Amy blinked several times trying to focus on the words in front of her on the screen. Why couldn't she see them? she asked herself. What the heck? Amy reached up to adjust her glasses on her face. She wasn't wearing her glasses. Oh! So that's why, she thought.

Amy looked at the desk and then around her but couldn't find her glasses. She started moving around the lab trying to retrace her steps to see where she might have left them. When she bent over to look under the table, she felt something slide down her forehead and land on her nose. Her glasses had been on top of her head the whole time.

"Wow" she said. "I'd better call it a day".

Amy turned off her computer, hung up her lab coat, and grabbed her bag as she turned out the light.

She had been so forgetful lately, which was not like her at all. She had also been extremely tired. Maybe she was overdoing it although she wasn't sure how. Up until this week, she and Sheldon hadn't really done much of anything except spend a lot of time just relaxing at home free from work and any worries. Actually, it was like a second honeymoon for them and they enjoyed getting to know each other again after a terrible time of spending months apart.

Amy had been hurt tremendously by Sheldon's decision to focus solely on work last year and ignore her and their marriage. And after only being married less than six months! To Amy, it seemed as if all of the years she patiently waited for them to finally marry had not been worth it if it only lead to isolation. While Sheldon's motivation to immerse himself in work may have been primarily driven by his love of physics; she couldn't help but wonder if there was more behind his decision.

Amy recognized it was hard for Sheldon to deal with change. He thrived on homeostasis and while his daily routines may not have changed much, getting married was a huge altercation to his established persona. She knew sometimes those large changes overwhelmed him; however, she had not expected him to retreat into his work. She thought that they were past the days when Sheldon ran away when things got difficult.

Amy recalled, all to well, the times Sheldon would run, hide or try to push her away when his plans changed or he was unsure of the future. She remembered when he told her he wanted to see other women because he didn't want to share a toothbrush holder when they first moved in together. Or the time when he literally put on a disguise (although not a very good one) to hide from her when she asked him to meet her mother years ago because he thought it would change their boy-slash-friend-slash-girl-slash-friend status. She also remembered how mad she was when he ran away and left on his train trip without even saying good-bye. That one hurt. A lot.

However, Amy recognized Sheldon tried to change and show her how he felt when he returned from that trip. She recognized that even now he continued to try to change. Even after everything they had been though, with every misstep and set-back, such as their break-up years ago or even those terrible months apart last year, Amy knew that above all else, Sheldon loved her and she loved him. And that love transcended all.

Thank goodness he realized sooner rather than later the impact his neglectful actions had on Amy and their marriage before it was too late. He really had changed. And, thank goodness that paper was done! Although, that paper was the reason that she was back to not seeing Sheldon again. Well, at least not in person since he started his speaking tour.

Sheldon's paper on super asymmetry (and technically hers she thought as she shook her head) rocked the science community. It took a while for word of mouth to start generating a lot of buzz about their theory because most of academia was not engaged much during the January term, but when the word did get out, Sheldon was inundated with requests for interviews and speaking engagements to discuss the concept.

Which was how he and Amy ended up apart again as he was currently on a two week speaking tour at universities on the east coast. Amy looked at her watch as she got in her car to go home. With the time difference he should be getting ready to go on stage right about now. Maybe if she hurried home she could catch the live stream of his lecture.

Amy sat at the kitchen bar and sipped her water. "Ah, man! Not again" she whined as she waited once again for the live stream of Sheldon's speech to stop buffering on their home wifi. Amy was frustrated at not being about to hear him clearly. She was so proud of him. She knew speaking in front of crowds wasn't his favorite thing to do but he was so passionate about the theory that he was able to overcome any public speaking stage fright to tell others about it. Amy finally clicked angrily on the screen to stop the broadcast as she gave up. I'll watch the recorded video later, she decided.

Amy knew she should eat something but she never had liked cooking for just one. She and Sheldon had been having a lot of fun lately spending time cooking and experimented with healthy meal options in the kitchen. Although on more than one occasion they had to scrap the entire meal because they had accidentally let it burn while they were otherwise engaged in more amorous activities.

That was another reason the last month or so had felt like a honeymoon to Amy. She and Sheldon had never been more intimate than recently and she adored it. But, like all good things she supposed, their time locked away together in the oasis of apartment 4B had to come to an end.

Amy opened the refrigerator door to find some dinner but nothing looked appealing at all. In fact, the smell emanating from this week's leftovers turned her stomach a little. Yuck, she thought as she closed the door and grabbed some peanut butter crackers from the cabinet. She would need to clean the fridge out later. Right now; however, Amy was too exhausted to even think about cleaning. She finished her crackers and went straight to bed forgetting to turn off her laptop or even turn off the kitchen light.