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Tuesday, 27 March 07
yes, snow is on the way
just yesterday it was 66 degrees, tommorrow it will be 35. welcome to utah.
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Saturday, 24 March 07
spring has arrived.
i'm in the library right now, but not after spending 2 hours walking along the logan river, up the logan canyon, with my dear friend V, her dear friend A, and V's 4 children, all 4 of whom I simply adore. It was an unexpected and very good way to start the day, because, you see, spring has arrived here in Cache Valley, UT. (At least for the moment). The mountains are turning green, the weather is warm enough for chaco's, the air is clear (mostly).
sometimes this place is hard for me. it is very hard for me. i wonder why i'm in utah. but then i get to take an unexpected walk in the canyon with a dear friend, while working on making a new friend, and spending time with young friends, surrounded by some of the most amazing beauty sights, and it becomes easier. yes, the hard is relieved.
spring is here. yeah!
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Monday, 19 March 07
on the 4th anniversary of the war.
Dreaming of a World
c. Tracy Chapman
I know I may be wishing
On a world
That may never be
But I’ll keep on wishing
No matter how hopeless
Or foolish
It may seem
I’ll keep on wishing
I’ll toss my coins in the fountain
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross my fingers and dream on
I know I may be dreaming
Of a world
Far from present day reality
But I’ll keep on dreaming
No matter how unrealistic
Or naive
It may seem always keep dreaming
And toss your coins in the fountain
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross your fingers and dream on
We must always be thinking
Of a world
As a place of infinite possibilities
And always keep thinking
No matter how hopeless
Or foolish
It may seem
Always keep thinking
And toss our coins in the fountain
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross our fingers and dream on
I’ll keep on wishing
We must always keep dreaming
Of a world
With equality and justice
Thinking
There could be a world
Without poverty and sickness
Wishing
Of a world
Without hunger and homelessness
Dreaming
Of a world
Where all people live in peace
Dreaming
Of a world
Dreaming
On a world
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Friday, 16 March 07
why?
why do plans to get a whole lot of work done always go awry? :P
*working hard to get the dehydrated SNOT out of my head.*
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Thursday, 15 March 07
the good, the bad, and the stuffy x2
lets cover the bad first. the bad is that the stuffy became really stuffy, and the weak, and the inability to breathe. a lot of work to do, and getting it done, but, unwillingly, because i'd rather be xonked out in bed with no obligations (like endless amounts of work) hanging over my head.
the stuffy, well.. i just covered that. my nose is all stopped up, and while it will run itermittently, i can't just blow all the snot out. i'd like to get one of those baby bugger suckers and stuff it up into my sinuses so i can get all the visciousy runny snot out of my head.
the good is that i'm exhausted today for another reason beyond the stuffy. a friend had interesting news at 11.20 last night. because it was interesting and because she was only up at school, i decided to drive up there and get it face to face, rather than over the phone. this is interesting news that may turn into good news for me. cross your fingers that it does. the other good is that i'm almost done with the article and that the study got dropped. joy, joy, joy.
:)
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Tuesday, 13 March 07
the good, the bad, and the stuffy.
the bad is that my study may need to be put off for a semester. i didn't get on it soon enough with IRB back in january and that has caused things to be put waay off. so, hopefully i'll know by the end of the day. but the good is that i know this happens to everyone, and i can still move forward with the next study as well. the good is that if this is the case, it will give me a chance to validate the pre-post instrument, which i've been wanting to do.
the other bad is that there's been an awful noise around my apartment for almost 2 hours and while i'm stuffy and wanting to hang at home, i think i may just head east to the university.
that was the stuffy.
the good is that i'm enjoying putting together this article. it feels like i'm putting together a puzzle. hopefully the stuffy won't get in my way of finishing the puzzle this week. it has to be done, and done well.
Posted by brooke at 10:23 AM
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Saturday, 10 March 07
news from around the blogsphere.
a couple of interesting bits i found just now as i was eating my < late > lunch.
Priests to purify site after Bush visit
GUATEMALA CITY - Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
The purification entails chanting and burning incense, herbs and candles.
