Refreshing, refreshing, refreshing

Today is one of those days at work where I'm stalled on my projects because I'm waiting for information and answers only others can give me. So I compulsively click the "Refresh" square on my Lotus Notes to see if any new messages (with answers) have arrived. None. Other days, I wait for queries I've submitted in batch to run, hitting F5 hoping the message "JOBQ" will change to "OUTQ" so I can then run more queries using the new data files. And then, after waiting, I find the information/answers/data are not exactly what I need, so I start all over again.