Can it be nap time now?

Is the new Brawny man cheating on the old Brawny man? Cuz I thought their love was so pure.

Bathroom is clean. Study is clean. I am going to sign off now so that I can find someone to cry on the phone with while I try to tackle the kitchen in the near dark. My cellphone refuses to get a signal in my apartment.

"Hi, hon. Please throw out the garbage and fix the lights."

Make it worth his while. wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Aw, have a good cry. Then a lovely evening. {{{sj}}}

So, on June 28, I sent the Connecticut place my writing exercises, and they said they'd get back to me in 1-2 weeks.

It's been two weeks, so I was waiting for some sort of response. As none came, I called and left a message to the effect that as it had been two weeks, I was just wondering about my status.

Promptly, as usual, I got an e-mail response:

Thank you for your voicemail message of today, July 12. On June 28, I emailed the following communication to you.

The communication being the one informing me I would hear back in 1-2 weeks. It's been two weeks. Gah.

sj, I hope you get to feeling better soon. The achy thing sucks.

Yay for Annabelle!

Boo on my boss for telling graphic horror stories during training. Developmentally disabled people are vulnerable to so many terrible things. We all know this. Those of us who work in that field know it better than most. But the details we usually keep in the back of our minds. Bossman brought them all to the front of my mind today. I tried to take a little nap before Dan gets home from work, but every thing bossman said keeps popping into my mind's eye every time I close my eyes.

He'd probably be glad. He told those stories for good reason.

I'm sitting here with a glass of wine. Traditional self-medication.

ETA: P-C, sorry I have no useful insight. I'd be torn between letting it go another week, or emailing back to say "Per your email of June 28, I expected to hear from you by now.... blahblahjobsearchwordsblah." But really, I'd say give it a week then email back to touch bases with her. Job hunting, as a recreational activity, sucks. But you are gonna find the right thing, and be brilliant at it.

The communication being the one informing me I would hear back in 1-2 weeks. It's been two weeks. Gah.

Annoying as it is, you want to give them a little longer than they say it's going to take--it's one of the parts of the job search where you err on the side of being patient.

It's the same with publishing, FWIW. Someday when you're sending your book proposal to an editor or agent who says they respond to queries in 4-6 weeks, you give them AT LEAST two months before you check on the status of your query. That's just how it's done. You can be a little pushier with a job search, though--give them an extra week rather than an extra month.

And thanks for the yays for Annabel!

You know, I just remembered. My parents thought I wasn't talking, though I seemed pretty intelligent, and thought they were doing something wrong since I was an only child and wasn't getting any input from anyone but them. Then one day (I can't remember how old- old enough that they thought I should be at least trying to make words), we went to visit some of dad's friends who had just gotten a dog, and clear as day I pointed to it and said "Bubbie!" (which is incidentally what I call Oz when I'm babytalking him. I guess old habits never die.)

Do they sweeten the pot for the players in any other way, do you know?

No. There have been various demands that players be paid a stipend, to give them some "walking around money" since they really can't work a job and go to school and do sports. The NCAA and the schools have always opposed this, I suspect at least in part because paying the students in that fashion cuold result in them being viewed as "employees" -- which would, for example, require the school to pay the student workers compensation benefits if the student is injured playing sports.