For those waiting the current time of 7+ months for Economy submissions, I thought it would be constructive for us to come up with a few things folks can do while they wait.
I'll make the first contribution. You could walk from Los Angeles to New York City. If you walked a reasonable 3 miles per hour and 10 hours a day, you can make the trip in roughly 93 days. Given this data, you'll have time to talk from LA to NY, then back to LA and probably make it back to Denver on the trip back to NY.
If you live in Denver, this could be extremely convenient as you'd get home around the time your submission got there.