10 - 12 days

I got a check! Just in time, too. I almost cried when I saw the envelope. I'm still wary. We'll see if I get another one. Still, after what, 70 days? It was a needed break.

What I ended up doing was writing the EDD again, asking why I hadn't received a call and where was my check. This got a single sentence reply: A check has been authorized, please wait 10 - 12 days for it to arrive.

Great, another 10 - 12 days. Seriously, those delays are what really almost killed me. You measure out your time, you budget, you make god-awful amounts of bean soup, and you think; "well, I can do this for ten to twelve days". Only they pass and nothing happens. The EDD doesn't keep their end of the deal, so you have to email them again. That's a 2 - 4 day delay as they answer the email, and the reply is inevitably to expect some sort of resolution. In 10 - 12 days. 

So the bean soup goes back on the stove, and you start measuring off time by multiplying the least amount you can live on by what you have left, and just hope to god the answer is longer than 10 - 12 days. 

I don't think I'll ever be able to use that as a measure of time again. It has such pleasant potential. Like a vacation, like; "So buddy, how long will you be in Hawaii?" "Oh you know, 10 - 12 days I think. We want to really see the islands". 

Not anymore. Now 10 - 12 days is the promise of an EDD stuck in a Groundhog day loop while the rest of us go on and on and on waiting for them to finish whatever office hocus pocus they need to complete to get your check to you.