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buried the day under white pages of student writing … some of it quite good … but too much altogether .. and not done yet … though i managed just now tonight to count the ap discussion board … also there quite happy with the mostly high-quality considerations of Lot 49 & Hard Times & all that …

so now monday’s gone … first day of whichever year we’ll call 2007 … tomorrow’s another day of plugging through the last big ap essay … the one where they had to apply wm. h. gass’s notions about character to some of the stufff we’ve read so far … they tell me (directly & indirectly) that these are bad papers, but i’m hoping to find some happy surprises … surprises being ideas (or expressions of ideas) that teacher himself had not thunk …

one good thing about counting posts is that i get to listen to the iTunes shuffle while i make them little dots …

o … i took a little time this afternoon to scavenge through Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006 … and found quite a few lovely bits … (thanks, mom & meg) … but the project as a whole has it problems: some mind-boggling selection criteria (way uneven, especially over the past 25 years or so) … and a weird goof right at the end of disc four where we’re promised a poem called ’scab’ by jonathan lamfers but instead we get a poem called ‘occupation’ by eliza griswold … followed by an unlisted ‘tiger’ by the same poet … no lamfers at all … sucks to be him i bet (especially since he gets special mention in the written intro essay) … bummer

then again … i’m not finding any mention of this goof in reviews i’ve found … hmm … maybe i gots a collector’s item …

o boy … in this review/interview the compiler actually uses the word “frisson” … o dear …