there were some super bizarre errors that I had to sift through, which is why I moved some south to the bottom. In theory, the method I used to split up `INSTALLED_APPS` is totally legal because `settings.py` is just python. However, the app would crash if `INSTALLED_APPS` was split up and/or ordered in certain ways. I couldn't find any rhyme or reason, so I just kept trying until it worked.