Almost two weeks ago, she entered this Wimbledon in much the same state, still waiting for everything to click into place, including her serve, backhand and motivation.
But I really much prefer it being on-the-spot feedback, as opposed to just waiting for everything to build up and then you have the big blow-out.
"It's all developed now, and we're just waiting for everything to come on, and now they want to take it from us," said Richard and Ryan Elliot's father, Richard Sr ."This is just a lovely place to live," he said.
Speaking of Gary Neville, news reaches me that he has pretty much completed his Uefa Pro Licence, the final qualification needed to become a Premier League manager, and is waiting for everything to be ticked off.
It was 7 30 a.m., and 1,000 Mexicans, many of them recent immigrants, jammed the gritty sidewalks outside the Mexican Consulate here recently, waiting for everything from medical examinations for the sick to legal help for the imprisoned.
Self-sufficient or not, many walk-up residents say that they must get used to the new reality of watching the center of gravity of their daily activities shift skyward, and waiting for everything, and everyone, to come to them.
