Greetings FS friends:

My TCLS associates and I have had a busy day.  My risk manager's brother-in-law arrived by plane last night.  I remember posting here that he was coming --- well, he's here!  He set up a meeting with Angeline this morning to discuss her D+ from his course back at my law school.

He presented here a graduated proposal, which I authorized.  Here it is in a nutshell:  (1) he will change the grade to a C- if she resigns all of her posts at USM, and recedes into the general population of the Pine Belt; (2) he will change the grade to a C+ if she resigns all of her posts at USM, recedes into the general pop of the PB, and agrees not to ever write any pro-SFT letter to any newspaper or magazine located in any Mississippi-contiguous state, including of course Mississippi; finally, (3) he will change the grade to a B- if she resigns all of her posts at USM, gets the he!! out of the 'Burg, and fulfills the honor not to write any letters as in (2) above.  She is reportedly running the numbers on each option.  He tells me she's doing some number crunching on her revised GPA for TCLS so she can do a cost-benefit analysis of each proposal.  The pros in each case involve varying degrees of "resume pumping," while the constant con is loss of her "academic sugar daddy."  Hopefully we'll know something soon.

Meanwhile, I have good news to report.  I spent the entire morning and some of the afternoon in exhaustive, but productive, meetings with Don Cotten.  Do you all know him?  Well, I do now and I can only say some things might fall into place this Summer.  More on that as time goes by.

Finally, I didn't attend either graduation.  My risk manager attended the first one at 2:30 pm, but left after Governor Barbour's address.  As he reported, Barbour also slipped away and the two of them, along with Jared Loftus, had a cordial conversation in a private room over in the Payne Center.  Barbour was told that it would be smart for him to listen align himself politically with a smart south Mississippian.  My RM then pointed to Loftus, who then turned to a large stereo system and cranked up "Sweet Virginia" by Train.  MY RM didn't know about that song before, but was told about it by Loftus in a brief encounter the two of them had last week.

Heard we missed some interesting sights from the second graduation.  We are going to look into the authenticity of some of those over the weekend.  More later.

Your Judge,

Tom