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Thursday, 6 July 06 :: thoughts

its been a day, and i am glad its over. i encountered some difficult situations and had some pretty big emotions about it all. this move is stressful and each day it just seems to become a bit more and more and more. i keep thinking it all must be for a reason. and i am also thinking that i do not have it as hard as some people do. i read blogs like the one that the parents of christi thomas write to keep friends / loved ones and perfect strangers just like me updated about christi's fight with neuroblastoma and i know that really, the decisions i make about this move are pretty small compared. i know, we shouldn't compare, but we can put things in perspective. today as i thought about the decisions i had to make today, thinking about christi's parents and the grace by which they go about their lives while making literally life and death decisions made my day a little less hard. i know all that sounds cliche and stuff, but sometimes cliche lessons can really make a point. thanks thomas team, really, thank you.

otherwise, other than all that i took another bike ride under the oregon moon. i am getting really attached to that moon these days. its absolutely beautiful. and tonight there was a sunset and lyle lovett's voice coming from cuthbert amiptheatre. who knew that a girl could dance on her bike? i didn't know till tonight. what a nice discovery to make. *happy sigh*

i'm anticipating this move more and more. while i'm sad to leave my friends, and a bit scared and worried about this next adventure, i have some excitement. i got to talk to my friend j yesterday about education stuff, and it was a nice reminder what i'm going to go do. j and i are going to go hiking and as she put it -- keep talking about all that fun stuff. thanks sweet j, thanks for the reminder about what i get to go study. fun stuff. yeah. i've got adventures ahead of me. adventures in a beautiful part of the country. hmm. gotta wonder -- what do the wasatch mountains look like lit up by a full moon? *smile* aren't i a lucky girl? i get to go find out.

posted by brooke at July 6, 2006 11:38 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.