Well, almost. I still have one packet to mail out. I tried to submit it via e-mail, but was told that electronic submissions were not being accepted. Still, the packet is made up, addressed, and stamped. So you can stick a fork in me.
Of course, now the hard part is here: the waiting. Even if departments start looking at the packets before Thanksgiving (and not all of them do), it seems like the earliest I could expect a call or e-mail to schedule an interview in Atlanta would be around the second week in December. That means I have almost a month to wait and hope and worry. That doesn't seem like a lot of fun.
As for the application process, I didn't like physically mailing out packets, mainly because I felt I was sending them into the void. There's no response of "Hey, thanks, we got your packet." I may have to call a few places next week and ask if they received it, just to be on the safe side. The e-mail applications were my favorite. Not only were they the easiest (although econjobmarket.org was pretty easy too), but they often e-mailed back and said thanks for applying, we got your stuff. Very nice.
I still have a bit of (minor) work I would like to do on my paper before my interviews and any flyouts. Also, I need to work on my job paper talk. I had a sort of pre-interview with the Federal Reserve Board last week and I found myself jumping around too much in explaining my work. I'll have to write something down and practice a bit so it's a little more understandable.
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