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Sunday, 1 May 05 :: what a luxury!

i'm outside on my lawn. i love wireless!

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my mom called just a bit ago. i love my ma. she assures me that even though i'm not studying for the gre, it is not a sign of my committment to getting my phd. yeah, if we don't have a deadline, its hard to motivate.

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i've taken great refuge in reading over the last week. great refuge. i read incessantly these days. i'm cukrrently reading 2 books. i'm half way through one and a quarter of the way through the other.. i checked them out of the library yesterday, less than 24 hours ago. mom says -- you've always read a lot. i say -- reading is a great refuge, a great escape. fiction and non-fiction, please. but reality based fiction, no sci-fi or mysteries. don't like that much fantasy or suspense.

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next weekend i'm going to heart of now, re: naka-ima. i told ma -- its hippy-dippy touchy feely crap. but friends have done it, and being that i'm in the land of the hippy-dippy, i might as well act like the local i'm becoming. ma says it'll be good, i agree.

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whats on the agenda for the rest of today? i think i'll go for a bike ride. i've been eating incessantly as well as reading. luckily i was sick for a couple of weeks, so this eating is only putting on pounds i lost a couple of weeks ago. luckily my body is craving something that it normally doesn't -- vegetables, eggs, protein. yeah, my body is changing.. it knows what is good for it--- activity and healthy foods. yeah, its easier to give it crappy food.. we're battling to see who wins.. frankly, i'm rooting for it and not me.

whats on the rest of the agenda? not much. i need to update pete's website, i need to read some more. i need to get eggs cause my body wants those instead of peanut butter and honey for breakfast--- and not the eggs from winco-- cheap, but they were neon! ick. i'm also heading to my friend peter's house for a movie about iraq. i could skip the movie, but frankly i could use the company, and peter is a good friend.. he said to me the other day 'i remember what its like to be single, its lonely.' yeah, peter, it is, but luckily i've got friends who haven't forgotten.

posted by brooke at May 1, 2005 02:03 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.

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