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Friday, 2 June 06 :: *sigh*

i wish i'd moved years ago. seriously, i cannot believe the loudness and crudeness of my drunken next door neighbors. and its not the kind of crudeness that i approve of.. (agh, approve sounds so, ick).. its the sexist kind of crudeness. i should be more forgiving, i know, but after 2 nights of learning stuff about being a better ally i'm having a difficult time being patient with the sexism. *sigh* last night they were glad that all the white people were there learning to be better allies, but frankly, its not people like me who need to be at those discussions (okay, i do, but just go with my point here) -- its people like my neighbors. *sigh* the other day i heard this fellow walk up to my cat max and try to pet him, when max wouldn't acquiesce he called him gay. 'cat must be gay.' i was standing right near the door and i called the guy on it. 'hey, whats wrong with being gay? btw, your neighbor is queer.' the guy shut right up. he simply doesn't know better -- i know that. i wish i had the courage to tell him so right now. *sigh*

posted by brooke at June 2, 2006 07:10 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.