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Tuesday, 12 April 05 :: on this phd thing

i just sent this to my ma, along with a link..

i've been thinking a lot about my quest for love and family and my beginning of my journey towards my phd. even if i met mr. right tommorrow and he wanted to settle down in eugene and have a family right now, i'd have to ask him to wait. i need to do this ph.d. thing for me, i'll be a better person afterwards, i'll better be able to take care of myself and kid if something were to happen to him. i really do want to do this, if i don't try i'll feel like i've missed out on something. even with my heart yelling at me to get a family, i know that this must come first.

piled higher and deeper

posted by brooke at April 12, 2005 01:21 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.