Yeah. The departure time is really creeping up on me? Am I ready? Hell no. =P

I have to admit defeat - even with all the skipped nights of sleep, I have failed to complete the ADV timing before my departure. There is no way I can finish now - I do only have one more episode to go, but I can't go without sleep for much longer.

Today, woke up somewhat late as usual. I had started a vidcap before I went to bed, scheduling it for 48 minutes. I had to clip the resulting capture down because the episode turned out to only be 40 minutes long. Oops. I started another vidcap and went back to get another half-hour or so of sleep. Woke up about 7 minutes before I had to stop the vidcap, so I waited for that, then I bolted out the door to get to City Place, seeing as how at that point (4:20 pm), I was supposed to be there already. -_-

Made it there, big crowd, one of the first people I see is, surprisingly, AJ. o.O Hugs proceed, then the conversation becomes something like this:

<AJ> You never call, you never write... *pout*
<Ms. Tenicela> Yeah, you never call, you never write... *glare*

^^;

There's a token line on the machine (well, tokens, Initial D Ver.2 cards, and random other junk), but the order isn't really being followed as they are showing the reporter what they think she should see. So, I get a doubles set fairly quickly, as apparently no one else in the massive gathering had done so yet. I do mahou no tobira heavy, A oni, and CSFIL -speed- heavy... then sit down, and I dealt with hurting legs for a good 10 minutes. Yeah, I shouldn't really jump into stuff like that without properly eating, drinking, or stretching ^^;

Several people are interviewed, and later a cameraman arrived with a rather hefty-looking digital SLR to take pictures. My name was given to the reporter, but I was never interviewed or photographed (though I may appear in the background). My responses to an interview would probably be stupid, anyways =P Josh was interviewed, though, and we find we can't seem to place when he actually first played DDR. ^^;

I don't stay too long after the reporter and cameraman leave, since I still had the ADV project to do and all. I do give MAX 300 heavy double another try - and I actually fail at the last 4 or 5 steps of the mad sequence at the end - the farthest I've gotten through the song on a machine to date, but still not a pass (though I wouldn't have failed if the machine were still a MAX2). I also did Dancemania oni double for the heck of it, and actually complete Get Up 'N Move without missing anything... until the last shuffle, where I drop 3 bars all at once. ^^; Yep, from full to empty. I get a few seconds into I Believe in Miracles, but not too far having never played that on doubles before, and the pads were sticky to the point that they restricted movement. All I really wanted was to place a score on the Oni charts, anyways =P

I make it back home, shower, eat dinner, then start timing in a frenzy. Around midnight, my mom interrupts me for a good 2 or so hours to help me pack all the clothing I'm going to need. I go back to my work, and, stopping occasionally to check on IRC and get food breaks, I finish the episode. Removing the time it took to pack, I believe it took about 6 hours to make it through episode 3 - 40 minutes long, and about 360 events. Definitely much better time than it took to work on Rin Taro's nonsensical rambling.

I haven't decided what to do with episode 4 yet. I'll either burn a copy of it and take it with me to CA in the off-chance that I get that much free time to do paid work, or I'll just leave it until after my return. I do not like it at all that, despite being able to blast through episodes quickly, I still wasn't able to complete the entire project before leaving.

Well, the plan for tomorrow is, wake up in time for Patty to get here, we do something about finishing up the packing (I still need to figure out the best way to transport the PS2), check the mail and see if my check or one of my packages arrive, get dropped off at the airport, fly to CA, get picked up by my aunt, and arrive at my cousin's house (but unfortunately, she's living near campus right now so I don't get to see her right away). Nothing else is planned. I'm really hoping to be able to do something on Wednesday - ducky and raziel are arriving noon-ish then.