Anticipation Horizon

I like making plans. As early as December I began planning my summer for after I finished my master's thesis and before I started work in September. I was very excited about all of my plans. My summer was going to go like this:

1. Finish my thesis
2. Relax in Cambridge for a month
3. Spend a week in LA
4. Go to Hawaii for a friend's sister's wedding
5. Spend a week in Seattle
6. Spend another few days in LA
7. Find an apartment in San Francisco while staying with my roommate's parents
8. Go to Burning Man
9. Move in
10. Start work

And that's basically what happened! I got to spend an extra few days in LA before Burning Man after finding our wonderful apartment, and I'm here again for a week because our lease doesn't start until the 15th.

It is intensely satisfying to me when my plans work out basically exactly as I plan. I get excited making the plans, sharing and anticipating the plans, and reveling in their execution when the time comes. It makes me feel in control.

So what was I going to say about "anticipation horizon?" Mostly just that it's a phrase that I like. It means to me the point in time beyond which I do not have strong emotions/predictions/feelings about what will happen. I may know approximately what is going to occur, but it does not actively occupy my thoughts, so I have few thoughts or feelings about it. For example, before Burning Man I couldn't think much about starting work. Now is the time!