ranking time

I think that my grades come out soon. I'm not sure of the exact date, but it's somewhere around now. I checked this morning and they weren't there.

Grades are the most annoying aspect of law school. They take a perfectly alluring intellectual experience and tabulate and twist it into a single letter. Furthermore, because the legal world is rank-obsessed, I am forced to care about them.

I complained about this to our littlest tabby.

"I've learned so much more than what they tested me on!" I grumped.

Littlest Tabby, who is the sweetest of all of our cats, jumped onto my lap, curled up, and pointedly purred. She knows her job description well.

"I could have written about retributive philosophy in Criminal Law. Or the origin of the fee simple absolute in Property." These were both subjects that I found interesting enough to read not only the required reading, but the pages in the book that weren't assigned reading.

"Purr." Littlest Tabby was not impressed by my whine.

I will check again before I leave on Thursday. If the news is bad, at least I can recover on an isolated Nicaraguan beach before classes start up again.