First, spend the hours leading up to evening being productive. (ex: go to the gym, clean out your kitchen cabinets, put away laundry, find a Halloween costume, have a good conversation with a close friend who also happens to be your roommate).
Then, get together all of the articles that you have to read during the upcoming week. While it’s a fat stack, it will seem more manageable when you actually see it in front of you. Enjoy those readings, even if they are mandatory and you’re too immature to enjoy doing that which is required of you.
Continue by going to your current favorite coffee shop. Criteria for current favorite coffee shop: must be independently owned, within driving distance, offer free parking, and have cushy couches, good coffee, Russian fruitcake.
Spend a couple of hours studying, pausing periodically to joke and laugh with aforementioned roommate, while listening to MGMT and Elliott Smith. Which you can do, because you’re at your current favorite coffeeshop, and they play MGMT and Elliot Smith.
Finally, smile and enjoy your finished product. Because even though you spent the day and evening doing things you actually should be doing… you enjoyed it.
damn. sounds like a good day. heh, and it was. i love you