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For the past couple of nights, I've been staying up until 7 in the morning to bang out a rough draft of a research proposal/paper for someone to peer evaluate it, and then turn that in on noon of the 16th.
Its about how the history of psychiatry and psychological are based on racism and colonial thought in order to evaluate what constitutes the rational mind, and how perceptions of the Other persists even now to unfairly judge and misdiagnosis black folks and minority ethnic communities (BME makes a lovely acronym, thank you Indo-British psychiatrist for introducing that term to me in your collection of essays).
....and then I got a 5 page paper to turn in about how Sherlock Holmes books are one of the first to utilize racial profiling in fiction, and is representative of how English science categorizes people based on pseudo biology and anthropology. (but Sherlock Holmes is....so short to read, i love it. The only college reading I've finished completely in the whole quarter).
In happier news, my dad surprised me by asking if I want an impromptu trip to Hong Kong this weekend to visit my grandparents for grandpa's birthday (I think............82 years old). It's so sudden, because my grandpa just wanted to collect the whole Leung clan and have a party with him, and my dad is very into family enough to go along with that plan. I'm actually the only one who'd be accompanying him on the plane ride; two folks remember the horrors of plane travel, and my dear lil' brother who has to suffer through college applications cannot. (that sucker better finish the Common App. Harvard, ho!) [Despite him wanting to go to UC Berkeley and possibly shack up with me as I wander through the Bay area confused and uncertain like a lot of other 20-something year olds]
So I might have made a list of what food I want to eat in Hong Kong while taking a break from re-reading my source texts.
Its about how the history of psychiatry and psychological are based on racism and colonial thought in order to evaluate what constitutes the rational mind, and how perceptions of the Other persists even now to unfairly judge and misdiagnosis black folks and minority ethnic communities (BME makes a lovely acronym, thank you Indo-British psychiatrist for introducing that term to me in your collection of essays).
....and then I got a 5 page paper to turn in about how Sherlock Holmes books are one of the first to utilize racial profiling in fiction, and is representative of how English science categorizes people based on pseudo biology and anthropology. (but Sherlock Holmes is....so short to read, i love it. The only college reading I've finished completely in the whole quarter).
In happier news, my dad surprised me by asking if I want an impromptu trip to Hong Kong this weekend to visit my grandparents for grandpa's birthday (I think............82 years old). It's so sudden, because my grandpa just wanted to collect the whole Leung clan and have a party with him, and my dad is very into family enough to go along with that plan. I'm actually the only one who'd be accompanying him on the plane ride; two folks remember the horrors of plane travel, and my dear lil' brother who has to suffer through college applications cannot. (that sucker better finish the Common App. Harvard, ho!) [Despite him wanting to go to UC Berkeley and possibly shack up with me as I wander through the Bay area confused and uncertain like a lot of other 20-something year olds]
So I might have made a list of what food I want to eat in Hong Kong while taking a break from re-reading my source texts.
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