Please disregard any and all of the grammatical and spelling errors in the following MSN conversation as I was currently in the middle of class while it had occurred and therefore a tad bit distracted.
18/10/2010
6:24:31 PM Not Me
>>baggage is on soon
6:25:09 PM Me
>>are you excited for it?
6:25:25 PM Not Me
>>very
6:25:25 PM Not Me
>>then at 730
6:25:38 PM Not Me
>>occupation double!
6:27:36 PM Me
>>occupation double?
6:28:03 PM Not Me
>>yeah
6:28:05 PM Not Me
>>its a french tv show i watch
6:28:19 PM Not Me
>>its a reality show
6:28:19 PM Not Me
>>one of my strippers is on it
6:28:39 PM Me
>>you have strippers?
6:29:31 PM Not Me
>>from my thesis
6:30:04 PM Me
>>I don't know what your thesis was about
6:30:35 PM Not Me
>>male strippers
6:30:55 PM Not Me
>>i never told you about my master's thesis?
6:30:55 PM Not Me
>>did i not talk to you for those 2 years?
6:31:45 PM Me
>>if you did it probably only consisted of questioning me about when I was going to come visit you.
6:31:57 PM Not Me
>>oh
6:32:07 PM Not Me
>>well
6:32:07 PM Not Me
>>i wrote my thesis on male strippers
6:32:26 PM Not Me
>>30 hours of observing male strippers, and 8 interviews with male strippers
6:32:55 PM Not Me
>>it involved a lot of penis
6:33:25 PM Me
>>and what was your thesis statement?
6:34:43 PM Not Me
>>my thesis was exploratory in nature...
6:35:16 PM Me
>>ok
6:35:36 PM Not Me
>>that means i didn't have a thesis statement
6:35:52 PM Me
>>I got that
6:36:08 PM Not Me
>>This study is an exploratory research guided by three very broad and open questions: 1. What are the labour processes and practices including interaction) in a heterosexual male erotic dance establishment? 2. How do workers experience, negotiate and manage the work, work site and identity? 3. How is gender implicated in the aforementioned processes and practices?
6:36:52 PM Not Me
>>This memoir uses two theories that have their genesis in symbolic interactionism; ‘doing gender’ and ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in order to explore gender roles and intimate behaviour in a heterosexual male erotic dance establishment in Eastern Canada. Using participant observation and semi-structured interviews with eight male erotic dancers I explore the labour process, construction of intimacy
6:37:12 PM Not Me
>>and the way dancers ‘do’ gender within the establishment in addition to examining the dancers’ experience with stigmatization.
6:37:12 PM Not Me
>>there
6:37:12 PM Not Me
>>thats from my abstract
6:37:22 PM Me
>>alright, cool
6:37:44 PM Not Me
>>meh
6:37:57 PM Not Me
>>i basically justified my funding money into going to pay for me and my friends to drink alcohol and pay men to take their clothes off for me
6:38:24 PM Me
>>nicely done
6:38:46 PM Not Me
>>it was good times
6:38:59 PM Not Me
>>anyways
6:39:01 PM Me
>>I'm sure it was
6:39:02 PM Not Me
>>one of the strippers is on a quebec reality show
6:39:07 PM Me
>>cool
6:39:17 PM Not Me
>>so i watch that
6:39:19 PM Me
>>did you hook up with any of them?
6:39:55 PM Not Me
>>i did no such thing
6:40:11 PM Not Me
>>that would have been a conflict of interest
6:40:35 PM Me
>>doesnt mean you had to cover your hook up in your thesis
6:40:47 PM Not Me
>>it still would have been a conflict of interest
6:41:13 PM Not Me
>>that'd be like if i hooked up with a criminal in our system
6:42:24 PM Me
>>haha so that doesn't mean you couldn't have done it
6:42:39 PM Not Me
>>yes it does
6:42:39 PM Not Me
>>it'd be a conflict of interest
6:44:08 PM Me
>>it might be a conflict of interest but for people who don't hold themselves morally accountable they could do such a thing regardless of whether there's a conflict or not
6:45:20 PM Not Me
>>it would have risked my thesis and consequently my degree and career
6:45:20 PM Not Me
>>not to mention my dignity
6:47:37 PM Me
>>if you got caught
6:47:37 PM Not Me
>>and my integrity as an academic/professional
6:48:23 PM Not Me
>>right but if i did things just because i didn't think i'd get caught then i would have killed you long ago
6:49:18 PM Me
>>well yes I realize that which would have been fine with me
6:49:41 PM Not Me
>>but then you'd be dead
6:50:42 PM Me
>>yes well if you don't remember I was quite emo at one point and death wouldn't have bothered me besides the fact that when you're dead you're dead and couldn't be bothered by it anyway
6:51:30 PM Not Me
>>well that depends on what happens after death
6:52:41 PM Me
>>yeah but there's no point in speculating what may or may not happen after a person dies because there's no way to be absolutely sure.
