Anxiety increasing

We're getting to a seriously high tension time now. We know the baby is supposed to be born soon. We know he's fairly large. So why hasn't he dropped? Are the "signs" we're seeing really warnings of labor or just wishful thinking?
So far, it's been wishful thinking.

Amanda has it worse. She's been off work since Monday. The first couple of days were a good, relaxing time. But Amanda is the hard-working type who likes to keep busy. After a few days of mostly laundry, dishes and working on a broken sewing machine, she's at her wit's end. She was happy today to get some questions at home from a coworker.
She's mostly at home waiting for an unknown point of time, and it's (understandably) bothering her. We tried renting some movies I don't want to see but she does want to see, but she'd not the type to sit around and watch TV during the day all that much. And she's more than a little afraid she'll start watching daytime TV, get hooked on it and not want to go back to work.

As for me, it's just waiting, waiting, waiting. As I told Amanda, she's held the baby for the past nine months, now I want to hold him for a while. But we have no idea what to expect or when.

It's just maddening.