O...just found this and absolutely love it!

"Her exasperated dislike for students who wrote term papers about Elizabethan drama based on summaries,"

I kind of love the idea that Irina really was grading all those papers and getting genuinely indignant over cheating students. Like Riley stressing over his fake-TA duties. There are definitely days I'd like to send Irina in to deal with my students -

Wonderful Emily voice; there's so much more to her than meets the eye.

Emily really is in a unique position. Everybody close to her lives a double life: Arvin, Sydney, Jack, Irina.

The end of this story is very haunting.