If she wants to rock, she rocks. And if she wants to roll, she rolls.

Today I wanted to rock, which is why I spent the better part of the morning listening to "Rock and Roll" by Eric Hutchinson (he is a vh1 "You Oughta Know" artist) and my new favorite (and possibly catchiest ever recorded) song, "Womanizer" by Britney Spears.

Then I went to the bank and to the oncologist's office for bloodwork. Ick. Luckily, though, it came back amazing (I expected nothing less). I don't have to go back until the second week in January, which makes me extremely happy.

Barnes and Noble was next on my list of places to go, and even though I didn't really NEED to buy myself a book, I couldn't resist picking up "The Know-it-All" by A.J. Jacobs. I finished his "The Year of Living Biblically" last night and it was incredible. I highly recommend it.

On another note, I started doing my analysis for my third rhetoric paper today. Before I go on about my amazing findings, I just have to take a brief moment to say how disgusted I am that we (we = the students in CN. 312) are forced to sacrifice our Thanksgiving breaks because we are obligated to write 10-12 pages on speech analyses. There are seriously so many other things I'd like to be doing instead of this paper. I mean, there is a "What Not to Wear" marathon on Friday beginning at 9 a.m. that I would have loved to watch, but no. I have to sit here at the computer, surrounded by papers and printouts and books because Dr. Watts hates us and never wants us to have free time or fun or frivolity in our lives.

Anyway, I am analyzing celebrity college commencement speeches, and I found some freaking amazing quotes in some of them that I just had to share.

• "Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine...is quite strong. Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may." - John Stewart.
  
  
• "Life outside of college is just like life in it: one nutty thing after another, some of them horrible, but all interspersed with enough beauty and goodness to keep you going." - Tom Hanks. (Notice how I got my blog title from this quote :) )
  
  
• "Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all -- in which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling.
  

Woah, right? I wish I could come up with some mind-bogglingly good quote like those. One day. Not today, though, since I am not feeling too smart (let's face it: listening to Britney Spears' over-synthesized voice for over three hours doesn't exactly lend itself to brilliance). And tomorrow I will be thinking about how I can possibly arrange to eat my body weight in turkey and cranberry sauce. The next day, though, Friday, could be promising. I will keep you posted.