my motto, pretty much, was always, work hard, but not too hard. that motto has gotten me a pretty decent life.
when i was in school, i didn't give a rat's hoo-ha what my class rank was. i cared what my rankin was, but not my rank.
i could have had a higher class rank if i'd wanted it, but i didn't. i wanted to have an adequate class rank, but not a high one. a high class rank would have, in my case anyway, meant too much studying. my motto, pretty much, was always, study hard, but not too hard.
i could have been a straight A student, but that sounded boring to me. i have always been the "variety is the spice of life" type, and so it naturally followed that i thought a few Bs and even an occasional C - gasp! - would liven up things a bit.
i even got a D once. in chemistry. but hell, the way i looked at it, everybody gets a D in chemistry. i mean, don't they? well, besides mark smith, maybe. ok, and sam petroff. sam petroff probably never got a D in chemistry. but everybody else did. well, not bill mclemore. bill mclemore probably got teacher's pet in chemistry.
but, besides mark smith and sam petroff and bill mclemore, everybody got Ds in chemistry.
well, not sarah raup. and not mim wolf. ok, so lisa nave probably never got a D in chemistry. but every. body. else. did.
not pris levine.
not mark hard.
but. every. body. else.
not mark ryman.
so, anyway.......since nobody except one or two people ever got higher than a D in chemistry, i figured, why should i. besides, who needs to know chemistry in order to cook.
i mean, right?
