back to procrastinating

I never got around to writing any more after those 690 words, unfortunately, but I'm much more relaxed now. Yesterday my advisor talked to someone on my thesis committee (for unrelated reasons) and ended up discussing the qualifying exams and somehow it came up that it's really no big deal to postpone. I'm a little worried about why that actually came up - did he ask what to do with slackers like me? I'm the first grad student to go through the program with my advisor so hopefully he was just asking general questions... Anyway, he suggested to me that I postpone so I could get some more data.
I was actually feeling like I'd be able to get through it before he suggested that, anyway. It would've been nice to get it over with, but I'd rather actually pass, I think.
So now I'm trying to convince myself I should keep working on it, rather than just ignoring it until a couple of days before the new date, but so far no luck.
I'm doing some cool experiments now, though, and I'm even excited enough to come in over the weekend so I can get the results sooner.
I would love to do research on depression to figure out what the heck is going on in my brain that I can't make myself get out of bed one day, then for no apparent reason everything that was weighing me down no longer seems so insurmountable. Unfortunately that feeling doesn't make me actually do anything constructive. One of the things my psych person has set as a measure of whether the anti-depressants are working is how well I'm doing my work. Is that really something the medication should improve though? I'm more inclined to believe that I'm just a slack-arse.