Chops' Law

A new physical law: the amount of email that you don't want and that requires significant work to read through is directly proportional to the degree to which you desire to receive other email. The latter email will not be received. Someone from BU's School of Theology said she'd get back to me today re. a speaking engagement; no such luck. There are a few other emails in the same vein that I need in a bad way, and none of them are materializing either. Nor, according to Columbia University, are my GRE scores or a recommendation letter from Professor Andrew Sum.

Why does everything in my life require input from a half dozen sources and output to two dozen?