I wasn't being sarcastic. At all. Your last files were approved in less than an hour. We're real people sitting on this end of the approval queue. We check each and every file that gets uploaded. Scan it. View its contents. If you catch us while we're working on other projects (or at work, 'cause like you, we have other things to do, too), or eating with familiy, or sleeping, or working on another of the sites... Well, you get the picture. Sometimes we see a file in the queue as soon as it gets uploaded. Sometimes we are busy and may not notice for a little bit. If it's important that it be approved, you could always ping us in IRC. But nothing's changed between the opening of this site and now. Except, perhaps, your luck.
I am very sorry for Minion trying to grab updates when an addon is still in the queue. This does need to get fixed. I am sure you are frustrated.