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Sunday, 1 January 06 :: significant

i didn't have any plans today for new years eve, until i got home from errands and there was a message from a friend inviting me out to lost valley for a party out there. right after i talked to her i talked to another friend who lives out there, and was told to stop by their place since i was going to be there. i ended up skipping the party i was originally invited out for and spent the evening reflecting on memorable moments of 2005 and playing a rousing game of mexican train. i had a blast. really. around 11.30 or so i realized that i was going to be bringing in the new year in that very spot, surrounded by those people. i don't think i could have brought the new year in in a more perfect place. yes, it feels terribly significant to me, and my transitional life, that it was at lost valley that i saw 2006 for the first time. *breathe* it feels like a good omen for the new year. a terribly good omen.

posted by brooke at January 1, 2006 12:48 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.