Eager

I just looked up the meaning of 'eager'. And it reminded me of a friend (who's now married) telling me a number of years ago he thought I was like a beaver. I said thanks sarcastically, assuming he was saying I had two big front buck teeth. But he said it was more the way the eager beaver goes about life and busies itself.

In the Encarta World English Dictionary, eager is defined as:

1. enthusiastic and excited about something and impatiently waiting to do or get it

2. expressing enthusiastic interest and expectation or an impatient desire to do something

Sounds about right really. :( I wish I wasn't so much like a beaver!