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Friday, 27 May 05 :: i wish i could go into it..

but i can't.

my community is going through a blendering.. a blendering?? .. well, throw lots of stuff in, turn it on, and see what happens.

*sigh*

a better thing to say would be -- there is high drama in the seas of my part of the eugene progressive community. the winds are blowing, the boats are being tossed about, a harsh sun is beating down on heads kept bowed to the pressure of the drama.

hearts are being broken, and processed. tears are being shed and wiped away. voices are straining to be used to a greater degree than normal. souls are being washed and hung out to dry.

we're all tired. okay, maybe not all of us, but a lot of us. and i think we're just smack in the middle of it. i know some are just at the beginning.

*sigh*

i really do feel for us. the catalyst that has hit us to speed up normal reactions is huge. i don't know what it is, but the more i search out from my usual circle of friends, i'm finding remenants of the catalyst.. or a different one.. but the same type of thing going on.

*sigh*

i'm exhausted. while most people are off playing this weekend, i'll be off working. campaign meetings and all sorts of other insundry things to take care of. lots of it.

*sigh*

okay. tired.

posted by brooke at May 27, 2005 12:16 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.