"I hate it when that happens." Franklin replied. "Don't suppose I get to drag you out for lunch? There's a great shawarma place in town. And I think if I stay in this office any longer, I'm going to become symbiotically fused with the New York state curriculum.

They will call me Outcome. It will be terrible." He grinned broadly. "And men shall behold the power of my attainments and tremble. I'll assess them all to oblivion. Formatively and summatively."