i mentioned the monstrous appearance of the front page of my site, brtom.org, over on the school computers … so … i tweaked the page a bit & got it down to 780 px width …

today the tech guy tried to adjust my school computer’s monitor display … but he still couldn’t get the whole width to fit … i.e. one must still scroll left & right … so …

i really need some feedback here (i’ve already heard from you, mom, thanks) … if you would take a moment to look at that page on your screen & tell me how it looks, i’d appreciate it much …

does it completely fill your horizontal space? do you need to scroll left & right to see the whole thing?

OR

does it fit nicely on the horizontal plane? and perhaps there’s even a bit extra on the sides … can you see your desktop back there?

this matters to me because i care how my site is being perceived … i know how irritating that left-right scrolling can be … and i wish i could introduce it to my students with it looking its best … alas, that don’t seem likely

suddenly wondering in between finding & editing handouts for class tomorrow … (where did i put that nabokov piece?) … wondering if the poems i make are posing or are in some way real things … wondering if they’re exercises or actualities … how could i know or anyone know?

this has always been part of my difficulty in reading poetry, too … i stand puzzled & curious before anyone who’s able to make an evaluative comment about any poem … (on which kind of thing the poetry blogs do thrive, of course) … but i do it sometimes … at least in my silence … i say i like that one or that one is not so good, in fact, it’s stupid it stinks (no, that’s some real bad sewer gas seeping up & out through the unused bathroom down the hall) … i do say these things to myself … so there must be some unspoken, unconsidered aesthetic criteria at work in me …

and of course i make choices when i write … i put down one thing then take it out because something is not right … but not right according to what part of my brain … where’s that file?

this would maybe be worth pushing a bit harder in my ap class?