And I've gotten a few more emails from places where I applied telling me that they can't consider my application complete until they receive the recommendations.

Can you forward them to him?

You know, each one with a note, "Just checking with you on the status of my letter. ______ is still waiting for it."

Does the dude have a secretary or assistant?

smonster (and anyone else in her general line of work), do you know anything about the Global Reporting Initiative [link] ? How is it perceived among people who work in your field?

I don't know if he even reads what I do send him. There have been plenty of times when I've been in his office and he opened his email to print out something I'd sent him a few days ago, and I saw that the subject was still highlighted like he hadn't even opened it yet. I don't think that piling on more emails will do much of anything.

I subluxate every two minutes and end up in a little heap of pain on the bed at the end of the day.

Dude. That sucks. And why does no one TELL US THIS STUFF when we hit puberty? B/c it's an issue even for people with normal joints and I didn't find out until I was 25 or so.

I don't know if he even reads what I do send him. There have been plenty of times when I've been in his office and he opened his email to print out something I'd sent him a few days ago, and I saw that the subject was still highlighted like he hadn't even opened it yet. I don't think that piling on more emails will do much of anything.

Not that I really think it will help, b/c he's proven himself to be an unprofessional asshole of the highest order, but is his office open when he's not there? I'm a fan of putting important items in peoples chairs, though of course he could just disappear them into one of the many piles of paper I assume his desk endures.

I don't know if he even reads what I do send him. There have been plenty of times when I've been in his office and he opened his email to print out something I'd sent him a few days ago, and I saw that the subject was still highlighted like he hadn't even opened it yet. I don't think that piling on more emails will do much of anything.

Maybe not directly, but it might help you if you ever needed to prove to a potential employer that the problem was on his end and not yours. (Document, document, document!)

Dear Bitches with young girls, I need some book recs. My BFF's daughter only sits still when she's reading, and fortunately she loves to read. She's 12 or 13, can't remember, and is into young-adult paranormal romance (like, alas, Twilight) and mysteries (she's read Cleo Coyle, and I don't know who that is). She also has read Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code and enjoyed those. She has all the Stephanie Meyers books, and something called Generation Dead.

Does anyone have any recommendations of books she might like?

Madeline L'Engle's books. The Wrinkle in Time series and the Austins.

I am trying again:

Smonster, (and anyone else in her general line of work), do you know anything about the Global Reporting Initiative [link] ? How is it perceived among people who work in your field?

Zen, Melissa Marr's series, beginning with Wicked Lovely, or Libba Bray's, beginning with A Great and Terrible Beauty. There are also a couple of Alice Hoffman books out there for the YA market.