lazy, injury, drama, the food

And... we're back. Spring break is over, back for the final push at the college. Catching up with the tutees I've had sessions with so far has been interesting:

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Me: How was your spring break?

Tutee1: Great, except I got lazy and forgot EVERYTHING!

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Me: What happened? <said to a concurrently enrolled high school student, gimping in with a medical boot on one foot>

Tutee2: I hurt my foot skydiving

Me: REALLY?

Tutee2: Actually, I stepped weird off of a curb, but isn't that technically skydiving?

Later, he told me he had to usher a choir concert that evening. I asked if he could be excused because of the foot injury.

"Nah, I'll still do it. I get extra credit for volunteering, plus there'll be a girl there I want to ask to prom"

Priorities.

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Me: How was your spring break?

Tutee3: (looking pensive) Well, I went home (out of state), and everything kinda blew up. It wasn't so good

She looked on the brink of tears, which I hoped would not come (they didn't) - that's not my realm of expertise. 

Before the break, she'd told me that she'd recently changed her major from a STEM subject to Creative Writing. I wonder if that was the cause of the spring break family tumult, but she didn't elaborate, and I didn't ask.

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Then I overheard this spring break revelation from a side conversation:

 Student1: I've realized my liking for fish

Work Study: The animal or the band?

<pause>

Student1: The food.

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Spring break, in the books.