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i also haven't picked up my JHU rejection yet. Which is kind of weird, since draft has 3 acceptances and 3 waitlists for fiction, so i don't think there is any room left for anything but a decline.

*hides five dollars in a copy of Battleborn by Watkins and slides it your way* why don't u admit my friend mr honest abe here.

it's gotta be soon! even the weekend is a possibility imo.

I'm in the same Irvine and JHU boat (but my Syracuse ship has sailed). It sounds like Irvine is still real possibility, but JHU is a 'maybe there's a waitlist spot still available' situation at this point.

grats! 3 acceptances in a row is amazing. Any word on when Naropa might let you know about funding?

jadedoptimist had the right move for this last year that got them into brown, imma bring it back for us: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ❤️ wyoming 🕯 🕯 fiction 🕯 🕯 summoning 🕯 🕯 circle 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

you must have reminded alabama to send our their rejections with this post! more are hitting.

don't give me hope, i've considered JHU a soft rejection for a week! A lot of people don't report! They've one of the oldest programs, they're definitely very competitive. Are you maybe having a bit of a Groucho Marx moment (“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”)? I'd wanna go to alabama just for the chance to work on BWR alone! Plus their option of using a 4th year to ~vibe~ is rad as heck.

Grats! flagstaff is very nice. It's near sedona, which is one of my favorite places in america.

GRATS!

rat enthusiast from the draft sheet is like thanos with the full gauntlet. holy cow!

I'm with ya, he's one of my favorites. To make it sting less, I keep reminding myself he lives in CA and probably wouldn't teach anything at Syracuse if I did get in... (plus, with his story club presence online, i can learn from him anyway)

i wrote a python script that monitors the draft spreadsheet for me. It writes out each new row to a pretty ascii table; it also moos when it does this, so i know to look. it moos because a cow moo was the first mp3 i found. it also tells me the other schools the applicant has applied to. It color codes those results with green for admit, yellow for wait, red for rejection. it's basically my emotional support cow.

The cow was going crazy so I told the cow to only look at the sheet every 10 minutes now, and only moo once if it changed (it was anxiously mooing at every line!). Maybe I can tell it to moo louder/quieter based on how many new lines appear in that 10 minute chunk. 1 line only gets a tiny meow of a moo 20 new lines gets a MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We wanted a big week, and we got a big week! (another rejection; good bye Syracuse Dreamin)