Anticiptation - how do you deal with it?

and i've spelt it incorrectly in the title. Brilliant.

Anticipation or dread? Or best when slightly mixed together? I don't know. Like the feeling you get when you have to go on a blind date?

...or the feeling you have when you have to desperately try to get tickets for a very oversubscribed festival on sunday morning...

Could be any concuntion, I was actually thinking when I started the question of 'happy' anticipation. Like when you 'believe' something is going to be better than it actually will be. (most cases)

Noodle, i was thinking of this guy too when I was typing the question :)

I like the anticipation before a gig. When you plan it for ages and ages, and get really excited about it, and thinking about how much fun it is going to be. And then about the night before, once it seems really really that you're going to be playing it, you start to get the butterflies in the stomach, and then once you're in the venue waiting, it's that most delicious feeling of being really excited and really nervous.

And then you go on, and it's great and it feels like you're flying on the adrenaline and then you get really drunk afterwards, partly on booze and partly on relief that it went well.

Unless of course, it doen't go well, and you die up there, in which case the butterflies turn into TIGERS and eat you alive and it is the worst feeling in the world.

For me blind dates are way over balanced with dread, too much for me to appreciate any anticipation I might have already had.

I agree with Jacques up to a point, but I'm pretty sure the moment of consummation is better.

anticipation + result = RESULT!

i guess more often than not the anticipation part lasts longer than the moment of consummation, being the reason why the majority of people prefer it.

My favourite dread+anticipation moment was going to NY for the first time on my own. Dread because obv I had absoloutely no idea what to expect and anticipation for the fact that no matter what *did* happen, good or bad, it would all be worthwhile.

I experience a lot of anticipation 'let downs' when I look forward to certain movie releases, the only exception is when a movie is surprisingly decent - there would have been no anticipation at all. if that makes sense.