(click the link for more)
thanks susan for that one.
and this. it got posted almost 2 months ago, but its important.
Cancer Patience by my good friend Preston.
Cancer Patience, or—accordingly, using the pun—Cancer Patients, is the title of a book I began writing while under the euphoric drizzle of chemotherapy some six years ago. It was clear to me then that I had not been properly educated nor prepared for the battle with time I would have, within and without, while undergoing cancer treatments. I wished someone had written a book on the specifics of how difficult it is to have to wait, and wait, and wait for everything, mostly because you hardly feel like doing anything else.
You have to wait for the barium solution to settle in your stomach before you can wait in line to get a CT Scan, which then is waiting for the scan to be over; you have to wait days from the time your blood is drawn after each chemo round to see how the markers are doing, and if the red blood count is too low, you have to wait until a drug raises your cell count before you can schedule and wait for the next chemotherapy appointment, which, again, is waiting for the dripping solution session to be over; and, you have to wait for the steroids to take effect, which shorten the wait for the anti-nausea medication to take effect, which helps in the wait for the chemo to run its course. Not to mention you had to wait until having recovered from the initial tumor-removal operation to have begun any of this waiting in the first place.
(click the link for more)
one quick comment: preston talks about lance armstrong. i'm a fan, and i've read his book, i read it after my dad got diagnosed. while i do admire him, i'll never forget my dad commenting to me, upon me bringing up the book with him, that non-celebreties would probably not have gotten into see specialists as quick as lance did when things turned south. i agree. lance fought uphill, and what he's doing with what has happened to him is wonderful, but what would his fight have been without his privilege? we need to remember that the fight can be even harder for the non-lance's out there.
Posted by brooke at 04:08 PM
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Friday, 9 March 07
it's spring break and i have..
- a 10 page article to write (it's 2/3 done, though now i have to read some articles for it, and just the 1st draft, i'll hand it over to other folks on friday)
- a conference presentation proposal to rewrite and submit
- observation notes to write up
- irb to change around and submit (by monday 8am)
- a study to start - re: giving pre tests, telling them where to go, etc..
- some finishing touches on the content treatment
- a paper for a class to write (its only 3 pages, i only care that i get a b on the paper, which is easy to do, and its about 1/2 way done)
- and wouldn't it be nice to get started on my 20 page research perspectus due on the 18th of april? its a big one and i'm worried about it.
- an illness to either stop or get over during the week.
i'll let you know how it goes..
:)
Posted by brooke at 06:41 PM
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Tuesday, 6 March 07
creepy movie.
okay, the ads for this movie are completely creeping me out. why? because my nom de plume is 'mary shaw,' the main character in the movie. everytime the ad says that in that creepy voice i get shivers down my back. i wish they'd stop that! or that i'd chosen a less common nom de plume.
Posted by brooke at 12:35 AM
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Sunday, 4 March 07
free food x funky street names.
i just realized that if i play my cards right tomorrow i'll get both breakfast and lunch for free. yeah, at first i didn't buy into this whole 'free food' thing, but since we've been having department head and professor candidates coming through (tommorrow will be our 7th), i've been enjoying the free lunches they've been treating us too. tommorrow i'm having breakfast with our last department head candidate, on campus in a place that serves food all day. through a friend i found out that once you pay to enter, if you don't leave you can just continue to eat. the same friend told me he sits and writes in there all day long. i think i'll do the same thing tommorrow, or at least try too if it seems kosher to stay as the others are getting up to leave.
i know, i know.. is this blog worthy? oh crap, i don't care.
btw, for those of you not familiar with utah addresses (auntie sdr) --> here's a good article about the coordinate system here. an address 235 North (or N) 200 West (or W) in Salt Lake City would be 2 blocks West and 2 blocks North of the Salt Lake Temple (Mormon). Even more specifically the address is between the 200 and 300 North block of the street 200 West. Here in Logan the 0,0 (Main, Center) is at the Tabernacle, not the Logan Temple. Oh and if you here someone refer 2nd W or 14th N -- they mean 200 West or 1400 North. So, really, the proper Utahan way to say 235 North 200 West would be 235 N 2nd W.
Posted by brooke at 09:09 PM
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