The past couple of weeks I’ve been going a little insane because I’ve had so many things on my to-do list, but now I’ve started employing the strategy I used in college to fight my tendency to procrastinate. After sorting things out by urgency (and factoring in how late they might already be), I pick the thing on my “important” list that I least want to do, that I am dreading more than all of the others, and I do that one first to get it over with. Rinse and repeat until the only things left are easy or at least inoffensive.

Apart from that, my only hope is to remain as caffeinated as possible. (Which of course is the other thing I learned in college.)