"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, February 17, 2011

Facebook Distractions

~How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.
~Bill Copeland

Gah! Homework! I've felt so ahead all week... and I realized I really need to get started on my British lit paper, my French one-page embarrassing moment, memorizing the first 18 lines of the Canterbury Tales, testing starts again in two weeks, and I got an assignment today to memorize a lyric poem... Haha, such fun things to work on!

It's so beautiful outside, yet I'm scared to go sit out there because I don't want to get sick. I'm pretty much paranoid of getting sick. That week I don't remember two weeks ago... ya, determined not to do that again. Not only because missing class sucks (as much as I wish I could say I enjoy it) but also because everything else in life is a million times more difficult.

So here I am, inside, on my bed, trying to cram in as much homework as possible so I can enjoy my three-day weekend at home... and getting very distracted by everything around me. Just gotta say... Facebook is my ultimate distraction. It is always up as a tab on my internet. And I have to flip there all the time. There is the idea that I could close the tab and only check sometimes. And while I feel I'm a person who has some will-power (For as long as I remember I'd bribe myself to do things-like setting a piece of chocolate on my dresser and not letting myself eat it until I cleaned my room...), such a plan does not work. Because I just itch to get on and it's just as much of a distraction.

So food is my motivation. Not sure how healthy that is, but it's true. I promise, I eat enough. Haha, though not always on the best schedule. I'm working on it. And so blogging has become another form of distraction. But at least I feel productive in this respect :)
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