The week ahead or The List

So next week is my mid-winter break. Although I won't have to go to my classroom at all, I will have plenty of work to do:

• complete readings for each of my two graduate courses
• complete discussion questions & responses for the aforementioned classes
• complete an assignment/paper for each of these classes
• grade papers for all of my own classes
• prepare lessons for all my own classes
• prepare substitute instructions for all my own classes for three days of the following week
• arrange a carpool for my son for the three days that I'll be attending a graduate colloquium
• attend a graduate colloquium that begins Saturday
• practice yoga daily
• walk the dog daily
• have the car serviced: change oil & request little warranty repairs; rotate tires; wash
  
• wash & fold laundry
• do dishes
• do the custody shuffle with children and ex-wife
  
• shop for food
• watch TiVo with addictively reckless abandon
• read Watchmen
• bathe the dog
• press the Easy button
• do the Dew
• Just do it

Ok. Got it. Why do I need a vacation?