I'm all weirded out here.
Does anyone else find that when an agent or assistant thanks you for sending your manuscript it's always a rejection? Well... not always apparently. I'd written this one off, because the agents all had very vague want lists on the agency website, but there seemed to be some potential, so I sent it addressed to the office assistant with a note to please direct it to the most appropriate agent. I didn't hear back for a month, so I gave up on it.
Now they want a full, and the first chapter was attached to the original query, so it's not a blind full like some agents do.
This is the first time I've had a request on this one when I'd submitted some material with the query (the others were all asking for partials based on query only).
Maybe it doesn't suck after all.