I had another glass of wine and ended up sleeping about four hours of broken sleep last night: definitely not an ideal situation. I think I will do some writing for the rest of the morning and try to get some rest before heading to the gym when it opens at 6AM. I still just cannot get myself into a position where I am sleeping very well at the moment.
I’m still thinking about the paragraph I routed to the NIH the other day concerning my leave of absence from my postdoc to do the architecture bootcamp. I think overall it takes a lot of courage to do that. To say that I will completely pivot my research interest in the direction of the arts and combine that with my scientific training. I feel like people get fired for that. Yet, it’s that type of imagination and divergent thinking that I think leads to real breakthroughs in any field.
I’m also just thinking about what I would do in the next three hours before the gym actually opens. I’m not really sure on that front. Maybe I’ll just keep writing. I don’t know. I still have to come up with topics to discuss, and I dare say that with two to four hours of broken sleep, I’m not going to be able to do so.
On a particularly random note, I’ve been tracking the word count for every one of these posts, and I have this desire to sort of increase it a little with each one. I’ve noticed that many of my posts tend to be under 300 words. And maybe it’s time to try and get it over 300. I think that’s a more favorable length for a blog.
The Ivory Tower 
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