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Saturday, 5 August 06 :: my mind's a movin'.

interesting. i got to talk to my friend p today about this project that i'm starting to work on here in utah. she's very excited about it, and the potentials of it. we talked about a lot of stuff, including somehow connecting it to the work she's currently doing with a study group (i'd already emailed the woman who's leading the group and mentioned that), and even once it gets up online, taking it to her work place. it was great to hear her reaction to it 'this kind of stuff online FOR FREE.' yeah my friend, thats what its all about. thats why i came here to do this work.

i feel fortunate to have my friends back home (in eugene). i know them because of the work we all do, so as i'm thinking about this project, when i think about contacting people in oregon, its not just calling strangers, or calling friends who don't know much, its me calling my friends who know this stuff, and who are potential end users. i love that. i feel so lost here in utah, not sure how all this works, hoping that i do this right (even though i was told its okay to make mistakes). its comforting to get on the phone or dash off an email to someone and know that i don't have to worry about getting my foot in the door with them, because its already there. thats a nice thing.

okay. i'll stop babbling. i've been watching the buffy musical over and over, because i love the songs.. time to go on to the next episode.

posted by brooke at August 5, 2006 08:49 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.

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