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Saturday, 25 November 06 :: its an existential moment.

i'm sitting here innocently and all.. sitting at my friend jon's desk (cause he's in the big room, with the WINDOW, and cause he's just a nice guy to let me use his computer when he's not here), taking a bit of a break from coding articles, reading an article on some around the world sailing race -- thinking about my grandfather and growing up around his boats (yep, my dear aunt, you know those thoughts ) -- and i'm struck with this huge thought.

how in the world did i end up in logan utah coding articles about personalization, and localization? seriously.

oh yeah. i needed a new start. and the logan, utah thing? a) i applied to only 3 schools, only 2 of which i got into and b) i have this masochistic need to save the world, and i discovered that there were a whole bunch of people here with the same need. *roll eyes*

one of these days i tell ya, i'm going to come around and realize the pleasure in not giving a rats ass about the rest of the world, quit this phd thing and head into corporate america.

*sigh*

back to coding. i must, i must.. code until i finish.

blah.

posted by brooke at November 25, 2006 06:22 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.