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Friday, 16 September 05 :: "if i remember to breathe, everything gets a lot more clear.."

its been a long and stressful week, and the upcoming week promises to be the same. i didn't get everything done i ment too...... because i was struck down by some virus in my throat. it exhausted me to an end i hadn't discovered in a long time, and i felt worse than i've felt in years (at least physically). to that end, i didn't get done what i needed to get done for myself, and for work. but i did come to a conclusion or two.

i'm going to drop everything except for 3 things right now: work, studying for the gre, and stuff at lost valley. as i wrote to a friend this week, work is for financial well being, the gre is for my future well being, and lost valley is for my present and emotional well being. it felt good to make that decision, it feels like i might be able to slow down a bit.....

.....and breathe.

posted by brooke at September 16, 2005 08:09 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.