Erg. Am home sick, with the kind of cramps from the deepest levels of hell that lead to actual pukage from the pain. Bleh. And erg.

If I follow the rules, I feel like other people should have to also. I have a friend who lives on a very narrow street where there is no parking. Her roommates insist on parking on the street because they get tickets rarely enough that they feel like it is worth it not to walk a block away to park. Of course one of them drives a very large truck and partially blocks the end of the driveway across the street. Now people on the street are trying to get them towed and for some reason they don't think this is fair. But if everyone did it instead of two people, you would not be able to get a car down the street.

I guess I see the grade thing as being the same situation because it only works if a few people don't follow the rules. If everyone asked for new grades, I suppose it would just lead to permenant grade inflation.

Pedantry.

Merci. I did look this up, and dictionary dot com told me it was "pedanticalness." Now I want to go get pedantic on their ass.

The why: Our high-tech conference room reservation system is a calendar taped to the conf. room door. Apparently someone said they hadn't reserved it because they didn't have a pen with them. So the secretary taped a pencil to the door, and put a yellow sticky reading PENCIL --> next to it.

That kicked off a flurry of sticky notes on the door, including "HINGE -->," "HANDLE -->," and "CARPET."

Then someone put a sticky pointing to those that reads "IRONY."

So I crossed that out and wrote "SARCASM." My colleague plans to add a "PEDANTRY" pointer to my note. "BUFFISTA" would obviously work just as well, but not make sense to anyone else.

pedanticalness

Pedatification.

Ha, you rules followers! I mock you and your faith in being enfranchised in an equitable system.

I had a college friend who got very very irate with me any time I got an extension on a paper.

She extrapolated that grades were competitive and translated into job opportunities. Which I don't think is true - we both graduated from Kenyon with a B.A. and that's all anybody would really look at. But I didn't care - I was only interested in writing the best paper and sometimes that took more time.

Pedatification.

Pedanticalosity.

Pedantasticness.

Pedantasticness.

That's pedantastic!

Pedantiliciousness.

Pendantrocity.