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Thursday, 2 December 04 :: new puter, chocolate, and the bor.

i ordered a laptop on credit. i need to build my credit, and i desperately crave something to give me that instant fix to make things all better for my pathetic life and awful depression. what better than a bright shiny new bauble in a dell box?

its supposed to be here A WEEK FROM TOMMORROW. i can't wait. no no no no, i can't wait. i want it now. but, i must wait. so to make the wait better, i'm checking many times a day as to its status. it is currently in production.

in other news.. i ate chocolate today, the real stuff. my body didn't give a shit, but me.. well.. i had a meeting in the shopping center where the candy store that carries the cadbury's imported from england is sold. i was going to go in there cause baba yaga's birthday is coming up, and i wanted to get the english cadbury's for her.. but i decided i needed a treat, so i bought something for me. and then, cause i'm neurotic and self processed our conversation the other day, my anger came up, so i decided to fuck it, and eat not only what i bought for me, but also the bar i bought for her.. *there* take that you !!!, you don't get any chocolate.. i am so, well.. like i said, neurotic, passive agressive, etc.. i'd say its a good thing she doesn't read this space.

anyhow.

had a lane co. bill of rights defense committee meeting. i've known these folks for 1.5 years. it was good to see them, to hear our history brought up in snide comments to each other. ooohh.. that was nice.. to be with people i can make snide remarks too :) because of the personal relationships alone i think i'm going to continue to work with this fine bunch. and it looks like we're headed back to salem.. that was great 1.5 years ago.. i think by the time the state legislature meets again i'll be ready to take that on.

ps. i want this: a metal tryptic of paris with the eifel tower, arc de triumphe and notre dame.. i need to write about my trip there. out of my month in the UK, those were the best 2 days of it. from the eifel tower and the lourve to the jewish quarter on sunday morning.. *sigh* and the magic of notre dame.. i'm not a christian, but i believe that that god exists.. and notre dame, even with all the tourists, was one of the most spiritual places i've ever been. i could feel it everywhere.

*sigh* i wanna be there, NOW.

posted by brooke at December 2, 2004 08:25 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.