"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


Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Naps!

~I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~Jonathan Swift

Ah! Took a two hour nap that I hadn't planned on... guess I was pretty tired. And now it's already seven and I haven't even started my two research papers! But I think I needed that :) I was really really tired trying to do my homework earlier. Haha, and maybe the earplugs had something to do with it being peaceful enough for me to fall asleep.

I love naps. Ya, I chunk of my day is gone when I sleep for two or three hours. But many times it's worth it. I feel like I can jump back into homework-at least a little bit. And maybe I can stay up a little later because I had a little more sleep earlier.

Man, this post is sounding like my writing for school! It's corrupting me! Like the other day I was at the store and reading a sentence in the newspaper and I was parsing it out in my head and trying to figure out if the modifier was in the right place... how sad. Though that may be good-getting practice and what not. Haha, but now even when I write in my journal I am more careful about subject length and modifier placement. Kind of sad that kind of practice isn't what's going to help me on my final...

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