Dan’s poor parents asked me how work was today, so I was forced to give them a recap of the lesson.

To warm up, I sighed deeply and rolled my eyes.

“If I told you that the two of you were to create annotated bibliographies,” I said, “and as a pair, you could share three sources; but then each of you had to have three of your own, how many sources would you include in your bibliography?”

Jane looked at me skeptically. “Six,” she said, clearly wondering about the catch.

“Right,” I nodded, pausing for dramatic effect. “And I spent twenty minutes explaining that to my first hour.”


And we’re down to seventeen days, people. Seventeen days.