Last night’s weirdness: apparently these PhD students convinced their department chair to accept their group project and provide funding and then they graduated before they had actually begun the project??!! I am trying to focus on the big-picture weirdnesses, not the typical misunderstanding of boring academic and library procedures, but what?&?&?!!! What are we supposed to imagine they got their PhDs for if not actual research?! (I am complaining but also I am having fun and I am into the romance anxieties actually)

@sarah Sarah that book was WILD. I hollered for like ten minutes straight when they introduced the database of EVERYTHING in EVERY library and archive and museum. Hahahahahaha. I wish.

@sarah now *that's* what makes this a fantasy novel!