Well, after several months of suffering through the stutters and the syetm freezes associated with iTunes 7, I finally ditched three months of user data and ratings, and went back to iTunes 6. Sigh. That’s several times that I’ve had that happen. I’m hoping that’s the end of the nightmare that was iTunes 7. I’ve seen several blogs calling for an “iTunes Lite”– something that would take advantage of all the neat stuff you can get in the iTunes store, but not all of the bloated features. Gapless playback might be nice, CoverFlow is not anything I want my memory wasted on.

Wrestling last night. We went to dim sum this morning, I got a haircut, and I did a little research. All of this was a means of delaying the real work; some days, some weekends, you need a little procrastination. When I finally started, I had a great deal of fun looking at student poems. I’ve begun re-thinking which assignments I’ll give to my students. I’m now a little in awe that I didn’t assign sonnets last semester. I’m close to giving up the sestina, villanelle, or pantoum assignment; my apprehension comes from the fact that one of the best poems submitted last semester was a sestina that came in for that assignment. And sestinas are hard little buggers.

I am reading a friend’s book, and I feel like I am being taken to school all over again. Holy cow.