Jumping the gun.

Sigh.
I applied for a total dream job, and I am not eligible because my graduation date is too far in advance. This makes me sad. But as a friend pointed out (who is also a reference)... at least they didn't reject me for a personal characteristic - I couldn't change my graduation date... it's not something I did wrong.

But I'm still sad. However, their nice email explaining that I wasn't eligible did thank me for my application and tell me twice that they'd be happy to see me apply for positions in the future, nearer to graduation.

So that's ok, right? I read a nice article by an editor from Tor on a livejournal that talked about how editors have to reject so many documents, that if they say anything nice to you in your rejection letter you should absolutely take it personally. That any time someone with many people to reject takes the time to say nice things, this is special.

So I'm going to try to be happy about how they said I should reapply later twice, and not be too sad about how I won't be able to compete for that dream job...