My submission is not flowing through anywhere near as fast as my last ones this past Fall.

My guess is that October and November are slow periods for NGC, and January is a peak period. I've only belonged to the Collector's Society for a year, so I have no real experience to base that assumption on, but that's the impression I'm getting, because NGC sure does seem SLLLOOOWWWWWW right now...............

I'm sure that they are still within their published estimates and don't fault them at all. I just get really antsy waiting for my grades and the status on my submission hasn't moved a bit in 4 days. Sigh.... Oh well, guess I'll just keep dinging the site looking for an update... :-)