Dear SXSWi: Thanks for the faint hope

This Friday email made my weekend:

On Monday, October 15, we announced approximately 450 accepted sessions via the SXSW website (http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/programming). Unfortunately, your proposal was not part of this announcement.

That said, we like your proposal a lot, it is one of about 200 proposals that we are still considering. However, at this point, we have a limited number of open speaking slots for the 2013 event, so this last round of decision-making is very difficult.

Slim chance ahoy! Thanks to everyone who voted for my proposal!