Call Me & Tell Me What You Wait For

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Call anytime, leave a message, I am not waiting by the phone!

For the Movers

Well I have been a touch lax [ha!] on this blog, but sometimes it's because I'm waiting for work and happen to be shaving, and sometimes it's because I'm packing because my roommate kicked me out. I suspect it's because she secretly wanted my room, the biggest one with a double closet - I'd been waiting to have a room with a closet since 1999! - but I'm waiting for confirmation on that. Unrelatedly, her dog recently got a case of the runs, and all the otehr roommates and I have been waiting often for her to come home and clean. Le sigh.

So I've been absorbing all my belongings into cardboard boxes and trying to find reputable movers in brooklyn who won't break the bank. I waited to hear back from an old aquaintaince who had the number for movers who came highly reccommended and when I got the number I didn't wait to call, and got a confirmation the same day. Now I'm waiting for an appropriate time to call my old and new landlords and finalize everything. My mom always told me you have to wait until after 10:00am to call someone at home. I get it, 9 - 10 is coffee hour.

Trying to buy tickets

Yup. I've been online for an hour and I'm still in the search engine part of trying to buy a fucking ticket to go to San Fransisco. How much longer will it take? I'm trying to be economical, but time is money all around, you know!

time goes by so slowly

When that song was written, there was no high speed internet. No instant around the world connections. No dual processor speed computers. No yesterday to have something done.

When I get an assignment, I have to jump on it. To create instantly or forget about it, always in the face of the other competitor who needs no sleep as opposed to my six hours a night. And still, I fall behind.

So today I am waiting to figure out how to get it all done in a day. Surely it's not because I blog too much (lol) or because I wank or read or play too much.

I'm also waiting for my most recent job pursuit to pay off. So far I've made $75. I have worked about 80 hours at it this month. Now that I'm doing the math I'm likely to cry again. Especially as I watch my fabulous colleagues rake in the dough. I'm holding nothing against anyone, but I really wish there was something specific to blame.

Le sigh.

Waiting to get better

Either Im waiting for life or waiting to get back to it.

Today I'm sick with a cold that's been going around the city. Fucking virus-ridden NYC. It's 'only' been four days, but I am good and ready to be healthy again.

So today I'm waiting for health.

Audio: midnight on a corner

LaLa Love You

W#2

Yesterday I waited for three hours to learn some really fascinating psychology. It was not a painful waiting, but still.

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When you wait for me, I feel like I've achieved something, or maybe just not lost that which I waited to get.

When *you* wait, is it for good or to avoid evil?

And I Waited To Do This, Too

W#1:
How excited I am that I got up from a three hour nap to do this. Start a blog about waiting, not really about procrastination - although the two are not fully separated.

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I'm doing this because:

Because I wait all the time and it's completely normal. It's not driving me to the edge or making my life stand out from anyone else's. It's a fully integrated functionality of modern life, waiting.

Router's down. Train's late. Boss is busy. Don't have the training yet. Gotta get there. It's in the mail. The auction's almost over. It's recording right now, don't shake it.

Mostly because I'm curious about the normalcy of waiting for life, when once you've waited enough, it's over.

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Reading this blog, look forward to:

-Posts about what I waited for on a given day
-Challenges and excitements on docmenting my and others' waiting
-New and creative methods of documenting waiting
-Some bitching about waiting
-Links to my webpage [and podcasts] on waiting
-Probably a waiting related manifesto, eventually

Thanks for waiting!