Everything in the literary world is  behind schedule:  that short story I submitted a year and a half ago to  Zoetrope, the literary agents that placed my manuscript in the sludge  pile after telling me they'll read my partial, one of my stories  I gave William O'Rourke to publish in the Notre Dame Review more than a  year ago, the Kenyon Review's online version of my short story "Cowboys  of the Heart:  the 6-DVD Boxset", Stand Magazine's Winter issue that  "Nimble Calligraphy" will be published in + of course, the 2 PhD programs I applied to,  none of which have responded yet.  I expect some uncertainty + delay.  Actually, a lot.  But I what I don't expect, is uncertainty + waiting across the board.
My bad.
My bad.