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Tuesday, 10 January 06 :: a good day

i want to mark this moment, how good i feel.

it was a good day. stressful this morning, but i had support. i'm having surgery in a week. breast reduction. i'm not writing much about it because it is a stressful thing for me, but its happening, and this morning at the presurgery consult i got to share a joke with my friend who went with me. my friend is also my new boss, so when the doc said -- you'll have to take 2, maybe 3 weeks off, will that be okay with your boss, i just turned to her, and asked. and the look on his face, and the nurse's was just priceless. i got quite the chuckle from that one, so i wanted to write that down here so i'll remember that. thanks m, thanks for sharing the laugh with me.

and tonight. this is the email i sent to my friend (and new boss):

hey m,
i'm just getting home from group

. poor p, i stopped by to see about when would be a good time for me to go over the refreshment book with her, and i just started leaking at the seems about my night. leaking? thats a strange word, i didn't cry, i was more giddy. anyhow, my point. i just realized that -- as arundhati roy so eloquently put -- another world is possible, but unlike what she says, i can't just hear her breathing, i can see her living. maybe thats a bit too much praise, maybe i'm just super giddy because the laughter tonight was a wonderful high, but there's something you've got with this organization that most people, even people as close to it as p, can't seem to see is actually possible. i wouldn't have believed it if i weren't there in it. you'll probably continue to hear this kind of praise from me, you'll just have to get used to it.
love, me

i just needed to mark this. i needed to keep it for myself.

posted by brooke at January 10, 2006 09:35 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.