She wondered what would happen if she began using her newly acquired slang on the street, outside of the controlled chaos environment of the school. If she appropriated bites of strangers’ food and explained she was simply collecting a fanum tax, or if she told the handsome, unsmiling barista she saw every morning that she was earning a degree in Advanced Rizzenomics, would her friends and neighbors laugh, or would they think she was having a psychotic break?

