down time

Meant to attend a symposium at NYU today, but got down there and basically turned around and came back home (after picking up some Indian food!).  Need some head space after a fairly full week.  I've just started reading Joseph Bruchac's March Toward the Thunder, and on the 10th page there's a list of Civil War battles: "Shiloh, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg."  Then as I wove my way through Manhattan's grid, I came up the block and saw a similar list of battles...