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Tuesday, 9 October 07 :: grumpy

i'm grumpy because i take things too personally. i'm grumpy because it feels like every difficult thing i have to overcome is just one more thing standing between me and this damn degree. i'm grumpy because there is so much to do, and so fucking difficult, and i'm just so blasted tired. i'm grumpy because being in utah is difficult. it is more difficult than people may imagine, especially people who are a part of the majority culture, especially people who simply do not know how different my home is from this place. i'm grump grump grumpy.

posted by brooke at October 9, 2007 10:38 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.