You can order your GCMS online if you are curious. Search this forum, many threads explain the new online and easy application.
With regards to processing time, it's not necessarily "Finish Aug -> Start Sept". They might have had a higher load in Aug, certain applications need more work, more verification, more correspondence, etc.
I know its nerve-racking, I am mid-september applicant! Got impatient when I saw someone from October for MR! I think we just need some patience! Each file is different and hence takes different processing time!
thanks for encourage at this time.... my lawyer said that he would call cic to find out today....hopefully there are something good coming !!!!! i am so worried.... as my company is really small... and it is hirng by another company to do management work.... so i am worried CIC think it is a shell company for immigrants' need...