Or when my eagerly anticipated stewed fishcake lunch had a texture I couldn't quite...swallow...swallow
Cut to the day of our Christmas party, and we are due to have our much-anticipated lunch with the astonishing 70s legend.
There, a few employees shuttled cases of food out the front door and into the rear of an orange truck, parked outside for the anticipated lunch-truck rush.
It didn't look like quite as much lunch as I had anticipated, especially when I realized we were supposed to share.
If Johnson was speaking for his craft, what, exactly, was he saying about Clemens, whose turn to pitch -- and, more important, to hit -- against the Mets at Shea Stadium Saturday is being anticipated like Yasir Arafat stepping out to lunch in Tel Aviv?
The sight of my father's or mother's script on a small white envelope was what I anticipated right until mail call, after lunch, and what kept me going for the long afternoon hours afterward.
When this interview was first set up, I anticipated a Mad Men-style four-martini lunch, followed by a tour of his old drinking haunts, perhaps only emerging in the middle of the following week.
When Sarah headed off to N.Y.U. last fall and Ms. Stabiner stayed home in Los Angeles, she anticipated rediscovering her own rhythms — taking time for lunches with friends, perhaps, or writing into the early evening.
Lunches and panels where both would appear were often eagerly anticipated for their potential for spirited exchanges.
As anticipated, Ms. Wittenberg, a corporate lawyer by training, was not one for big lunches.
At a Democratic Party lunch where he was given a standing ovation on Tuesday, "the enthusiasm was much more than I anticipated," Mr. Jeffords said.
