Counting "time"

There is a lot of waiting involved in the evolutionary process. Genetically, the women in my family have never been predisposed to "waiting." I have made a concerted effort to change that in myself, but the effort is sometimes overwhelming. The alternative choice to standing around watching a kettle of water start to boil, is to make use of the time for something else. That is my method of coping............peel a potato, sew on a button, read a book, sing a song...........anything that keeps me from counting the seconds as they go by.