I have successfully returned to college

[osprey_archer]

I’ve been undergoing tutor training all week. You would think there’d be a limit to the different ways you could say “Don’t tell your tutee that her paper is a vile affront to the English language and she ought forthwith to communicate entirely in interpretive dance,” but you would be wrong. I’ve heard five hundred versions this week and, assuming the repetition doesn't kill me, I'll hear five hundred more before the end of training.

Personally I think interpretive dance would enliven Freshman Studies classes, but I guess it would be hard to grade.

In other news, I had my first Russian class today, and have become acquainted with Cyrillic, both in printed and cursive form. Cursive Cyrillic is clearly the result of eons of incestuous inbreeding between letters, because they all look the same. Three letters are variations on m.

Unfortunately I’m already hooked, so despite the fact that I’m probably going to be eaten by the Cyrillic Monster I can only move forward. At least I’m not learning Chinese characters.