struggling

I didn't think I earned a star on Thursday, since after going to seminar and lunch with the speaker, I just sat around wasting time online all afternoon, then went to see a band play. I had to pack to go skiing once I got home, but I was still intending to read some papers or do some work for long enough to get the star, even if it meant staying up until 2am, but I accidentally left my papers sitting on the printer, my data on the lab server and my sequences on the desktop, so I couldn't do anything. I'd resigned myself to restarting the current set of stars, but the Official Gold Star Arbitrator has ruled that since I hadn't explicitly said seminars didn't count as proper work, I can still claim my star, although seminars will no longer be admissible after this.
The first two star challenges seemed relatively easy, but I've been struggling with this one from the beginning. Most days, I've been scrambling to find something sufficiently work-related to make up the time late in the evening, having wasted all day reading blogs. I think I do better with things that have a timed (early) deadline and an incentive (greater than the stars, apparently) to finish. It's a lot easier to just put off the two hours' work until "later", if there's nothing (like being able to check my email) contingent on it. I didn't make the no-sugar thing the star requirement, because I wasn't sure I'd be able to stick to it, but it's seeming a lot easier than working.
I read this article recently, about a program where you have to pay (made-up currency) to send and read email. The idea is that you'll only spend this currency (and therefore, your time and attention) on email if it's really worth it. I wonder if I should implement something similar, where I have to work for a certain amount of time, to earn time to waste on blogs. I suppose I should really just activate the Kiwi Cloak, since that is pretty much what it's designed to do...