yay brute

the happiest part of my weekend was seeing that brute made it to semis =)

other weekend highlights:
mm.. nothing really. studying for my test. and i found a track nearby school.

i watched cinema paradiso last night. it's a good romantic movie. sappy. i cried a lot. and was dehydrated today. the theme (music) to the movie was calming and beautiful and added so much more.

i like finishing a test and being free for the rest of the day. it's a big relief. like the post-peeing feeling after holding it forever. the post-test relief made all the activities afterwards so much better. climbing was better, (i think i'm finally feeling more comfortable on the wall again) and talking to my parents was better, shopping was better, movie picking was better. food tasted better. but i guess it depends on how the test goes. it went ok. the first slide of our histo test was of boulder co. i would have gotten it wrong if it counted. the question should have been: locate laura's house.

i've been exploring more about medicine lately. in the past, i've always focused on the research, forefront of technology aspect of it. that was one reason for working in the biomaterials lab last year. i had the opportunity to see research pushing the field forward. and i think it would be fun to be a part of developing new prosthetics or techniques (as long as i'm not the tech). but there are other aspects that i really haven't seen too much of. earlier last week, i attended a lecture given by an orthopedic surgeon about his work in international medicine. he mainly worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which deals with war time situations. they are a group that doesn't ask questions, doesn't publicize things, only treat the injured. the strict policies allow them to be accepted among most groups. so they go around treating soldiers (from both sides of battle), prisoner's of war, etc. it is surprising and admirable the precarious balance that these volunteers are riding upon for their safety. unfortunately, it is expensive for him to go out on these missions, and there really isn't a "good" time for it. there are always obligations at home and the career at home to think about, but i think it's probably worth it. at least, he thinks so. there are a bunch of other international organizations that work with natural disasters that seem interesting as well.

the politics among medicine is crazy too. i read about how libya claims that some bulgarian nurses/doctors who worked in a libyan clinic for a period of time were innoculating children with HIV. so they imprisoned those health care workers and are sending the HIV positive kids to european countries for care. people are trying to get libya to free the doctors and nurses and help the kids out too. seems like a tricky situation to be in.

even in our home country, things are a mess.

but yea, so many possibilities.