so after two hours i finally get through to harvard, and they tell me the email was a mistake and they have my application. this makes me quite happy, until they tell me that, however, they do not have my scores!!! (i sent them november 6th and i know for a certainty that at least one other school has got 'em.) "i suggest," says the woman who answered the phone, "that you call the gre folks and find out what happened." so i call the gre folks, and they insist that according to their records all my scores have been sent and there's nothing further they can do. what else could i have done but have my scores resent, and then called harvard again (it took me another thirty minutes to get through) and a different person answered the phone this time, and the moment i started explaining my scores were not there, shushed me like an overworried child and told me that if ets says they sent them she was sure they did now be good and go away and enjoy my christmas. but. i. er. but. oh. alright. yes. okay. goodbye. argh. so then i get worried and call up all the other schools to ask. i get vacation messages from two schools and one departmental administrator says they have no idea yet and to sit pretty and assume "no news is good news." and brown says that while it is our business to make sure our files are complete we were not to contact them under any circumstances to verify if this is so. (?!) *throw hands up* von says i've done all i can and there's nothing else to do so i'll just have to sit quietly and not get into a panic and to enjoy my holidays. mm hmm.