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I am currently waiting for the following:

Phone call to tell me if I will soon be full-time employed (I am thinking they would have called by now if I were to be, but who knows...)

The new washing machine to be delivered (hurrah - new washing machine - I am sadly excited by this).

PR person to get back to me and tell me if my request was within the realms of sanity (it isn't, but then again you never know).

The first of these is obv. the one that is looping me into knots.

I am not used to all the waiting things stacking up into one afternoon. I feel slightly like I did as a teenager when I'd spend hours in my bedroom waiting for my life to start.

So Ilx - what are you waiting for?

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

5pm

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Something exciting to happen

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

-5pm
-miraculous injection of cash
-a number of People In Publishing to get live

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Love.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

For the Weed Man to get back from Minneapolis!

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

i think i'm setting my sights a bit low.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Next Friday.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

tomorrow night
weekends generally
Pay Day
some real adventure/excitement in my life

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

i am also waiting for #1

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

* Weekend
* Show a week from today
* Band recording
* September, so I can make the next step at maybe going back to school

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

5 people to call me back
5.30pm
Pay day
My shit magically to get itself together of its own accord

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

various CD's to arrive as usual

christmas when i shall be spending my time in NYC, which i am counting the days for.

~~that special someone to say those immortal words~~

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

To wake up fully.

(Other things as well, but that'll do for now.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Nothing really. Or maybe a holiday. I desperately need it. :-(

Hope you get your full-time job, Anna!

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

ned

xpost

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

The Monkees' "Our Favourite episodes" DVD

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

nothing, as of yesterday afternoon.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

*A phone call to let me know my mate's waiting at the airport for a lift.
*Delivery of my hot new pc.
*Confirmation of a babysitter for Saturday so I can go see a dodgy old punk band.
*The new Kate Bush album (it's been a while)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Which dodgy old punk band?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

response from scathing email I sent to 2 managers today, asking them why they are so fucking complacent.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Nath. Me too.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I *think* they're called Turkey Brothers. They're from Coatbridge, have played about 20 gigs in 20 years, and once allegedly got The List's single of the week.
This is their first gig in 4 years and, I think, their last ever.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Aye, Turkey Brothers
http://www.ents24.com/web/event/979659/Turkey_Brothers.html

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

The Monkees' "Our Favourite episodes" DVD

From Netflix? You might be able to lift my fingerprints from that one.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

you're american

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

5.30
October
For me to finish this video game that's taking up my spare time, and get on with the rest of my life. But this is the pattern of the last few years, that I'm happiest when I have something to point at and say "That's really holding me back right now, but when it's cleared...". Then when I finish/give up on whatever's been taking all my time, I fill my life aimlessly with tiny bits of the things I thought would occupy me, until I find something else to blame for taking all my time.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Haha yes I thought this sounded familiar.

What are you waiting for?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

"response from scathing email I sent to 2 managers today, asking them why they are so fucking complacent."

Aaaah, you know what they're like, they probably just can't be bothered to reply.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Andrew I read that post as if you had put a date and time on when you are going to finish this game, October at half five.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

motivation to start unpacking or doing laundry or something useful like that. alternately, 1:00 to watch buffy reruns.

and andrew that is so true for me too that it's a bit scary!

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I just became suddenly inexplicably sad, with the realisation, as I was trying to think up some proper things to be waiting for... and I realised that I wasn't actually waiting for anything. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Probably bad because I don't seem to be anticipating anything, either.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

-i'm anticipating the film 'lord of war'

― N_RQ, Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

well then you're waiting for something to be waiting for ?

xpost

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

and 'Land of the Dead' (october)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

(xpost to kate) that may be good if it means you're content! or just that you need to make some weekend plans, maybe.

i'm very nervous about the feeling of waiting sometimes, when life is almost perfect and i'm waiting for one or two last things. it's a very foolish feeling, because this IS life and if i ever do get all my ducks in a row, i'm sure i'll feel like i'm waiting for something else. that's a different sort of waiting, though.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

For the first time in maybe forever I am not really waiting for ANY forthcoming music (i.e. new albums from bands i like or whatever) or films that eagerly. This is a little unsettling.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm hardly content... it's more like I have trouble getting a care on.

