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Monday, 4 April 05 :: morning has broken...

nearly. :)

one advantage of this daylight savings time.. work is over an hour early! hahahahahaha

okay, i know, i also have to be here an hour earlier. and be awake an hour earlier as well :P

no, i am not a morning person.

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eugene folks. catch this in the next few hours..
eyes wide open. its a not miss. i don't care what side of the war you are on. peace people need to see it, esp. those who don't have much compassion for the soldiers... and war people need to see it- you need to see the costs of the war.

i walked in and i could just feel my heart open. it just fell open. i couldn't help it.

one of my newest friends, carol, who i just adore.. she's the volunteer coordinator. she said to me 'its like being at a 2 day funeral.'

i couldn't have said it better.

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the pope. yes, i've been following the death of the pope. if only i were more with it this morning. hormones have got my body all out of whack. hey! i *am* very fertile!

but back to the pope.

i'm not catholic, and goddess.. some of the things that man said i vehemently disagreed with. but i have to respect the loss that many of my fellow beings are feeling at this moment. i have to respect what he stood for to so many people. i have to respect the loss present in so many of the pilgrims eyes. i have to.

my best wishes to those of you who are feeling this loss.

in my community many will feel that kind of loss when the dalai lama dies. i only hope that those who are mourning now will respect those who feel the tremendous loss when that man dies.

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okay. back to work.

posted by brooke at April 4, 2005 11:00 AM

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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.