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Tuesday, 24 July 07 :: news around the valley..

really, there's not much. it's pioneer day here in utah. honestly, i'm not sure what it's about, except for the fact that it's a day off, and i don't have class. maybe next year i'll make more of an effort to get it.

also, we had our first fire here in cache valley. i saw a plane dropping fire retardent on it yesterday, and this morning i could still smell the smoke. not too exciting, but being that this is the ever so quiet cache valley, enough to stir up a bit of excitement.

tomorrow is back to the regular work day. i have a lot of it to do. maybe i'll study later today, but right now i'm a bit tired from hiking a good portion of the spring hollow trail early this morning, before the heat set in (though, right now it is only 88, rather than the 98 we've been dealing with). it was a tough walk up, as it was practically straight up hill, but beautiful. so nice that a trail like this lies just 10 minutes out of town. even nicer is that there are trails like this all over the area, just minutes from logan. for all the complaining i do, when i get out of logan, into the canyon, i'm always grateful that i ended up in a place where i can escape phd land so easily. thanks friend s, so glad we finally hooked up for hiking. and thanks to friend w for giving advice about the trail. w & h - maybe naomi sometime?

posted by brooke at July 24, 2007 02:01 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.