Random, Largely Pointless Update

So, looking at my shiny new calender I can see that I've actually got no pre-planned Mentor stuff 'till Thursday, when I'll be training to use Blogger. Sort of like I'm doing now, admittedly, but possibly with an end result of more shebang. But in the interests of not letting this thing get stale, I shall now produce a Random, Largely Pointless Update.

This is Random. You may need to read more bad 90's X-Men.

So, what vaguely on-topic Mentor shizzle could I possible have to write about? Well, it's struck me over the last few weeks that I've already been using the last load of training we had quite a bit. I'm sure lots of us have had moments where we've thought "that bastard is totally an 'A' person", but I've used the more in-depth stuff too. Despite none of it actually relating to actual, proper Mentor work.

I've managed to help diffuse a rapidly escalating situation between campus security and a band they were trying to throw out. I broke up a fight outside the Meze. All of which were points where I've stopped and thought back to the old training, and gone "ah-ha!"

Well, more or less. I may have been drunk on both occasions. But mostly I've just been talking to bloody hundreds of new people. Between actually having to talk to new people at the training and the training itself, I suddenly seem able to grasp the concepts behind dynamic social mechanisms, without really understanding how. Which, when you think about it, is a very shiny thing.

Hopefully I get in on the mental health training soon, because the downside to all this is the rapid realisation that everyone else on this planet is almost as batshit, window-licking crazy as I am.