I’m a dumb ass. There, it has been said. I am all about honesty.
Plus when the little excerpt shows a cuss word in the links, I always get a lot of hits. I’m all about marketing, too. 🙂
But back to me, and my total and complete idiocy.
I was so proud of myself the other day.
Not mentioning any names, but there are some competitor friends of mine that were hashing out their entries for IPC in the last days and hours before the final, drop dead, late-fee-required entry deadline of midnight EST last night. I saw a variety of Facebook posts regarding last minute shoots, re-shoots, retouching and even printing and mounting.
…and I felt so smug. For once I was not stressing myself out like that. I entered almost a month ago. My poor friends, I shook my head in sympathy…
Now, before I got all self-righteous and cocky, say, a few months ago, when it was the Northeast District deadline, I was in the same exact position, probably not telling everyone about it, because I hide my flaws like that, but yeah, that was me.
A week before districts and I didn’t have jack-diddly-squat for my case. Well, OK, I had two images. One was shot last summer, one was shot the week before my state competition just weeks prior, and the other two were shot within four days of the Northeast District deadline. In fact, one was shot less than 24 hours before the deadline. Not a stellar track-record of preparedness, eh?
Every single competition finds me putzing around until the last minute, and taking advantage of every last minute of it. Hah!
So, the other day I wrote about how I was going to start a new Print Competition Timeline (LINK). I was so full of the self-satisfaction of having submitted my IPC case by the early deadline, that I developed a new calendar of competition activities to keep me ahead of the game. That was the plan.
Well, I already have an update. And that update is that I’m a damn dumb ass. Somehow the IPC deadline of 7/12 and the PPN deadline of 7/11 melded together on every single calendar and appointment app I have. It doesn’t matter that I actually wrote an article about each of these and their deadlines…
I missed the PPN deadline.
*headdesk* AND *facepalm*
There is absolutely no excuse for it, not sure how it happened and didn’t realize it until I tried to upload my entries about about 8 PM last night.
So there you have it, dumbassery at its finest. Permission to laugh.
But we’re gonna try and find the Wootness here. There’s always a lesson to be learned. I’ve learned a couple:
1. I’m not as organized as I think.
2. Calendar apps have alerts to notify you of an event prior to the actual event date. Use them.
3. Just about the time you think you’ve got it all figured out, Karma’s gonna slap the smart outta ya.