1. At 3:00, embark on a working field trip with a few, fellow productivity-minded friends to the Getty Center Research Library, which is up high on a hill, far from distractions like, you know, campus and it’s plethora of distracting things to do/opportunities to take breaks from work for coffee.
2. Spend first hour of field trip in Getty Center Cafe, pondering important imponderable questions, the likes of which have kept graduate students occupied for centuries. (ie: “Who thought up garlic fries? I mean, who thought to themselves, I know, I’ll take these french fries, cover them in garlicky batter, fry them again, and then top them with basically an entire head of minced garlic and Parmesan cheese? Because that person – that person deserves a Ph.D. in Total Awesomness, if they don’t have one already.”)
3. Finally get to Research Library, one hour before closing time.
4. Spend entirety of said hour in library text messaging a boy.
5. Take side trip to Getty Center gift shop, to see if they still have those earrings (silver keyholes with pinup girls inside them) that you should have bought the last time you were here (and are now sold out).
6. Return to cafe and sit around drinking tea and making fun of undergraduates who think Einstein invented the phonograph (it was actually Edison, but both do start with E, I suppose) until 8:30 at night.
7. Return home with a profound sense of having gotten so much done.