How to Procrastinate a Thesis

Things I Have Done Today:
-Learn how to play the guitar
-Watch random tv show
-Read news stories on NPR and Le Monde's website
-Read emails
-Read through my Google Reader
-Make foods to eat
-Overbook myself on several different days
-Think about what I should be doing
-Open up Microsoft Word documents for my thesis
-Almost clean my room
-Clean dishes
-Put away dishes
-Minimal amounts of getting dressed and other things to make myself presentable to the general public
-Browse amazon.com
-Write out my tithing for tomorrow
-Agree to go to ward prayer tomorrow night
-Procrastinate calling friends about dinner tomorrow night
-Watch trailers for movies on apple's website
-Watch trailers for movies on youtube
-Listen to Tété
-Listen to Ben L'Oncle Soul
-Spend a lot of time on google calendar thinking about what I have to do next week
-Think about running/showering
-Think about road trips I want to take, mostly either to Southern Utah or California
-Ditch out on Stake Relief Society service projects because sleep is more enjoyable

Tricks vs. Illusions

Things that disappeared in January:
-My contacts (eventually I got two packages of a year's supply, though)
-My motivation to write my thesis (maybe it wasn't ever there, actually)
-Free time
-The old relief society presidency I worked with
-An old roommate
-My will to bake/cook, for the most part
-Classes (for me!  and, except for the one for which I TA)
-Warm(er...) California weather (when I came back to Utah)
-Cold Utah weather (I've considered this week's highs in the 50s to be practically spring weather)
-My filter (actually, my language has only slipped when no one is around.  The rest of the time it's been quite intentional)
-The bishopric

Things that appeared in January:
-2011 Tintin calendar...
-Two years worth of contacts
-Cleaning checks
-Brand new RS presidency
-A mold-less macbook
-Plenty of things that are more fun than my thesis
-Sundance film festival (AND Tracy Morgan)
-2 seasons of 30 Rock on DVD in my apartment (curtesy of:)
-A new roommate
-Actually doing my MA paperwork stuff!
-New bishopric
-(for me, by way of Rob Macfarland:)A sweet new version of Metropolis on DVD

On the wings of desire

What I want Right Now:

-Attention Span (for homework purposes, mostly)

-Tomato tart

-Simultaneously more and less energy

-Willingness to socialize

-More time in the day

-Scapegoat for laziness

-Better GRE scores...

-Motivation to write my prospectus

-Around my French Table, coming in 4-6 weeks by USPS, free to me

What I want, eventually:

-Get into the history PhD program at Toronto University

-Finish my thesis

-A career, or at least some kind of money to live off of

-Fluency in French (more than what I've got right now...)

-A year (or more) in Europe

-Rest

Le parfait du paon?

Birds in Le Bestiaire d'Amour:

-Rooster

-Swan

-Crow

-Caladrius

-Turtledove

-Partridge

-Ostrich

-Blackbird

-Siren

-Crane

-Peacock

-Swallow

-Pelican

-Eagle

-Dove

-Magpie

-Vulture