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Sunday, 27 March 05 :: goddess knows, its about perspective.

i had a post here about being bitchy about dealing with people who don't know webstuff and having to explain and reexplain things to them..

but then i talked to my aunt. and my dad.

yep, the 2 out of 3 children of my grandmother that have cancer. my aunt is having a hysterectomy tommorrow, my dad continues with his day to day treatment. why deal with meaningless politics when i'd rather talk to my family? yes, at my young age of 32 i really do know what matters. my family matters.

i would rather talk to my family than argue with someone about a website, esp. when i'm more than willing to walk away from that project. if i have to politic with someone, i'd rather just walk away and call my family.

yes. i nearly cried talking to both of them. yes, when i talked to my aunt, as she was getting off the phone-- goddess knows she was tired and probably didn't want to deal with a 32 year old crying neice-- i asked her something important.

goddess knows, i'd rather talk to my aunt than politic with someone. goddess knows i would rather just walk away and head to cougar then try to politic my way up some ladder that i'll be moving away from in 17 months anyways. goddess knows cancer gives things a perspective that we should be able to get without that damn disease.

and goddess.. thank the goddess that operating now involves masks, and really bright lights.

baba operating

not like when my grandmother was a nurse. :)

posted by brooke at March 27, 2005 04:48 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.