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Tuesday, 6 June 06 :: i have a home in logan

my new kitchen
i do. i have a new home. and its in logan, utah. its 2 bedroom, 1000 square feet and i can bring 2 cats. :( thats the sad part. but the happy part?

oh, there's lots of happy.

its a new start.
its a 15 minute bike ride from the university.
there will be no place in the new home that i've attempted suicide.
its a new start.
its HUGE.
my landlord has not revolted at the thought that i'm moving from eugene, oregon.
its close enough to the u that i'll be able to walk or bike.
its a new start.
gas and water are included.
there are no smokers anywhere.
its 2 bedrooms, so friends and loved ones from both eugene and the southeast us will be able to visit me.
its a new start.
its 12 hours from eugene. and because the rent is cheap enough i can put money away to save to drive home to eugene. and maybe even fly.
the cats will have plenty of space to run.
my landlord likes it quiet and he lives next door.
basic phone is cheap. and because i already have a dsl modem my dsl service will be even cheaper.
did i mention its 2 bedrooms? so that i can have loved ones visit, AND an office. so that way i can take a break from work. on occassion.
its a new start. not that i don't have one already here in eugene, but its a new living start. and hopefully i will be as successful with that as i have been in the work world.

i'm very excited in this moment. i'll do my best to wait till i get to logan to cry. i want to enjoy all this here some more.

posted by brooke at June 6, 2006 12:01 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.