6 done, 5 to go.

It's been six weeks since I was put onto the not-quite-waitlist. There's five weeks until the end of August, which is when we've been told we'll hear by, so at least we're over the half way point.

Most days I manage to only think about it briefly (but yes, I do think about it every day. How can I not?), but last night I dreamt* that Yummy Jobs emailed us with our dates, in one big long document with everyone's names and dates in, so that I had to Ctrl+F to find my name (yes, I used Ctrl+F in my dream. I am so cool). And instead of feeling excited, I felt a bit deflated, because I'd waited so long just to be lumped in with everyone else, and didn't even get a personalised email. I've been imagining the moment when I get the email - having my heart jump into my mouth when I see the subject line, holding my breath as I read the email, then going crazy with joy when I read my date - and because it didn't make me feel like doing that, I didn't even tell anyone. Yeah, I don't know, I have really vivid dreams. I just hope that it doesn't actually happen like that.

I couldn't resist checking my email with a feeling of hope this morning, but of course, there was no email. Oh well, a girl can dream.

*Chrome's spell check is implying 'dreamt' isn't a real word. What rubbish.

Not quite waiting.

A couple of days after my last post, Yummy Jobs clarified to all of the people in the same boat as me that we're not actually waitlisted - since they're recruiting for the whole of 2012, they simply don't know all of the dates that they'll need people to go out there yet. They've only assigned 40-50% of the places for the year at the moment, so there's still plenty of dates that we could be assigned. Which is excellent news!

Even better news (although maybe notsomuch for those who were hoping to apply in the summer round of applications) is that the next round of applications don't open until January next year. With only 40-50% of the places for 2012 assigned, and no new applicants being taken on until next year, it means that all of us in not-quite-waitlist-limbo stand a damn good chance of being given a start date for sometime in 2012.

With all my finishing university and moving from Brighton and moving to Southampton and looking for a job, I've got plenty going on at the moment to take my mind off things. Let's hope it continues that way and August will be upon me before I know it!