And now I continue to wait, but the nature of my waiting has been turned on its head.
To this day I have a figure of the diminutive dynamo in my waiting room as a symbol to remember that working in finance is a fight.
"I thought I played pretty well in that first set -- I was holding my serve and then waiting for my chance to break, " Jankovic said.
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As I sit here in my front my laptop waiting for Twitter to return, I think of what I find the most interesting aspect of this outage.
The first medical smell I encountered was one many years before I started training when as a young child I was cowering behind my Mum at the clinic waiting for my vaccinations.
As a child I had spent my evenings at home doing schoolwork, or trying to get a picture on the black and white TV, as a teenager I'd lain in my room fiddling with my yellow transistor radio, waiting for my favourite tunes.
So there sits my panic button waiting to be pushed, its very existence easing my mind.
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My pleas about waiting until paying to eat the candy were incomprehensible to a 2yo.
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Head uphill a few blocks to the transition area where my bike is waiting.
But I could count two quick beats in my head while waiting for Bing, and four for Yahoo.
But I missed my family, and when I came back, my place was waiting for me in the Djemaa el-Fna.
Last Thursday at approximately 11:59pm, I sat at my home computer waiting for the clock to usher in Friday, April 1st.
So the knowledge was there, sitting at the back of my mind, waiting to come true, when the doctor told me.
Sometimes I had to walk around my house, waiting for a connection to reestablish itself. (Metal doors and thick walls can block a Bluetooth signal).
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"I know where I'm from, I know where I'm going, my baby is waiting for me, he's happy, and I'm looking forward to eating Cheerios with him tonight, " she said.
"I've been waiting my whole life for this, so to be actually reaching for it is the best feeling ever, " said Kinder, a 6-3, 187-pound senior who played in two games last season.
When I sit out in the pasture, Lulu is usually the first to drift up behind me and rest her chin on the top of my head, waiting for her nose to be scratched.
Waiting my turn at the popcorn stand?
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Nor do I explain that my anxiety is so powerful I often can't leave my seat in the waiting area to go to a restroom because I fear that the moment I do my flight will board, even though I arrived an hour early.
My boss-to-be was waiting with a small sign that had my name in large black letters.
I'm just waiting for my little boy to come back - that's all I want now.
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Recently I was amused by a conversation I overheard while waiting for my Chinese takeout.
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It's ten to two in the afternoon and I've been waiting for my little sister, Vivi, since one-thirty.
Yet there I stood in a local GameStop store waiting for my wife to pay for the Nexus 7.
Unknowingly, three days flew by and I was at the San Jose airport waiting for my flight back to Vancouver.
Miracle of miracles, when I plugged it back in after that minute of waiting, my wireless internet starting working again.
"Instead of waiting for my doctor to determine when I need care, I feel like it makes me more accountable, " she said.
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While sitting in yet another airport waiting for my flight to board, I experienced a vivid reminder of just how powerful they can be.
As I sat waiting for my number to be called, I began to imagine what life would be like if every day involved being treated like this.
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