Mixed Blessings

I’m totally cool with receiving two form rejections for two of my first five queries. It’s just that I expected to be waiting at least a month for a response: I got my first rejection within one hour (!) and another within  the next twenty-four. Yeah, I guess I should have been prepared, seeing as it is, in fact, electronic mail. But the result is me at my computer at 6:58 on a Saturday evening, three days later, compulsively refreshing my Gmail inbox. I was totally ready to not think about this stuff for a month and a half. Really!

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