Is Brain Awareness Week!  To commemorate the occasion, I plan on actually using my brain for once.  My job interview is next Friday, and I am going to need all of the brain power, good vibes, and jazz hands that people can muster!

Holden has been doing a great job with his various babysitters.  Today he was away from me all day and he did GREAT.  I missed him so much and thought about him often throughout the day, but I was fine.  I was so excited to be able to go pick him up at the end of the day.  He had a great time playing with his new friend Mallory and getting to explore all of her toys.  Their nanny is very sweet and is super awesome with the babies.  If we end up staying in Burlington, I will want to keep him in this nanny share .  Their house is literally a 1-minute walk from our house.  I just cut through our neighbors’ backyard and voila—I am at their front door.  

I guess I got a lot done today, but the time flew by faster than I would have liked.  I worked on transitions with my talk, re-arranged and re-organized certain parts of the talk, and double-checked a lot of my facts.  My living room is a mess of uncategorized journal articles and notebooks half-filled with half-baked ideas.  This blog post is an exercise in procrastination, as I really should be cleaning up the stacks so I can get a fresh start tomorrow morning.  It was a pretty productive day, although I felt so sick for part of it.  I really haven’t felt better even after my bout of antibiotics last month.  I was on the mend for about a week and now I have the same illness that comes and goes intermittently.  My sinuses are so congested that I have intense headaches in the middle of the day, every day.  I am also bruising everywhere on my body, large black marks that seem to emerge for no apparent reason.  I do need to go back to the doctor, as I am pretty sure that the breastfeeding is wiping me out.  I probably just need to make some adjustments to my diet, maybe take some supplemental vitamins.  Nevertheless, I can’t go back to the doctor until this job stuff is out of the way and I have time again to run little errands of that sort.  For my talk, I plan on taking a bunch of medicine in the morning so that I won’t have to contend with debilitating headaches while talking about this:

As this is enough to give you a headache on its own.