The One Item on my Checklist I Know I Can Check Off

I like to abide by the checklist;  I'm also a bit of a perfectionist - a bad combination to have when my checklist grows to the length of the week and the week lasts barely a day.
On a typical day, here's what my checklist might look like:

1. Read 30 pages of the Faerie Queen for British Literary History (Note to self: if you try to do this past midnight, you'll have to start over in the morning.)
2. Read the first half of the debate on Free Will between Erasmus and Luther (A very interesting debate, but I'd much rather discuss it than read it. Too bad you can't really discuss what you haven't read.)
3. Review for a quiz in Linguistics (well, it's for extra credit, which for anyone else would mean, "oh good, I can wing it" but me, I know how rare a gem "extra credit" is, so this means a good hour or two of review)
4. Practice for my ballroom waltz test (this means finding a time that works for both myself and my dance partner, which is quite the task when my schedule alone leaves little to be negotiated.)
5. Read the assigned chapters for my Book of Mormon and New Testament class (if this weren't being squeezed in some time after midnight it would actually be a quite enjoyable, if not refreshing task)
6. Edit articles for the student journal Schwa (yeah, so I really don't know what I'm doing yet. I'm told that's okay - I'm not expected to know exactly how to do it, but once again, I'm a perfectionist, and so this sense of incompetence is not okay)
7. Review and rate articles for the student journal Criterion (they're actually quite interesting, it's just finding the time. That, and after reading all my other reading assignments, I'm generally not in the mood to read more)
8. Finish an essay on Chaucer (this is one of those reoccurring items that just keeps getting transferred to the following day's list, with a little extra weight each time. Usually we gain weight together, as in, "This essay is stressing me out. I need some chocolate.")
9. Practice my French Horn (getting down to the practice rooms definitely counts as practice time, right?)
10. Do laundry (to be done in the wee hours of the morning so I don't have to wait for enough washers to be open so I can get it all done at once)
11. Buy more milk (cold cereal's pretty bland without it. Besides, what else would I have for my second dinner? The dining center closes at 7:30 and around midnight I'm thinking, what college student is still satisfied at midnight with a dinner he ate five hours ago? That's what the vending machines are for, true, but even those can get old, and somehow a bowl of cold cereal always sounds good.)
12. Make my bed (I consider this accomplished so long as it is done before I climb back in it at night)

Looking at this, all I want to do is take a nap, but of course there's not time for that - I have to finish my checklist first . . .
But then I had the brilliant thought to add "nap" to my checklist. No sooner had I done so than I was crawling in bed, smiling, and thinking to myself, now at least there's one item I know I can check off.

Candidly,
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