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Thursday, 9 February 06 :: whats on my mind?

>> this squeezing of my head into a new shape is really hard. huh? yeah, learning how to work with teens the way the non-profit i do some work with does is pretty hard. i mean, it sounds easy and logical.. but in practice? jezzus. making sure i get it right, making sure that the teens don't feel overpowered, yet making sure that needs to get done gets done.. its a difficult task. meeting needs of both teens and adults.

>> i'm having a difficult conversation with a friend tommorrow. fuck. yeah, the simple clearing that happened the other day between me and c was hard enough, but to hear some of the things friend r may say to me tommorrow.. well, thats difficult to think about. and its difficult to think about everything i have to say to her, but to know that tommorrow isn't the time to say everything. anyhow. this friendship means a lot to me, and i'm likely to hear that it doesn't mean as much to her, not like i'd originally thought. *sigh* oh, and after r and i talk i have to head to a meeting at the non-profit i work with. and there's even more to that story, but that would ruin all semblances of confidentiality because of .. nevermind. but later in the day r and i have a knitting date with a friend of hers who is becoming a friend of mine. anyhow. difficult conversation = not a lot of fun.

that said, its bedtime.

i wonder if emilin had the baby? i hope so. and i hope s/he, emilin and brooke (a different brooke) are all healthy and happy.

and that little girl with cancer -- christi thomas -- i'm continuing to keep her in my prayers. (yes, i pray)

posted by brooke at February 9, 2006 11:36 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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