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Wednesday, 12 July 06 :: this and that

i'm in the process of filling out yet another heart of now questionaire. yep, i'm going to go put myself through the process of being a student in the course, yet again. i seem to do this a lot. why am i doing this to myself so soon before i leave? i want to be waited on hand and foot. huh? yes. i expect to be waited on hand AND foot. seriously. i expect back rubs, my meals made FOR me (not BY me), people to hold me if i cry, and people to laugh with me when (not IF) i laugh. i also hope to deal with some fear issues that i have about this move, and some sadness also attached to the move. its going to be good stuff and i look forward to spending a weekend with old friends and making new ones as well.

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its a crazy time at LEAD right now. i've got so much going on you'd think I didn't have just a short time left there. but today was a good day. i got the final draft of a $27,000 grant i'm writing sent to final draft readers (big boss chick, teen center co-coordinators) and that feels really good. i also finished a lot of stuff for the end of year celebration, and i got notice in my email that i've secured a donation for an incredibly powerful fundraising database. assistant director and i are going to sit down next week and see about uploading data into it. i wish i were going to be here longer, becaus i'd really like to spend time teaching assistant director how to use it. but i'm not, and so i imagine i'll be spending time from afar helping her with things. anyhow, it felt good to get those 2 things done.

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anything else? i'm still doing these bike rides at night. i hope that i can find a nice place to do these evening rides in logan, as i really do notice a change in my mental state after i go on them. i'm able to process a lot and sort though things. i'm even finding that evenings that i don't want to go out, i get myself to go out. i never regret it, even if its just for a short ride like tonight -- a short loop to alton baker and back. in the rain, but that didn't bother me at all. i'm an oregonian (moving to utah) i love the rain!

posted by brooke at July 12, 2006 12:18 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.