Tao of Alba

TAO OF ALBA

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:42 PM

I AM BACK IN SCHOOL

I'm exhausted.

I walked from one college to another looking for a thesis that does not really exist. I feel like I want to inflict pain on the professor who gave the assignment, now I really do not know if the goddamned literary art form ever existed.

Or maybe the thesis is really just hiding from me. Somehow, being stuck in the shelves and shelves of so many bound books, it gained life and developed an attitude.

When I was in Freshman year, we discussed Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. We were given a chapter in the Iliad to transform into a musical, I actually played Helen of Troy. (Honestly, the standard of beauty has certainly gone down the drain).

Now that I'm a Grad student, taking up some undergrad subjects as pre-requisites to my Masters, I played Lysistrata in this morning's reading.

Who would have figured that I would traverse from a beauteous and meek damsel in distress to a charismatic feminist? From a babe trophy to the instigator of abstinence? My, my, my… How fittingly it describes my journey from the ultra-conservative university to the radical!

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