i must be in a parallel reality of books and assignments... lost in the papers... monday was at harvard department of anthropology meeting professor herzfeld, wednesday films at brown 224 - "un chien andalou" and "the couple in the cage", friday - two-hour long interview with one of the lost boys of sudan... incredible story. a miracle of life. and saturday meeting ksenia, hanan, diego and roberto, the other chilean studying physics, who arrived from new jersey for a weekend... crepes with nutella like during the good old italian days... tea and some more tea... one panetone (incredibly italian, i remember on christmas the supermarkets are filled with these huge sweet "things". i bought one for my neighbor upstairs who saved me by opening my shut door on christmas' eve... mmm... memories)... anyway... i finished my first two papers. first one on the origins of inequality in aristotle, hobbes, rousseau and marx. and another - the museum as the playground of knowledge and power, which was on the "balance and power: performance and surveillance in video art", "the body worlds" exhibition and the armenian museum... of course, foucault, gramsci, lacan and bennett. we'll see... now it all depends on the grades... as i have NO IDEA what my professors are expecting. but i did what i could. although not too much...