What To Do While You’re Waiting
Gather round, folks- and settle in for a long day of waiting around, with nothing to look at but the ever-refreshing Virtual Waiting Room screen. As long as we’re all in the same boat, we might as well share the boredom together.
So feel free to use the comments on this post to talk about whatever you’d like – share your success stories getting tickets, or your frustrations. Talk about the Sox or baseball in general. Or give us your thoughts on last night’s episode of Friday Night Lights- or discuss who has the better wardrobe: Blair or Serena. Anything’s fair game!
Here’s some conversation topics to think about: let’s talk National League (since I have a feeling that once the season starts, the talk in the Sox world will be almost exclusively AL). Which NL club do you think will be playing in the 2008 World Series? Who do you think will win the NL East: Mets, Phillies or Braves? Which NL pitcher will snag the ‘08 Cy Young- will it be Webb or Peavy or Haren… or will it be someone else entirely? What club will end up with the worst record in the NL?
For the record- I totally covet Blair’s clothes.
I’m trying to decide how many waiting room windows I can open simultaneously without freezing up my computer.
I’ve got my laptop and my desktop fired up. Also, I have my therapist on speed dial, because my super-competitive side is lurking in my brain and somehow the ability to buy tickets is equivalent to “winning”.
Oh, another fun activity:
WHY ISN’T MY HEAT WORKING???? This, I am sure, will be a wonderful distraction from waiting. You know, sitting there with a hairdryer on my houseplants while screaming into the phone with my landlord and keeping one eye on the computer screen.
27 degrees. Dammit.
3 MINUTES!!!
2 MINUTES!!
I sort of forgot to go to sleep last night, so it will be interesting to see how long I can stay awake. At least my heat is working.
1 MINUTE….
alright guys, let’s go! *cue stare at computer – fast forward six hours – still staring, cartoonish-looking eyes, drool on computer*
10:00!
AND IT BEGINS!
I actually made myself make plans for tonight so there would be a cutoff point.
You know I think one reason they set it up this way is to give Sox fans the pleasure of reliving those 86 years.
With every 30 second countdown… THIS IS IT! I FEEL IT! I BELIEVE!!! And then ooohhhhh the disappointment.
i have to work this afternoon, so four hours of purgatory will be the max for me. whee!
i have AN ENTIRE POT OF COFFEE to keep myself company. 0.o
More fun: watching paint dry… or watching the VWR window reload over and over again?
Ho Hum. Let the virtual coma begin.
I got my netflix all stacked up here for entertainment.
Plus, TG—THE ENTIRE SEASON OF GOSSIP GIRL. How great is that show? It’s so delicious.
I’m playing MahJong in a smaller window while I wait.
So…how about those Tigers?
The local news anchorman s just announcing that you can buy tickets by calling or buying online at redsox.mlb.com. He’s all cheery and hopeful. I’m going to kill him.
Oh god I wish they didn’t have a refresh button…I can’t handle this…I’M WEAK.
I agree, Blair’s wardrobe is better.
I’ve got 57 windows open…because my birthday is 5/7:-P
I wish there was some type of program to install that would beep or something when the window went to a new site (but not if it refreshed)…if I knew anything about programming I would totally attempt to make that. And have it play the “Hallelujah!” chorus of Handel’s Messiah instead of just beep.
My addiction to Gossip Girl was totally unexpected. I thought it was going to be a crappy ripoff of OC (which I never got into)… and instead, it’s turned out to be one of my favorite shows on TV.
I’m watching random British TV shows on my computer while I wait.
Hey, so if this thing goes (yeah right) while I’m downstairs fiddling with the pilot light, what is the time limit on how long it will wait for me?
I just can’t stay away from campy tv shows, that’s my problem. So how are we feeling about Jenny Humphrey these days?
I would kill for a program that would play a sound when the refresh cycle ended and the ticket window loaded. I would totally nap.
And speaking of the Tigers – can you believe about Jose Canseco trying to extort Magglio Ordonez?
mine went off for the sox pax when i was down folding laundry for about 5 min so i dont know where it went off in there, but i still got in when i came up.
Thanks james– for some reason I feel the need to investigate my pilot light.
GODDAMN I’M GETTING COLD.
I have to be able to feel my fingers in order to select tickets, so maybe it would be a good use of my time.
i swear, the best part of this is me constantly telling myself that SOMEONE is being allowed to buy tickets, so why shouldn’t it be me next? oh, me and my eternal optimism. ;D
p.s. that’s me up there anonymously declaring that i have a whole pot of coffee. ;D
Sounds productive to me too. Heat is important, as well as typing the right stuff in, i was selected for yankee tickets last year and almost typed my credit card number in wrong! That would have been a disaster and a half! i’m going to do laundry, again. maybe it’ll be good luck for me! *laugh* who am i kidding?
