Will he...? Won't he....?

Life has always been nerve racking for me. Things sort of work out in the last moment, and everything has to get down to the wire. Same was the case when I learned of my employment in a large multi-national corporation or admission into the Masters program at a prestigious US university. More recently, the suspense with respect to my so called research project has been never-ending and the professor in charge is not making things easier. No sign of any assistantship positions in the horizon either. I wonder, why can't things be a lot easier? Is it too much to ask for?