Metrics final is done. The secretaries, A, and I had to reschedule the dang thing five times before we found a classroom thanks to scheduling confusion and unannounced seminars. I feel pretty good about it otherwise.
Showed Ardilla "Run Lola, Run" the other day, and found yet another nugget of life advice in that movie. A very German nugget though. Really the whole moral of "Run Lola, Run" is "BE ON TIME."
Lola wasn't on time to pick up her loser, dealer boyfriend, and he lost the money, and therefore will soon be killed unless he gets the money by a certain time (20 minutes or something like that). Lola then spends two rather unsuccessful attempts at getting this money, with the scenario usually ending in one of them dying. But at the third "alternative" ending, everything turns out great. Is it something Lola does? Not really. In fact Manni finds the bum who found the money on the train, gets it back, and the money that Lola does manage to get from the casino is really not helpful at all. But what happened that caused everything to change?
By getting hit by Herr Meyer's car, and keeping him from getting into a car crash (before he goes to pick up her father), she sets into motion all sorts of events that lead to a peaceful and happy ending (as opposed to her getting shot, or Manni getting crushed by an ambulance). So really the whole thing was made alright by the fact that Meyer showed up ON TIME. In fact, Lola could have avoided the whole situation if she'd somehow shown up on time (granted her moped was stolen... a heart breaking turn of events). So the punctuality of others actually saved their lives. How... uhm... interesting.
So the whole moral of "Run Lola, Run" is to be punctual. How very German. No wonder the movie never caught on in Spain. "Has to be there by 12 or Manni dies huh? What about 12ish? Can I get some tapas on the way?"
So unless you want to turn into a kool-aid-hair-dyed-German-pop-singer-actress running through the streets of Berlin, be sure to be on time.
This is to say nothing in reference to the song "Lola", which we all know is... well... an interesting song to say the least.
Micro final on Monday, Macro final on Wednesday.
Qualifiers in about two weeks.
3 comments:
Franka, a pop singer? You sure about that?
THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST [although I think that the lesson is just against stupidity. Don’t get a stupid boyfriend; don’t be stupid enough to make it easier for someone to steal your moped by leaving it unlocked/unchained or on while you run a quick errand; don’t ask a parent who hasn’t really been a parent (emotional or biological) for large amounts of money; don’t rely on God to give you a luck rush at the casino to save your butt... OH!! and, please, please don’t leave a bag with 100,000 marks (?) on the seat of a metro/subway train! So, a very Mexican nugget of life advice would go something like “If you are going to be late, be intelligently ..or fashionably, both work… late.” Yeah.. we tend to be late, but we're a gorgeous race. her pants were WAY too high, even for a running beauty.] MOVIE!!
did the Roomba Mom go undercover? :( ?
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