Waiting on a ring?

No. Not that kind, the auditory variety.

A ring on the phone?
~A word on some of the internal imaga-drama that is far too likely ensue when girl sends a text message to that certain guy.~

Are you all strung out ? Is your heart fried? Do you relate to Ke$hia's  "Your love is my love is your Drug way to easily"? Well here we give you HerCampus':

100 reason why he hasn't texted you back

 "You make the decision to send him a text. You find the perfect witty excuse.  You re-write it…twice.  You spend three minutes deciding if an exclamation point is too eager.  You erase and re-enter a smiley face—too desperate? You consult with a girlfriend.  You take a deep breath.  You press ‘send.’  And then he doesn’t respond.
  There’s nothing worse than an unreciprocated text, it’s the modern-day equivalent of getting stood up (but worse, because it remains in your phone as a constant reminder of your failed flirting). ..."  (do me a favor and hold out on reading these until after you have finished reading my post:)

Even the least dramatic of girls falter when it comes to this godforsaken issue.
I doubt there is a single girl who is immune to this. I am confident that, at least once, every girl has been here:

agonizing unreasonably over why a boy did not instantaneously respond to their whimsical text. Something it'd behove us to fess-up to ourselves about, ladies!!

Let us splice in some of dialogue from the cinematic version of He's Just Not that Into You  that clearly illustrates this contrived drama:
You all thrive on it because you all love drama.

GIGI -I don't.
ALEX Really? So you don't wait until the last minute on deadlines, or on phone bills,because you love the drama of not knowing whether you'll make it? (lets be honest sex aside who doesn't get a thrill out of an adrenaline high, we can't just single out the ladies on being in the wrong in that simple regard)
 GIGI  Maybe. (she reluctantly admits knowing she's been busted, and left wondering how this dude make her fell so see through and commences agonizing over how could she so easily over look something so obvious, because oh yeah that woulda let no room for drama)
ALEX And let me guess - when you were stalking Conor that night - were you 

obsessing about him calling for days, even though the date was just kind of

mediocre?

And thus my  initial response to seeing this article was: Great! Just what the world was waiting on, MORE cockamamie conjectures exploring this contrived 'issue'! 

 OK then I actually sat down and read them, and come to find them decidedly amusing and you should probably take a peak, though I still can't in good conscious advise it, if you have sent an overly eager  text lately, and are still waiting on a response, I know boys (which ever of you have stuck with this) seems counterintuitive, but girls I know in your hearts you know better.

A case investigation of whats going through a girls mind

"but he used to* respond with so much alacrity" you think to yourself. acting all confused as to why you have yet to hear that beautiful sound your phone makes when it receives an incoming message. (you need to get a message, and fast, but it's not the one your all to desperately longing for)

Fact #1: using the word alacrity clearly demonstrates your projection of this boy is blatantly idealized.
You: nod your head.

Dr. CHASE

Fact # 2: He's  an aspiring doctor Studying Kinesiology at Columbia.
The court: -agrees with your assessment- It's impressive, & by some extrapolation "hot"  -that he's studying anatomy at a graduate level and at an Ivy, no less. But moving on, let us point out:

Fact #3: You basing these comparisons* on the past.  Presently, you are making completely erroneous  connections whereas the current conditions are highly dissimilar. Just cause you were somehow hoping to travel back in time via this text message. You back to your old tricks, doesn't magically give you a license by which to time travel. It just makes you an old dog, or perhaps more aptly, a bitch. We know you want to hold on to those times, that's permissible , however the manner in which you now cleave to your phone. Mmmn not so cute! Allow us to continue to sort out the fact before us. In effort to  humor you: lets  quickly run through some more constraints, continuing to do so in an objective manner as means to elucidate reality for you.  When you met it was summer were both in Muncie, Indiana. So when you texted him then, he was more egare to look at his phone (period). One  example of why this may have been -the prospect of meeting you for a say a hot-tub party in a couple hours was FAR more likely.   Nowadays it's colder outside. And he's just outside of a convinient travel distance (lets face it you were happy to move out of Muncie too) and  He's living in NYC -where they are millions of options if you want to go out on the town. Facts are facts and New York is THE town of all towns. So let's face it if he's bored it what he wants to be. Clearly you are not as lucky and your location can't as easily sweep you away and distract you from your sentimental thoughts nor the ghost of your romantic past.  BUT back to his condition- Let's add to that, this studious boy is taking full course load on top of that his puritan farmboy workethic has to be spread out to over the time he spends at his job to pay that old-money rate tution! Gosh he must be exhausted! Right now he's probaly fallen alseep in the library.  

Not so fast! Do you really want to start day dreaming again? Look where that got you the last time, girlie. AGAIN allow us to go over your options: Boy is in the library:  where you have to be quiet! Maybe he did fall asleep and is now snoring (ew) or perhaps he is just off being a steriotypical guy & that is -->
is the stack of books he's picked up! or even worst what if he's in the middle of doing some "hands on" studying for his lab practical. New York is isn't known for a durth of females, in fact historically the populous, esspecial ya'lls age bracket, is made up of a much higher percentage  of successful models and aspiring actress pretty faces, compaired to the rest of the country . Snapped back to reality yet? Sorry, if it bit ya! Reality is harsh,  which is why we've all been there, some immaginary haven to escape it! 

Even you Miss Independent! We know you are guilty of this too...  the last thing you want is a ball and chain and you pride your self on being low-maintence  yet you have hung your happiness upon this single thing. you have just relinquished your power to cntroll YOUR OWN happiness! do you not also pride yourself on being more intelgent than those ditsy clingy i always need a boy by my side to feel complete type of girls? yet look at you one little simple act, that let me remind you again you had complete controll of in the first place, is turning you in to a mess/ your own worst nightmare(And if your werent actaully haveing so much fun with this new self created drama you'd realize this). unbenoce to innocent them hung your happiness and good mood. was it not true you sent out this message in the first place because you were infact bored with your current conditions around you? so you admitte that  if you were preoccupied enough you wouldn't have even thought to send a witty blurb his way you wouldn't felt the need to craft  a perfect 160 charicter message his way.  or if you really can't stop this perhaps you have a future career as a lexical analyist, at least that would mean you have a life. WHAT, WHAT, WHAT are you doing?
but at the end of the day the facts remain unchanged and reality is harsh enough, no need tortoure yourself with the rediculous.

girl you got to:
let it be don't you know Vienna waits for you

As  reason 100 on their list says," it’s only been, like, twenty minutes. Calm the eff down, girl!  "  Take a deep breath you're never going find out what he has to say if you hyperventilate and accidentally asphyxiate yourself, drama-queen (yup I am  answering your dramatics with more dramatics! and let me ask you this: Does your hyperbolic reaction to this seem silly when its all in writting and no longer simply bouncing around in your pretty little head that suddenly has no more room for any other thoughts due to this  new lil crazed obsession?) 
I promise you: response or not, warm or cold, it's not the end of the world!