Things I should be anticipating:
1. My "sisXt0r" visiting next week, hanging out with her and her rock star friends, going to festivals and gigs and stuff
2. Shimura Curve gig in a few weeks

errrrrrr....

3. To The Ends Of The Earth coming out on DVD, so I can stop motion pretty Captain Anderson screen grabs WHENEVER I LIKE!!!

But it's not like I'm waiting or anything.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Someone to bring me a cup of tea

A particular cheque, which is supposedly "in the post"

The Panduro craft supplies catalogue which is beeing mailed to me, since WHSmith don't seem to stock it any more

Some Christmas-themed rubber stamps which I bought off ebay yesterday

An email from someone who used to be friend of mine, but who isn't a friend any longer

― C J (C J), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for my vacation to start (which will be a week from now) -- it's been so long since I've had a real break, I can't wait.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

My ship to come in (ie a promotion)
Twoo wuv
My bike basket to arrive in the mail

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

CJ: are they not a friend any longer because they haven't emailed?

There is a shop near the British Museum that *only* sells decorative rubber stamps.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Good luck Anna - am up for celebrating Monday onwards if necessary!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

-to finally become financially stable
-the Dinosaur Jr ticket that my brother sent me for my birthday last week to get here
-the Dinosaur Jr show tomorrow night
-to finally get a full-time job doing something i enjoy and actually learn from
-somebody to fix my login

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

- 2nd series of Peep Show on DVD
- my bank to send me a card for my new account
- my MA to be over so I can quit my job and get a better one
- it to be October so my fucking court case will have been and gone, hopefully

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

- a hole punch and some plastic folders from my stationery supplier

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

The waiting is the hardest part.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

WE WILL WAIT FOR YOU
IN OUTER SPACE

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

1 down 3 to go

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting (for) --

Friday so I can pick up my paycheck, and then later on go out to dinner with my friend Molly and company.

The reissues of OMD's Organisation and Architecture & Morality to come in so I can listen to them portably/tangibly.

To get the new Mira album.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

1) September - it's when the new year starts really.
2) Replies
3) Some kind of success

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

1) September - it's when the new year starts really.

i know, right?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Lost - Season 2, Sept. 21st

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

We at BearWatch are awaiting confirmation of a bear sigthing in the area. The bear is a grizzly and is considered extremely dangerous. The bear can be easily identified by a distinct hairless patch around the genital area, giving them the appearance of being bigger than they really are. The bear is male. Please be on the lookout and don't travel alone. I repeat, the bear is male.

― Bear Watch, Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

some things to go away
some things to return
heat to break
miraculous cash injection

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

achh. I am waiting for...I don't know what. Inspiration? To feel something other than complacency, malaise and ennui. I am not sad really but not happy in the way that I was as a kid. I think I miss that feeling of carefree, excitement at just waking up in the morning. Now it is just so hard to get out of bed in the morning because every day is the same. Maybe waiting for new television season, since I love television. How dull do I sound? Ick.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Code to compile. And then I go home.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I am waiting to be laid off. I've been waiting on this for several months now, and as it continues to not happen I'm getting irritable about it. They are still paying me; they want me to stay on. Yet. There is so little actual work to do and that is making the days unbearable. Is it better to jump off the boat or be pushed?

I'm also waiting for the water to be hot for more tea.

― Jaq (who is not a balding Frenchman) (Jaq), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I am waiting, agonisingly and desperately waiting, to be healthy again!!!! gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

I am also waiting in similar pain to see my girlfriend, in either Dublin or Edinburgh, hopefully sometime in the next few weeks.

I am waiting for my thesis result.

The first two are really combining to make me miserable.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

And ensuring I don't give a toss about the third!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Veronica Mars.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Not so much waiting, but anticipating: for the leaves to change colors, and the crisp smell of fall, and being being able to able to finally turn off the AC and roll down the windows and sunroof of my new car and zoom along the Potomac.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

me too

― youn, Friday, 19 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

also, the first snow

― youn, Friday, 19 August 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

also, for students to come back

― youn, Friday, 19 August 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

also, walking around in november listening to strange geometry on headphones. (my memories of suburban light were formed in columbus.)

― youn, Friday, 19 August 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

also, to run into felicity redwell at the barney's sale. (no, i'll probably not go and miss her, but i do need to get birthday presents for my brother and for my mom.)

