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Sunday, 9 April 06 :: lucky girl

i am a lucky girl. yes. i am. i remember at one point in my life i just took advantage of those who loved me, but now.. i will never be that person again. no, i won't. the support i am getting from my family of birth, from those who love me here in eugene.. its simply amazing. emotionally and financially. yes, i am a lucky girl and i will never ever stop counting my blessings, and being grateful for each and every one of them. *contented sigh*

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i was talking to someone the other day about my life and how i got to where i am, and she made some remark about it.. wondering how she could get what i have. and i looked at her and told her briefly of the hell i've been through to get where i am today. when i told her she said -- you should tell the teens about your story. i'm not sure if its a good idea, but i do know i have a story to tell. the time seems right to start writing it, and i think i will. maybe i'll put it here when i finish. i don't know how long it'll take me to finish, because it feels like a long story. hopefully it'll be shorter than i think it is.

posted by brooke at April 9, 2006 01:47 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.