1. Gratefully stop working on project that is due in three days.
2. Think of a title.
3. Fruitlessly search for late-night snack in kitchen.
4. Pet cat.
5. Write first list entry.
6. Write second list entry.
7. Notice extreme similarity of first and second list entries.
8. Scrap original concept for list.
9. Reflect that any idea for a list contains the seeds of its own repetitiousness.
10. Resort to cheap self-reference.
11. Pet cat.
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