― youn, Friday, 19 August 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

summer summer summer summer

also: to get home to my cds because i forgot to bring my ipod to work

― gem (trisk), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

The WEEKEND, and a lovely dinner for two at home on sunday with my boi who I have hardly seen in weeks due to our terrible shifts and long hours

Summer, yeah gem :D

For this job to get one better - for the shiftwork to bloody well end and us to get more staff so I can concentrate on improving my game and our procedures

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

Hmm...waiting to enjoy the weekend home, waiting to hear back on a couple of job things...waiting. This has been a year of waiting and I'm not sure how I feel about that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

waiting for the rain to stop so I can leave the house.

also: new can reissues.

― spruce bruce (haitch), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Mostly I'm just waiting for people to say OTM to my posts.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Hurting OTM.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

ned, otm.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 19 August 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

I am waiting for my baby to be born. She is due on Sept 5th.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

"I am waiting to be laid off. I've been waiting on this for several months now, and as it continues to not happen I'm getting irritable about it. They are still paying me; they want me to stay on. Yet. There is so little actual work to do and that is making the days unbearable. Is it better to jump off the boat or be pushed?"

Been there, done that, have the T-shirt in a variety of different colours and designs.

Shortest answer I can give: depends on your financial position, how many other jobs there are out there (it's nearly always easier to get a job when you've already got a job than when you haven't, unless the prospective employer happens to be desperate for someone who cam start immediately, and you're in a far better bargaining position re: your next package), and what the redundancy package is like / what you can persuade your employers to offer you to make you stay (my last employers were so anxious to have me hang around to the bitter end to wind the business up that they paid me several times more redundancy than I was contractually entitled to!).

NB also in the UK you can receive up to £30k redundancy payment TAX FREE - although you do need to be careful what you do with it when you get it, or you could end up shooting yourself in the foot re: claiming any sort of unemployment benefit!).

If in doubt, consult a good accountant - or better still a very naughty one like me.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

MY FUCKING SALARY WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN TODAY BUT WILL BE A DAY LATE BECAUSE MY FUCKING BANK FUCKING FUCKED UP AND MY WEEKEND IS THEREFORE FUCKED UP FUCK

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm not waiting for anything, I'm too busy doing things in preparation for upcoming stuff. I need to read textbooks for a course I start in mid-Sept, I need to sort posters and music and words for my clubnight next Friday, I need to sort out stuff for a DJing gig tomorrow night and perhaps a party afterwards, I need to speak to my editor, I need to reply to a bunch of emails, I need to sort out bills, I need to move out. It's good being busy though.

If I'm waiting for anything then I suppose right now I'm waiting for not-goodwin to come over and ask if I'm getting a brew. And I'm kinda waiting til lunch so I can go and sit on the bench outside the library and listen to the new Rachel Stevens and Tatu songs again.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Marcello,

Please go to weekend plans!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Onimo, which pc did you end up getting and from where? (maybe revivwe the other thread?)

An email from someone who used to be friend of mine, but who isn't a friend any longer

-- C J (CJ...@hotm...), August 18th, 2005

Sorry for being nosey, but what happened here?

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Nothing very interesting. A friendship which I had previously valued seems to have run its course. Or something.

It's been a difficult week.

― C J (C J), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting 5.30 pm to go get a bus and reach my baby, hug her tight and see how she learnt today to clap her hands.

― misshajim (strand), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Righ now I'm waiting at home for a guy from the council to come out and tell me I need a plumber. I called and asked for a plumber, but the woman said they had to send an 'assessor' out first..... Grrrrr. I need to poop, but he's going to be 'assessing' in my bathroom so I'm too scared to go.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

at least he isn't going to be asssesing on your couch. you should poop anyway (and just spray air fresheners afterwards)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Just poop and don't flush.

"I TOLD YOU I NEEDED A PLUMBER!"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for this book to finish printing before my boss gets here and realizes that when I come to work early sometimes -- not always -- I'm printing out a 401-page book on the company printer.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

onimo you are a genius!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

The valuation/survey on my house!!!

::bites nails::

Which reminds me, I should mail off the confirmation, duh.

― Tweed as F*ck (kate), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Onimo, I wish I had the (ha ha) guts to just shit. Knowing my luck it would be a double flusher and he'd come before the cistern filled back up. I'm a very shy shitter.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

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