Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
my sister Kristin finally started a blog, yay!

After eating Ben and Jerry's and then swinging too much - I am lazy and distracted by the 1973 hit, "Kentucky Fried Movie." Awaiting Real World and the Osbornes.

I am in a prisonner's dilemma with Pete Nestor. This is sometimes seen as the underlying principle behind international relations. Basically, two people are suspected of stealing and locked in separate cells. If they both claim to be innocent, they will both walk free. If either one blames the other, he will go free and his friend will be in jail for 10 yrs. If they both blame each other, they will each be in jail for 1 yr. It's basically a question of trusting another person while at the same time trying to maximize your gains and not serving any jail time.

Pete and I were both granted extenstions for our Chinese Cinema papers because of our theses. Well, our professor never made it clear when our papers were due, so we've decided that as long as we turn it in on the same day, we're set. So we've both been lazy up until this point. But we've over come the prisionner's dilemma by communicating with one another - ah ha! strike one up for midd poli sci! it's the only way to get the upperhand and both ensure that the other will stay out of jail...

now... the question will really become problematic when one of us finishes. Will s/he turn the paper in and screw the other? Run through the scenarios, it's fascinating, much more fascinating than writing the paper itself - something I've been neglecting for sometime now.
posted by lmjasinski at 8:10 PM