Doldrums

Is the title the correct word for the time between when the winds blow? I'm waiting to hear about a couple of different opportunities right now, and it just seems like nothing at all is happening. Grr. I don't like that. In this day and age when communication is so instant and easy, why does it still take as long as it used to, for people to respond, as long as it did when we used the rotary dial telephones?

I'm an impatient man. Learning, but impatient.