6:53:35 PM Not Me
>>right - and under that premise, you can't know that you wont be bothered by it when you're dead, because its just as possible that you can be
6:54:55 PM Me
>>Except considering the fact that I was hoping for death to come day after day while I was alive so having it come would have been what I wanted and if it is something that you want then why would it bother you after you get it?
6:56:46 PM Not Me
>>because if you don't know what death holds, then there's no way to know whether its something thats better or worse than what you were currently living...so its certainly feasible that you could find yourself in s situation that was worse than the one you were living thereby causing you to regret your decision/want for it
6:59:26 PM Me
>>there's no point in regretting something because it has already happened and therefore nothing you can do about it now, you just have to move farward regardless of the consequences of your previous actions
7:00:13 PM Me
>>*forward
7:02:34 PM Not Me
>>well then perhaps regret was the wrong word - you may not choose to regret it, but you will certainly be bothered by it
7:03:40 PM Not Me
>>if you're living constantly engulfed in flames, or being sodomized repeatedly by gigantic mules, you're certainly going to be bothered by death
7:06:12 PM Me
>>if I'm living in hell then technically I'm not dead I'm living in a new state of existance so I can't be bothered by death if I'm still alive in some sense
7:07:30 PM Not Me
>>yes you can, you're dead from life as we know it, whether or not you continue to exist in some alternate form of existence is inconsequential
7:10:58 PM Me
>>if I continue to exist in some alternate form then the current conception of death is wrong and therefore null.
7:12:37 PM Not Me
>>no its not, youre dead - you no longer exist in our world...whether or not my grandparents who have passed away are in heaven, or are reincarnated, or who know what else, doesnt negate the fact that they are dead in so far as they cease to exist in the world that they lived in in the capacity we once knew them in
7:17:19 PM Me
>>The definition of death is the end of life, not the end of existence in the world that they lived. To you they may be considered dead but that is all about perspective. If they are alive in some manner or another then to them or their spirits or whatever their new existence consists of then to themselves they are alive
7:21:28 PM Not Me
>>well, no, if you really want to get technical, death is defined as the cessation of the vital functions of the body, so whether or not a spirit continues to live is inconsequential....but death in the connotative sense, is the cessation of life as we know it
7:24:47 PM Me
>>Only because we don't know what happens after we physically die but once we physically die then the definition of death will change with our current state of being. If we are alive in some form then the individual will not see themselves as being dead but in an altered stated of existence
7:26:27 PM Not Me
>>but as you stated, its impossible for us to know
7:31:16 PM Me
>>exactly which makes everything we just said pointless to even mention. as far as we are concerned right now when we die we are dead there is no existence after and as far as that goes if you were to kill me I won't be bothered by it without going into any speculations about whether there is an afterlife or not.
7:31:54 PM Not Me
>>occupation double is on i can't argue anymore
7:33:00 PM Me
>>enjoy your show
7:49:45 PM Not Me
>>ahmagawd
7:49:45 PM Not Me
>>who are they gonna eliminate?!
7:52:02 PM Me
>>I do not know
7:55:30 PM Not Me
>>they cut kylia
7:59:34 PM Not Me
>>last night they cut alex
7:59:46 PM Not Me
>>so now its down to 4 guys and 6 girls
8:00:01 PM Not Me
>>i imagine theyre going to even out the numbers soon
8:00:13 PM Not Me
>>since its a couple who wins
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