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Monday, 31 January 05 :: what should i be doing?

i should be calling the dentist right now. why? because a significant portion of a filling fell out over the weekend. no, it doesn't hurt, but i could do more damage to the tooth if i don't get it fixed. but. the dentist is likely to want to put a crown on it. and guess what? i don't have the $ for a crown right now. no, no i don't. plus when i go in i'm going to get a big lecture about needing a cleaning. yes, yes, i know. i need a cleaning. but i don't have the $$ right now. read: i don't have dental insurance. and i don't have a job. and there are really no jobs in eugene to be found. lots of people i know are struggling for work in this place.

so, i'm not calling the dentist. though mom says that she had a similiar situation and she told the dentist she didn't have the $$ and they were able to work something out for her poor tooth. different dentist, cross country, maybe they'll do something else for the tooth. i can only hope.

oh, and have i mentioned i'm going into the computer training / freelance web design business? i can do both. i'm okay at both. i'm cheap too. mom is going to help me pay for an ad in the paper. no, i don't want to work for myself, its awfully lonely *and* work never ends.. but in a place with no jobs, its really the only thing to do.

*sigh*

posted by brooke at January 31, 2005 01:05 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.