[FairfieldLife] RE: Krapp's Last Tape

[emilymaenot]

The scary part was that it made perfect sense to me. :)  I left for the Y to go 
for a swim, and was sitting in the hot tub trying to convince myself that I 
really *wanted* to get in the 20 degree cooler pool and do laps, and I 
inadvertently laughed out loud, this time imagining Bill Murray delivering that 
line (sorry Bob).  A guy who was also in the hot tub looked at me and said "is 
this a private joke?"  I thought, "hmmmm....should I try and explain this idea 
of "paranoid optimism"..and that "Murphy was an optimist, did you know?"  So, I 
told him that "I was aspiring to be a paranoid optimist" (I've got the paranoid 
part down) and he laughed and said he was a "pragmatic idealist", which I also 
liked.