Four days before the GRE exam.  1.5 review books and 3000 vocab words to go.  Logical move: study.  Actual move: click on a facebook ad for $150 louboutins.  spend the morning and early afternoon reading up on the shoe piracy business and debating with fellow shoe enthusiasts (gina). 

 In theory, I should be very stressed.  Luckily, I have a recently formulated theory: enthusiasm defies logic in short term situations.  Examples:

1. 2002: I pass my driving exam.
2. 2004: Puerto Rico basketball team beats America.
3. 1989-2010: Vanilla Ice.

Later

Surfing Wikipedia.  Came across “stage 3 neurotic rationalization.”  Damn.