
I just wrapped up an annotated bibliography (you're reading this on Thursday afternoon, but I'm writing it in the wee hours of Thursday morning). Annotated bibliographies are inherently soul-sucking: read, summarize, evaluate, repeat as necessary. Granted, I have a slightly deeper understanding of my potential dissertation topic now, but my eyeballs might fall out of my head. And I've had way too much coffee. I turned to my electronic mail for some good news (there is no good news in annotated bibliography land, only lather, rinse, repeat). I opened up an email from the Dead Oceans people to [...]