Help me organize my life

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Well school's over (aside from one small summer class), and my life has fallen down the toilet in terms of motivation. All I do all day now is sit at home and netsurf. And it isn't productive surfing either-- I just obsessively go over the same cluster of blogs (plus Facebook and Youtube) over and over again, as is routine for me. Ideally, I should be doing more to find jobs (aside from sending the odd cover letter to a job that looks promising), or more reading, or more ANYTHING, but I just find myself sinking back into the same routine.

I feel like I'm sinking into a black hole here. I feel like all the skills I learned at library school are sinking down the drain, that I'm not keeping aware enough of events around me, that my life right now is an unorganized train wreck. Just today, I found out that I was performing the wrong role, for two whole months, at the library I'm volunteering at, because the e-mail detailing my proper role was lost in the clusterf**k that is my yahoo mail account. To sum it up, my life feels like a complete and utter mess right now, and I don't know the first place to start in cleaning it up. I've considered making an agenda for myself to follow each day, but I think the hard part will actually be following it instead of lapsing into laziness.

Any suggestions on how to impose some structure into my life right now?

An online drill sergeant! I've often thought I could use one myself. Someone to nicely but straightforwardly tell me what I need to do next. It's easier for another person to see what needs to be done because they don't have the knowledge they they themselves have to do these things hanging over them.

I could try to be your drill sergeant. I'm not sure how that would work though.

An in-person one would work well too.

I feel a bit like that right now, so I go out and work in my yard. I feel better in the afternoon if I force myself to do a little each morning, also I enjoy it once I get started. If you don't have a yard, try getting outside and walking, or pull weeds in my yard.

I tried using an imaginary drill sergeant. I didn't keep with it though.

This is coming from a rather disorganised fellow himself so caveat emptor.

Take an assessment of yourself. You're 24 and just finished school. What did you study?

Use Facebook to your advantage and start networking. Perhaps a friend of a friend might be looking for someone who has your skills or talents.

Don't use the same mail account that is linked to Facebook for email related to your volunteer position at the library. You'll sort through a million messages and spam before you find the important stuff. Create a new account for your library work.

Get a digital cooking timer and place it near your computer. Set the timer for a specific amount of time before web-surfing. When the timer goes off, stop web-surfing and do something else.

I'm quite scatterbrained and I find that I need to write things down, even if that means just logging things into a computer. Each day, I make a to do list at work for the following day. I'll often use Outlook to keep track of my tasks. I usually don't follow the to-do list to the letter but I usually get most of the scheduled tasks done. You could use this in your personal/at-home life too.