"You tend to think it's incredibly simple staging, just two guys, but it's much more complex – probably than what we anticipated, I think it's fair to say.
Instead of the sweet white meat I had anticipated, I received an enormous, dense and tough filet that was neither sweet nor even mildly cajun-accented.
And if this were to become a higher-scoring game than anticipated, I might favour the team and the quarterback who have been here and done it before.
Having achieved top A-level marks and attended a top university, I anticipated I would walk through to the interview stage.
Finding the research harder to conduct than I had anticipated I felt a crushing loneliness – compounded by the fact that the majority of people I met were not travelling alone – in which I became the object of enquiry to myself.
When I sat down to write, though, I suddenly found myself in a position to really reflect — be outraged and sad — much more so than I anticipated I would be if I were to regain my freedom.
