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Procrastination is the thief of time

So while being a thief, why not employ procrastination to be productive?  Like updating my blog.  I don't know how productive this actually is...but hey.  In procrastinating my paper, I've gotten a lot done!  For instance, today I updated my journal on a bunch of things I've overlooked the past couple of days.  And I started cleaning my room/packing for the mission.  And I labelled a couple hundred pictures.  And I caught up with friends.  And I worked.  And I volunteered at the Temple.  And I went on a date.  And...yeah.  See?  Not completely a waste of time!  All those are good things!  But I'm at the point where I KNOW I need to do this paper, but I just can't seem to focus.  I can focus on anything else, but this task for some reason seems way too daunting.  But I need to finish it like a month ago, but in reality, tomorrow is basically the last day I can really finish it without a huge panic before I leave.  If I wanted to push it for real, I could finish it by Monday, and then just take my final, say, the Thursday or Friday before I leave.  yeah, good plan...NOT.  Either way, it'll be that week.  But if I keep procrastinating, I'm just going to screw myself up in this class, and that's no good.  Ugh.

So back to the paper for me.  I need some inspiration or something.  My phone is off, there's nothing new on facebook, I've already written in my journal, I don't have any more House episodes to watch, so really there should be nothing to distract me...right?  Okay, here's the test.  I'll let you know how it goes!
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