Ok, gonna take the risk.
Will report back.
I’m superstitious enough, that I’d do laundry again if i were you James… just in case. I’m still jealous of those of you who got Sox Packs!
And jenny- I know exactly what you mean.
I can’t say I’m Jenny’s biggest fan…I miss her as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She was much cuter then.
That Canseco…how desperate can a person be for money anyway?
On that note…who read Vindicated?
*I meant Jenny Humphrey by the way…not any other real Jennys. Sorry :)
No f’n luck. Time to call the landlord. Dammit.
PS Pats fans– have you seen manningface.com? that’s what I feel like right now, those faces.
No matter how annoying Jenny can be, I wouldn’t even notice because I’ve reserved all my eyerolls this year for Julie Taylor on FNL.
I love how Dan and Jenny are supposed to be relatively un-wealthy, and yet Jenny still has almost as many fabulous outfits as Blair. Also, Dan’s ex-girlfriend BUGS. I want her to move back to Vermont or wherever she was before.
no laundry luck this time, but last time it was folding and i’m only on the washing stage now. i got a long way to go.
I KNOW! What’s her name again…Vanessa or Veronica. No it’s Vanessa. Wait I don’t know. Oh well, she’s really annoying.
Can’t say I watch FNL…is it any good?
Being unwealthy in the Upper East Side doesn’t say much anyway.
“Our circuits are busy please try your call again later-” and that’s where I chuck my phone against the wall. This is just cruel.
i feel like a mixture of drunk eli and disgruntled peyton…this whole eastern time versus central time is killing me…anyone else live in the chicago area
Do I have ADD because my posts are so oddly constructed…
Me! I live in Wrigleyville.
this should rank up there as cruel and unusual punishment..
*sigh*
awesome….i live near logan square….just moved here from new england
are you going to do this all over again for cubs tickets come feb 22?
James – start folding wet laundry. I’d do it.
Julia – FNL is my favorite show on TV, hands down. The book on which the show (and movie) was based is one of my all-time favorites as well.
If it’s possible, trying to get Cubs tickets is even more frustrating. After years and years, I have yet to get in and snag Opening Day tickets. And Cubs Opening Day is UNREAL – it’s like Mardi Gras, for baseball. It’s one big huge drunken party.
*laugh* that might actually be a decent idea now that you mention it. Its almost worth purchasing the ultimate membership just to not have to waste this entire day away to get tickets! almost….
Its so much easier to get tickets to see them in baltimore and i get so much closer. why do we subject ourselves to this again?
julia – this real life jenny took no offense! ;D
tg – loved the FNL book SO MUCH; have the 1st season of the tv show on dvd sitting right here (still unwatched – been too distracted by my world series dvds!)
48 minutes gone, 192 minutes left to spend before work! :: giddy ::
James…I say the same thing about Tampa… it’s so much easier to get tickets there… and it’s almost 80% Sox 20% Ray fan ratio. It’s almost Fenway WAY South
I really need to go to a game in Tampa. Toronto, too. I finally got to go to Yankee Stadium and Camden this year. I love getting to go to new ballparks.
Oh its more like 90% sox fans 10% O’s fans in baltimore. Its that sad i’m an O’s mini season ticket holder just to be able to purchase discounted red sox tickets and get access to the premium tickets. Sat 2 rows behind the sox dugout last year down there. That was sweet! Last year you could trade games in for all non weekend red sox games, which was really sweet, but this time you cant. so anyone want any O’s vs the Mariners tickets? :P
how about the white sox? do people even show up for opening day over there?
Has anyone been to spring training? i’m going down this year to see them play when they come visit the O’s (Free season ticket holder tickets! Boo Rah!), anyone have any advice on well anything? Need to add to my papelbon and beckett autograph collection!
I should check out FNL then.
I’m glad, Real-Life Jenny :)
Would anyone like to aid in the construction of my conspiracy theory? It basically states that the VWR is led by Al Qaeda and that they hold all of the tickets until one random moment when ONE person snags a game and then pull back and laugh as everyone goes crazy. I think I’ve already gone crazy.
I’m holding two phones up to my ear, one phone on speaker in my hand and all of my computers are doomed at the moment.
Aaah, the suffering of being a Red Sox fan.
Or Cubs fan as you were saying.
james – went to my first sox/o’s game in baltimore last april and i said “GO SOX!” to the first sox jersey-wearing fan i saw on the street, all excited-like, and then i realized EVERYONE ON THE STREET WAS WEARING A SOX JERSEY. it was pretty awesome.
Oooh I’m going to Spring Training as well this year! I’m pulling some Francona strings to make things work out (muahaha).
My best advice is bring your own water bottles. Yes that’s plural. Actually I hope they let you this year…
Oh and wear sunscreen. I don’t know where you’re from but it’s difficult for a Bostonian down there.