Things look especially tough for nursing students; less than one minute after the lines opened 19 students were already queuing for a place.
This is heartening for a new reason: this time the massive security operation was manned exclusively by Afghan forces.Before the polls opened at 7am, eager voters were already queuing outside polling centres in cities across the country.
Along the roadsides I had observed other farmers laying nets in readiness, and fortunately not 30km from Clive's farm I had also discovered a mill, Moulin Loube, which was ready to start pressing the following day; farmers were already queuing to turn their early-season fruits into oil.
By 04:00 - two hours before the polls opened - thousands of people were already queuing.
The bully's choice of time and place to beat up on me was coincident with the imminent departure of the end-of-school-day base-bound school bus, so most of my fellow military brats were already queued up or on the bus, more anxious to go home than to get involved in a few seconds of fighting.
Word soon reached us that the show was nearly sold out and local heads were already queuing up, so with Charlie and Zev setting things up downstairs, Tanner got the upstairs (Spektrum) warmed up with tracks including Wolf + Lamb's latest signings Life On Planets, a duo from Baltimore.
I arrive at a basketball arena – Blunt fans are already queueing up outside – and am ushered into his dressing room.
Foreign oil bosses are already queueing up, chequebooks in hand.Sensitivities about OPEC are one reason why some people doubt that the Saudis will, say, double output to gobble up a 25% share within a few years.
That said, I imagine my agent is already queueing up to make sure that Caroline Ridding takes a good look at the "real reads for real women" I and her other authors can be packaged into.
We've made an early start, but tourists are already queuing outside.
