I was walking home from classes today when I spotted a couple of ducks eating the seeds that fell from the bird feeder hanging on the tree outside the door to the hall. I passed them by and they both quacked at me. It was kind of cute. There have been many stories and myths about pranks boys pull with ducks. I've heard that they put them in Gorman at night and they're still in the classrooms for the bright and bushy-tailed 8 o'clock classes to laugh at or (in many girls cases) scream at. I heard that the Madonna boys always, every year, put some ducks in Catherine with the cooperation of a few mutinous Catherine girls. I think that's happened already. I mean, I heard some friends of mine asking about it, but I think I slept through the event. Just like I slept though some boys singing up to a girl in their boxers. Man, my friends are wrong for not waking me up to see that. I wonder why those boys always torture those poor ducks. I mean, all they're doing is playing in the duck pond. It's their pond. I've just now realized, today in class, that I'm going to learn absolutely nothing about Omeros from Lit Trad. My teacher never says anything that has anything to do with the poem, or at least anything I think is important or interesting, and it's so frustrating. She goes on and on about the same things that don't have relevance to what's going on in the poem, and she doesn't seem to understand that we don't answer her questions because they don't have a point to what we want to know. Well, that and they're so stupidly obvious that she shouldn't even have the nerve to ask them of us. There aren't any Cliffs Notes for Omeros or any other type of guides other than the ones I already have, but they don't help with the underlying themes and allusions. I want to learn about the book like I learned about the Iliad or the Odyssey. I want to understand it from the inside out. I don't want to know about the background of the book unless it needs to be understood to understand the poem, but I want to know how the author ties in every single epic poem I've ever read into one character or a single action of that character. I didn't get anything out of the Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost, but there are SparkNotes for that. I can learn myself. But not with Omeros. I can't just say, "Hey, I wonder what this symbolizes," and look somewhere and find it. I'm learning more about Omeros from my friends than I am from the professor. I thought I was paying $25,000 a year to be thoroughly educated, not to get a discourse on the history of the Island of St. Lucia from my Lit Trad professor.