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Monday, 17 April 06 :: i've noticed a few things about myself.

what makes a perfect start for the day?

a cold cup of sweet coffee. not sweet like 'nice' but sweet like 'lots of sugar or artificial sugar.'
a fresh (made the night before) glass of carrot / apple juice.
a water bottle full of water with 2 emergen'c packets.
iron tablets.

seriously, it may sound like a lot, but i've noticed that incorporating all these things into my morning breakfast time make the rest of the day a hell of a lot easier. tommorrow? i've got all but the juice. i need to clean my kitchen in order to be able to make the juice.

on that note. its time to go to bed. but before i sign off.. i'm going to leave you with this -- its for my peace friends. my friends who are out there on the streets doing the difficult work of organizing day in and day out. its such thankless work and the victories are far fewer and further apart than the day to day victories i get in the work that i'm doing now. i know i don't seem very appreciative, but i am, terribly. thank you my friends....

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death, I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. ~Anne Frank, August 1, 1944

g'nighty night. see you in the morning.

posted by brooke at April 17, 2006 11:28 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.