Leisure time needed

I got a rough draft (but no Literature Cited and no tables) of the paper typed up yesterday (And it's not absolutely due until the end of August - so I would even have time to finish it up after I get back).

So I decided to take today and tomorrow off. (Well, I try, as much as I possibly can, to take Sundays off from work (and from "commerce," for that matter), as some kind of a pale shadow of the old Sabbath-keeping. Because, Ten Commandments aside, I think it's important psychologically for people to take off one day out of seven and to avoid some of the more frustrating aspects of modern life. (I will, however, clean house or work in the yard on Sundays if I feel so inclined, and I realize that's out of the old spirit of Sabbath-keeping, but as I don't regularly weed or dust during the week, and, as I've said before, at times when I needed to pray or work something out in my own head, it actually seemed to go better with some kind of low-grade physical work like weeding...)

I am greatly pleased to see that in a few minutes, a "marathon" of my new favorite cartoon is beginning. (Oh, I've probably seen every episode that exists at least once so far - one of the challenging things about cartoons is that they take more time, effort, and money to make than, say, a game show - but it's still enjoyable to me, even repeats).

I'm working away on the second Weasley Homestead sock; I have a vague goal of finishing these and the Mini Mochi socks before my short break so I can feel like I can begin some new things over it.

(I am very much looking forward to break. Both the meetings, and just being able to get away to somewhere that MIGHT be cooler - though one person on CPAAG who lives about 35 miles from my parents posted yesterday that their heat index was 106 - and then the whole getting-away, having a chance to eat meals that I didn't have to cook, and all that.)