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Thursday, 11 May 06 :: really? this is news?

one of the first things i hear this morning "USA Today reports NSA building massive phone records database" as i turned on the tv for my regular early morning dosage brainless tv news -- you know, all that talking about how i MUST be skinny in order to be loved, and acting like its news that the government has been spying on us for a long time.

seriously y'all, this is really NEWS? haven't the activists been telling you this for a number of years?? *sigh* apparently you simply didn't listen. idiots. *sigh*

and for those of you who know me personally and have heard me make the same kind of idiotic statements about peak oil? i'm not an idiot. i know the activists are right. i'm just in denial. there IS a difference, really.

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i'm in kind of a grumpy mood this morning because i only got 6 hours of sleep last night and so i've decided to hide out in the conference room this morning.. but my co-worker just came in and said hi in a very goofy way. that was an incredibly endearing way to start the work day. thanks s.

posted by brooke at May 11, 2006 10:28 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.