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Wednesday, 15 March 06 :: up, awake. gotta get movin'

seriously. i'm up, i'm awake. (i didn't get to sleep till waay late last night, waaay early this morning) i gotta move. i got a lot on my list of things to do today, and today is the day i must get through my to do list. i've not done that in too long of a time. *sigh*

spent time with my friend p yesterday. haven't spent time with just p without daughter t in a long time. it was really nice. p is family. i mean, really, p is family. p is more than just a friend, she's more like a sister. and her daughter t, goddess i love that little girl. i mean, i miss her when i don't see her in awhile. sometimes i stop by their house just because (and i tell them this) i need to hug t. t is a strong willed, high strung child. this doesn't make her the easiest kid to be around sometimes.. but you know what? i don't care. even in those moments, i love her, i mean, really love her. those moments are moments for me to learn to be with her better, to be with myself better. those hard moments with t only make me a better person, learning to better able deal with difficult moments with others, and with myself.

okay, i'm babbling. at some point i need to write about how i simply can't imagine my life without p and t in it on a nearly daily basis. really, i'm having a difficult time seeing myself living a life where i can't just stop by their house at a whim. that doesn't make this utah thing a very happy prospect. *sigh*

posted by brooke at March 15, 2006 09:22 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.