Last night I had a dream that I had submitted an abstract of my Amy Winehouse paper to the AMS and they sent it back to me in the mail with every sentence crossed out in red pen.  And also “FALSE” was written in the margins, beside every sentence that had been crossed out in red pen.  And I cried and I was like “but I read Amy, Amy, Amy:  The Amy Winehouse Story so closely and thoroughly!  How could my entire theoretically framework be flawed?”  But it was.  And then I failed as a musicologist.

And that is the story of why I’m glad I didn’t submit anything to the AMS conference this year!