Yesterday the application went live. Of course not without problems.
I woke up to the bright light of the sun in my face and birds tooting in the background. Literally, as I live in the boondocks and crashed on my living room couch. The windows were open and the A/C was off; fall has finally arrived in Florida and the parental units are tired of giving FPL money. It was hot and the breeze was coming in the strongest through that room.
I will consider this preparation for Japan.
Anyway, I do my morning thing, walk my dog, then check my email. Get message board alerts, read ’em… Oh shit, the application’s online?
Go to the online app.
Registration’s down.
What? Why? Check the official forums and apparently there’s an issue that needs to be resolved. So, as the company that’s maintaing their online app takes their sweet time, I use my old dummy account from last year to peak through. Nothing’s change except for that one new question and sections being rearranged. Log out and wait some more.
Four hours to be exact.
Application goes live around 3:30pm and I start filling shit out. Do I want early departure? Yes. Have you ever killed someone? No. Do you have any diseases? No. Fill out, click next, fill out click nex– wait, what’s this error? Can’t continue without filling out previous section? But, I already said no to that answer so why are you forcing me to say yes?
Application’s bugging out. It’s doing it for other sections as well. I circumvent it by clicking on the menu after saving but its still a pain in the ass. I manage to fill out everything and I save it. I have questions and I want answers. Unfortunately its now 12 in the morning and I won’t be receiving this answers until 12pm tomorrow.
That’s when the coordinators start posting again.
No rush, I’m still waiting on my references. I will be camping by the mail box until I get them. Now, I can finally sleep knowing this application is online and spend the weekend in O-Town catching Miyavi playing his guitar and checking out the Japan Fest the next day.
And the kicker is I don’t even give a shit about Miyavi.