Successful Weekend! No Spoilers!

I've had a most successful weekend!

1. My mother and cousin came up for Art Fair, and we had a good time. They lucked out in that the weather was perfect on Friday -- not too hot, and no crazy storms. (I love the view from my office window sometimes.)
   
   
2. I read the Harry Potter book! I enjoyed it, but don't have anything particularly insightful to say, so I won't make a post here about it -- I've just been commenting elsewhere. Please don't put any spoilers in the comments here.
   
   
3. I went jogging today, and totally wilted in the heat. It was like 80 F outside. I definitely prefer jogging in temperatures of 30 F to 30 C, and probably 25 F to 25 C, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm not in terribly good shape right now -- yoga twice a week is not cutting it. So! I am going to work out at least four days a week, and if that's successful then I'll up it to five, then six.
   
   
4. I parked my ass in a coffeeshop today and read a bunch of papers I needed to read for work. Yay!
   
   
5. I'm also reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, and really enjoying it. I wasn't sure if I'd like magical realism, but so far so good.
   
   
6. I practiced more with the stick shift today, and ugh. I'm getting better at turning, and starting on a slight uphill, but I hate ever second of it. I also stalled like fifteen hundred times, in my stubbornness to start on the uphills without the emergency brake.
   
   
7. I'm giving a talk to physics grad students on Wednesday, and I'm not finished with it. Not at all. I have a good outline, though, and I have most of the plots I need for it, but I'm in the middle of learning Keynote, which I'm not a fan of so far. The interface for Powerpoint on the Mac was actually pretty good, and I know it's just a matter of getting used to a different interface, but eh.
   
   

Okay, in retrospect it doesn't seem like much, but it was a good combination of relaxing and productive. Hope you all have good weeks ahead of you!