Grades

She wonders now that it is not part of the grade, if she will keep writing.

She has been working on grades all day.

Students that realize after ten weeks, twenty assignments, that they don't want to fail.

Her own obsessive compulsive high school nature to be the best and claw her way to the top is still writing her daily post.

Wondering why grades matter, why it matters if someone reads this, why it matters if she posts this...

Ratings on readers of blogs, or ratings on a singles' site picture, or how we measure up...

as if any of it really matters.