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Thursday, 10 March 05 :: here there and everywhere. its about growth.

i have thoughts to write down, but i truly don't have the time to create thoughtful thoughts to write down.

i'm going back to school. august of 2006 i'll be back in school. i'm looking forward to it. i'm glad that i have a plan. and i'm glad that my friends are glad i'll be here for another 1.5 years. and i'm glad that i have a lot of time to get used to the fact. and i'm glad that i'm excited about going back to school to get my ph.d. its rather surreal, and i'm worried.. but i've got 1.5 years to get used to all that. and to get fully ready. everyone around me knows that my constitution has tended to lean towards the weak side, but that i have potential for it not too. if i take the proper steps as i take this new step it should all work out. as long as i know i have a way out, i can move forward. it was not having a way out that stopped me from paddling class V rapids. i need that valve, i need to know that if the pressure gets to great i can say STOP. as long as i have that, i can generally move forward pretty well.

i've thought a lot about growth, and i thought i'd write about it, but something in my gut is saying STOP. so, i'm listening.

on that note, its time for bed.

posted by brooke at March 10, 2005 10:50 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.