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Monday, 23 May 05 :: still struggling

so, i identify as straight. at a meeting the other day i was talking about a group called the equality network that is focused on lgbtqi issues, and how i am involved as an ally. it was the first time in public that i had ever referred to myself as an ally of the lgbtqi community. it felt good, but it

aww crap. that doesn't matter right now. i just found out that a co-worker's brother died. i'm sorry z. i really am. i don't know how it feels, i can only imagine, and just that tears my heart out.

if y'all will, just know that someone i've become fond of over the last few months is in a lot of pain. she's a good woman. compassionate and kind. send some healing energy towards a kind stranger who could really use it right now.

posted by brooke at May 23, 2005 09:25 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.