Quote of the Day Aug. 20

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.   -John Maynard Keynes

Quote of the Day Aug. 19

There are obviously two educations.  One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.   -James Truslow Adams

Quote of the Day Aug. 18

Might as well do it for weekends too

I invent nothing, I rediscover.   -Auguste Rodin

Quote of the Day Aug. 17

If I cannot overwhelm it with my quality, I will overwhelm it with my quantity. -Emile Zola

The Nicest Place on the Internet

This is truly the nicest place around.  A place where people from around the world give hugs to complete strangers just to make them feel better.

http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/

Quote of the Day Aug. 16

I am thinking of starting a week day thing of blogging a quote.  I'll see how that works for a week or so and decide if I want to keep at it.

Formula for Success: rise early, work hard, strike oil -J. Paul Getty

Additional Thoughts on the Montaigne/Austen Essay

1)I would have done more planning at the start of the essay to make sure I was staying on track with the prompt.  I feel that in being rushed, I messed up the prompt and lost the gist of what I was writing.
2)After I left, I knew that my essay was going to be rushed and not very good.  The interruption messed up my essay.
3)The interruption completely screwed with my thought process. By the time I got back, I wasn't even thinking about the essay anymore.  I would rather redo the essay once more and have a better time than have interruptions in the middle of the essay.