Ya! Si Dios Lo Quiere

and other such quotes from Cultural Psych:

A monkey dressed in silk, is still a monkey (Mexican Proverb)
The nail that sticks out get hammered down (Chinese)
The squeaky wheel gets the grease (European American)
If I hear mutual constitution of culture and psyche just one more time...I will scream (Christine)

Speaking of screaming...I didn't hear any primal screams on dead day/night. Did you? Then again, would you scream the midnight right before, or after? Both? Hm...that was an all-nighter for me too.

Unlike tonight! I am getting (some) shuteye, the good ol' 40 winks (er, or at least 20).

The cultural psych final is tomorrow afternoon and I've still got reading to catch up on, but otherwise things are looking all right. I do like psych classes. They're always interesting and because of it, the studies tend to stick in one's mine more than random junk like the RDA for Vitamin K (in mcg, I think. Can't remember the actual number, but I think there was one).

All the PHE papers are due tomorrow too, though. That includes the Observation Field Site visits, the big PHE intervention group report (ours looks good! go team!), the individual PHE intervention report (hello? slightly redundant?), the PHE journal (including a reflection on the PHE journal, which itself is a reflection on our personal change project...reflections on reflections? my PHE group agrees this is just silly), the paper for our "personal retreat" project...and hopefully that's all, because that's all I've done. Whew. A heck of a lot of busy work.

So tired...finals week is uber unhealthy for moi as well. No good!

Oh! Saturday went relatively well. We had the Breast Cancer survivor (Lam Luong) from the American Cancer Society come speak (in Vietnamese). Not a huge turnout (pretty worried for a while) but we did end up getting some patients to go, and they were all animated and engaged in talking. I have no idea what they were saying (as I don't speak Vietnamese at all), but it seemed like good conversation/communication to me. Quite a few of the people there were survivors, and they ended up sharing their experiences with one another. In any case, we've learned from this and have good ideas for future health talks. I'll post pics as soon as I get them up!

Otherwise, I'm looking forward to 6:30 pm tomorrow! FREE AT LAST!!!!! By which I mean free to start working on a massive amount of currently neglected lab work, free to start studying for MCATS (and the prep classes), free to get off my butt and start running/gymming regularly again, and free to start packing up my stuff to move to the other side of campus in about a week. Hm...well, I think I'll live in happy denial for a few hours after that final at least. Maybe take a nap, or perhaps go shopping. It's been a while.

P.S. Thanks for the comments, John and Jenny!