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Mark L. Pederson
06-08-2007, 02:51 PM
I find myself smiling uncontrollably these days .... I found an explanation here - 6 and 7 are officially my favorite numbers ....

Anticipation (emotion)
From Wikipedia
Anticipation or being enthusiastic, is an emotion involving pleasure (and sometimes anxiety) in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait.

Robert Plutchik listed anticipation as one of the eight basic emotions in his psychoevolutionary theory. See also hope. A name for pleasured anticipation is excitement.

Anticipation can be shown in many ways; for example, some people seem to smile uncontrollably during this period, while others seem ill or sick.