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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.

"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.

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thanks susan for that one.

and this. it got posted almost 2 months ago, but its important.
Cancer Patience by my good friend Preston.

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.

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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 March 10, 2007 04:08 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.