Aw, that's no fair. We've got both page and word counts to hit for *our* final. When I turned in a couple drafts of poems for peer review the other day, the immediate class response was "does this count as a page?" I have Ms. Wong, and she said that the word count was the thing to pay attention to. Which rather annoys me, especially in light of the unnecessary-word-deletion exercise which would appear to make poetry merely much-concentrated prose...

I think I lost track of my point here somewhere. It was probably that I'm glad to hear the pain here is shared, or something.