well, I have two more applications out now. (the job skills I've developed over the last few years are kind of specialized, so there's not a huge number of local job openings for the exact thing I do, but there's also not a ton of competition. if I start getting to where I'll take any nursing job, the numbers will look different on both sides.)
one is to a Big Company You Have Heard Of and the other is a government job, so that means they may get more applicants and move more slowly, but they're also maybe more PR/legal conscious as far as doing employment discrimination. hopefully. at any rate I needed to keep myself moving forward.
