It's my life; It's now or never

If I get one thing out of my education, it will be the art of procrastination and its correlate, getting shit done quickly (quality not guaranteed).

I don't want to disparage the value of procrastination and getting shit done quickly, because I mean, really, where would the world be without them? On the other hand, with three full days left until my killer exam, I should really try to spice it up a bit. With studying, perhaps. I have no excuses if I can't do well on this, so I really need to get my act together.

I think that means taking the excrutiating step of uninstalling my free civilization 4 demo. I tried using it as an incentive to work more efficiently, and that's effective - except for the fact that a single game takes 1.5-2hrs. Not the kind of breaks I can afford. I think I need a smaller reward, like five minutes of checking my e-mail, or something like that.

At any rate, these are painful lessons to have to be learning this late in exam period.

Another lesson: Mischa, don't fuck up your sleep schedule. You think it'd be simple, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have a meeting at 8am tomorrow (well, technically today), and I can try to wake up for it, but I think the more effective thing would be to use the time b/w now and then studying, and then do my best to stay awake until nightfall. Keeping me company on this journey will be my faithful Red Bull and non-drowsy cold medicine (shoutout to psuedoephedrine! Yeah!). The medicine is legit, too, since I have a sinus infection. I think that calls for a shoutout to sinus infections. Yeah!

The unfortunate consequence of staying up late is that you end up eating lots of late night snacks. I'm trying to figure out a way of studying that doesn't involve gaining a kazillion pounds (sounds like hyperbole, but in my case, just trust me). My strategy has been to drink a lot of water and only eat South Beach Diet Meal Replacement bars after dinner, unfortunately, one cannot expect to eat one's weight in SBDMRBs without putting on the pounds. They're amazing, but they're not miracle workers.