October and November have been hectic for me in terms of travel and deadlines—even more than usual. Highlights included:

* An invited manuscript for Cortex due October 1;
* Oh yeah we bought a house! And moved in October 1st;
* An NIH grant due October 15th (first submission of a small grant—an R21);
* A one-night trip to Boston to meet with Art and Murray about grant things;
* A short trip to Nijmegen, The Netherlands to give a talk at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics;
* A one-night trip to Washington DC to give a talk at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (which I just got back from).

AND, a grant deadline November 5th, which was a resubmission of an NIH grant. The initial submission was scored in the 23rd percentile (which is decent, but not fundable), so I'm optimistic that this revision might do the trick. (Except for times when I'm pessimistic that it wasn't good enough...). The grant will get reviewed in February, so for now there is nothing to do but wait. (And write more grants.)

It feels good to have knocked several of these off my to-do list, but coming up is a talk at the Society for Neuroscience meeting. SfN is the largest annual meeting in neuroscience with around 30,000 attendees. Now they won't all come to my talk, but it will probably be one of the largest audiences I've spoken to, filled with former and current mentors, friends, and colleagues. I definitely feel a lot of pressure! It will probably be fine but I need to spend much of the next week preparing.

Ok, I'm tired just looking at my own list. Back to work!

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