Yes, the check is in the mail. This, regardless of the fact that the mean old post office lady told me no dogs allowed when I was there to mail my chapbook entry off. I took poor Nola (who was shaking terribly inside the post office with all the strangers anyway) out to the car and went back in solo to wait in line. "You really should have a no animals sign posted at the entrance," I told the mean old lady. "And really, she was not in the post office, she was *in* my arms."

Whatever.