Undergrads

There seems to be a vast gulf between me and the undergrads. Maybe it's the fact that I am 10 years old than them, or that I am a couple stages apart from them in life. Or because I have better taste in "art".

(Why is my iTunes obsessed with Poe right now?)

Now that my apartment is looking like a livable space rather than a dumping facility, I have started to think decorative thoughts. I have my Kandinsky print and mirror from Argentina. Of late, I have become really enamored of the 1933 World's Fair prints. And there is always Art Nouveau ads. Or Chicago skyline images when I am feeling homesick/uppity. But all of the posters available in town are so generic. Lots of beaches, bands, beer and boobies. I don't want this shit on my walls. (I had to stop myself from telling some boys that their choice of sex-joke posters would just about guarantee no girl would ever set foot in their room. And if they did, it would be followed shortly by a quick exit.) The closest thing to art I could find was "Starry Starry Night" and "The Kiss", which while cool, are freakin' everywhere.

Undergrad uniform appears to be OU paraphenalia and flipflops (I saw one girl kitted head to toe in OU, literally). Which makes it easy to dress down. I guess I am not used to that kind of school spirit.

Also, in the age of cell phones, you can't find a landline anywhere! This is new to me, since I didn't get a cell phone until after I had been out of school for a while. And because there were always landlines on info desks or around.

This year, I will be a teaching associate for an undergraduate theater class, which is pretty exciting. And intimidating. And with this quarter's focus on the classics, I am being forced to draw on my undergrad classes, which seem pretty hazy right about now.

I seem to confuse alot of people. One professor with whom I worked in Chicago did not understand that I was a first year grad. And two of my students mistook me for a freshman. Ouch! I hope I don't have that dazed-n-confused look!

The only consolation is that my advisor has to wear a jacket in order to not be mistaken for a student!

on iTunes: "Little Green Bag" - BNL & Tom Jones