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Wednesday, 30 August 06 :: kept up

i've not slept well in a few days. i'm not happy about this. last night i was up just angry about the situation in my lab. *sigh* i wish i'd gotten more advice on how to deal with it, but i didn't. *sigh* i'm going to have to tell this person to leave me alone, and i've got to do it with grace, but unfortunately i think she's going to perceive grace as weakness and simply keep the behavior up. i fear i'm going to have to out power her, and essientally step on her to get her to leave me alone. being gracefull is far more powerful, but often times its hard for people to see that. i did email my prof, who is the head of the lab, and told him i wanted to chat with him about this matter during the meeting we are supposed to have tommorrow afternoon about my research project. maybe he can offer some advice. or what i'd really like is for him to tell this person just to leave me the hell alone.

i have class at 10.30 today. the professor who is teaching it said that he's glad that i, and another collegue, are in the department, and we're taking the class. i'm glad he's happy we're here, thats a nice feeling to have, i just hope i can meet his, and mainly, my expectations.

posted by brooke at August 30, 2006 07:36 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.