From late-April to mid-October 2012, 22 large fiberglass brains will dot the City of Bloomington and Indiana University's campus. The installations are part of the Brains Extravaganza, a project that brings City institutions together to promote "brain awareness, education, injury prevention, recovery, and the importance of movement on mental and physical health." The project is sponsored by Jill Bolte Taylor BRAINS, Inc.

I don’t mean to say I don’t admire the people who live here. I have a job that involves talking with the most impressive individuals – artists and administrators, philanthropists and philosophers, poets and politicians. I might spend one day discussing the future of medicine, another learning about musical composition, and the next one hearing firsthand how a nation was built."

"At 6:20 every morning in Bloomington, I crawl into a van that drags me to Indianapolis and spits me out at Monument Circle. In the evenings, I chase it down like a train-hopper and try to get some work done until my stomach can’t take it any more.

The commute could be worse, way worse. My vanpool is incredibly well organized and cheap (thanks to the Central Indiana Commuter Service), and my commute is only fifty miles. However, I still get asked often: “why don’t you just move closer to work?”

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