two minutes during which I told her I didn't have any questions... so not worth the trip up the stairs.

I went to the elevator at the other corner of the building to go down :)

So that's my story of the day! Ah, I have ten pages of reading for American Lit. left tonight and then I'm caught up in all my classes this week besides what's due Friday! Which is good, but also makes me feel very unproductive since I don't want to get so far ahead that I won't remember what I read for the class cuz I did it so long ago-if that makes sense.
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  1. Corey WilkeyJanuary 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM

    haha you are funny! i admire your efforts! lol i would probably take the stairs. i usually do, actually. i dont like the elevator.

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