25 things that help you get through that last essay of the term:

1. Opening six or seven generally-related books and placing them in various areas of your vision
2. Opening Microsoft Word even when you have no idea what you're going to write
3. Changing the font size, line spacing, and margins until they are just right
4. Relocating the laptop to the floor
5. Relocating the laptop to the bed
6. Re-relocating the laptop to the desk
7. Taking a shower
8. Getting completely dry with your fuzzy towel (approx. drying time: 30 min.)
9. IMing all the people you really should talk to, because it's been so long
10. Looking out the window. Maybe you'll see someone get mugged and be a hero by calling the cops!
11. Turning on the space heater
12. Turning off the space heater
13. Checking Myspace
14. Checking Facebook
15. Sending people free gifts on Facebook--they need to know they are appreciated
16. Figuring out the words to that Fleetwood Mac song that's on the veeeeery edge of your head
17. Read CNN or BBC because you have a responsibility to stay informed
18. Blog
19. Skim through one of the open books on the floor, get all huffy about its uselessness
20. Look up your topic on Wikipedia
21. End up reading about something completely unrelated but awesome, i.e. Zelda Fitzgerald
22. Wondering why your jaw hurts so much and wonder if you've been unwittingly stabbed by a rusty object
23. Listen to the wind blooooooooooooooow, watch the sun riiiiiiiiiiiiiiise. Run in the shadooooooooooooooows, damn your love, damn your lies
24. Search through all your classical music to find just the thing to set the mood
25. Switch from Stravinsky to Beethoven to Brahms, end up on the Fantasia soundtrack. again. Start writing.