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Wednesday, 23 August 06 :: today is a better day.

yeah. dig-it. today is a much better day. i've spent a lot of time over the last 2 days just talking to people. i mean, 'this is what i want for next year, but how the heck to i get there?' people around here are good people and they all assure me that i'm asking the right questions. i tend to be one to start sprinting down a certain path, and i know that if i sprint to far i'm likely to fall right off the path, or not notice the sign that says 'turn here.' so, luckily i know that, and i have no interest in loosing anytime because i've missed a turn off, or failed to notice that the path is no longer under me. i may seem neurotic, but i'm bound and determined to get what i want. i just hope that my own laughing and giggling will help smooth my way. yes, i laugh and giggle and throw out sarcastic zingers on a pretty regular basis.. and today, today i noticed myself skipping through the halls of the second floor of the education building. i might seem whacky, but i'd rather be whacky and maybe seem a bit off, than sad and actually be off.

i'm looking forward to my meeting with bbpd* on friday. i'm learning a lot about how he works. some of it bothers me, and some of it thrills me. i think it'll be a matter of finding that balance, knowing he's not perfect, and also knowing that he's not as bad as i may think when i get frustrated, all the while keeping in mind that he's the guy i'm here to study with, he's the guy in the department with my interests. it'll be good to chat with him face to face, and i hope that, while he'll be surprised with how i've changed what i'm doing, he'll be happy.

anyhow. its now 10 hours into this crap of the BEEP BEEP BEEP, and i fear it'll never end. and i MUST go read lessig. maybe after this episode of 'chef!' hahahaha. yeah, the beeping, i'm moving past annoyed and heading quickly into pretty damn pissed.

*sigh*

*big bad professor dude, aka ygpd (young geeky professor dude).

posted by brooke at August 23, 2006 04:54 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.