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Thursday, 17 August 06 :: *sigh*

i hope i never ever get it. and the fact that i have to deal with it, makes me very sad.

living in eugene is a nice thing. but its a utopia. and when you leave that utopia and carry givens with you that simply aren't givens any other place, you get smacked. smacked at times when you didn't even realize it was coming.

yep. i know what its like to be controversial and when i stand up to be controversial i have my armor on. and then there are times when thats not my intention and the armor isn't on. it hurts when that happens.

i guess the new given is - wear the armor all the time. i'm no longer living in my utopia. i'm back in the real world. and while i may appear to be tough, or something like that, i'm actually incredibly tender on the inside. maybe a bit too.

posted by brooke at August 17, 2006 11:55 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.