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Tuesday, 24 July 07 :: confession.

i've not read any of the harry p*tter books, but, as of sunday, i have now seen all of the movies. i saw the first one when it was in the theatres, the most recent the day it came out, and the rest over the last week and a half. and i have to admit.. my two favourite characters? sn@pe and valdem*rt. yes, i enjoy dumbeld*re, the fellow himself, and all his buddies, but they are very sweet characters in the tradition of all the sweet characters from before. but sn@pe and valdem*rt, they are just as dark as dark can be. yes, i am a pacifist, yes i like the bright side of things, but, i can appreciate the darkness in those two characters. i guess it's that dark side of myself that's attracted to the characters. we all have a dark side, and it seems that mine is attracted to those two particular characters.

i'm headed to lost valley soon. i'm going to assist with the second level of heart of now. i'm looking forward to it, as i've never assisted with this course before and, no matter how much i love heart of now, i was getting a tad bored with it. it's not that i'll never go back to heart of now, i just crave the challenge of this course.

i attended the course 2 years ago this november. it was such a powerful experience that a lot of it is still etched in my mind. the people i connected with are still important to me to this day. in that heart of now has been a life changing experience over a period of time, this was a life changing experience in just a few days. it's hard to believe that it is going on 2 years ago, really.

i can't wait. i can't wait for this new challenge in this part of my life that isn't attended to as much now that i'm in utah, but is as important, maybe even more important, as it was when i was there every month. it's the constant overcoming of challenges that are presented to me that i'm discovering is probably the first lesson here. and so it is that strength, surrounded by people i simply adore, that i'm looking forward to tapping into as i strive to do my best in this upcoming course, that i strive to offer the students. tapping into that strength, surrounded by this community of people that means more to me as each day passes.

posted by brooke at July 24, 2007 09:06 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.