Lady in Waiting

I've said it before: I don't do delayed gratification well.

I think it's why I was such a good fit for tv news. Every day I started with a fresh slate and every night I went home, having put a show on the air. Very rarely did I have something hanging over my head.

With that said, I've been doing a lot of waiting lately, and I'm in good company. In addition to all of the craziness with where we might live, and work, and when we might add to our family, there's the little matter of Hall of Fame. Those ten lovely assignments I shipped off 6 weeks ago with the hope that someone at CK would love them half as much as I do. And after a month of putting it on the back burner, call week is here.

Suddenly it's the only thing I can think about. I think about it while I'm catching up on emails, reading the message boards, folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen...you get the drift. It's on my mind a lot. And the funny thing is, it's not that I really sincerely expected to get a call when I sent in my entry. But now that I've had time to think about it, I've had time to HOPE. And hope can be a dangerous thing in cases like this. Because it will make the rejection harder.

So wait I will, and in the meantime there are plenty of things on my plate.