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That's been my day. (3) mistakes that cost the design department a double in Design No Charges for the year. (1) mis-speced item (well actually it was 12 tables but all speced wrong) and (1) poorly worded compliment "you look very elf-y today" My response (because he is short) "takes one to know one". 5 things in one day- put my Dramatic personality in full effect. CRAZY? Yes. But this all goes back to the whole "unable to handle defeat very-well" thing that I suffer from. This is what I created to keep people away from my poison today. The Wall of Shame in front of my office/cube. (reads at the bottom "you may want to rethink working with this elf--Geoff that is not a compliment). BUT- THEN I recieved this in an email:

It is not the critic who counts; nor the man who points out how the strong man (woman) stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man (woman) who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself (herself) in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end, the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he (she) fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his (her) place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.---Theodore Roosevelt

I feel better. Or maybe just OK.

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