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Wednesday, 8 March 06 :: another rough day in the trenches

yep. its a rough day here in the trenches. bad stuff happening to those who we're in the trenches for. goddess. i could say lots of stuff about society and question why it happens, but honestly, i'm rather matter of fact about it and my heart is closed to it. i can't go to the place of sadness i could so easily go to.. its just what is. the past 24 hours have been a huge learning experience, and i now understand why people react the way they do. all i've done is my job, all we've done is try to protect, and we can't. we do what we can.

anyhow. at least it makes me want to stay here in the trenches, to continue to do this work. at least being here and seeing it being thrown at me has only made me want to stand here with these people and hold my shield stronger, make it larger.

*sigh*

on that note, its time to go do some of the necessary administrative work that we must do in order to keep the trenches strong and deep.

posted by brooke at March 8, 2006 01:35 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.

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