As y’all may or may not have noticed, my last few posts have vaguely mentioned the fact that I was working on my M.A. thesis and that it was consuming my life until it very suddenly wasn’t anymore.

Like most graduate students, I focused my research on a topic that was incredibly interesting to me. I hoped my topic would be something that would maintain my attention months into the actual project, spurring me toward completion even when I was burnt out by academic journals and archival digs.