It's been a bit from my last post. But I've got an excuse called event review and placement for over 4500 events. I know I might sound like a broken record, but it's insane that actual event placement is already done for almost all events. It may not seem that awesome on the outside but it puts me months ahead of the ball...

Anyway, it's been a long night. Bear with me. My dinner was a Butterfinger ice cream bar, a box of nasty-tasting "citrus twist" tic-tacs and a bottle of apple juice. Oh, and some Smartfood popcorn.

Why am I still here? Well there's this little thing called "event registration" happening on Sunday. Maybe you've heard of it. Even though the "final" event catalog was released late on Wednesday there was still plenty to do: there were last-minute submission to go through (like stuff from WizKids), events that had been returned for correction, and generally lots of little bits here and there that needed to be patched up. Events that had slipped through the cracks and hadn't been made active yet. I think I've taken care of most of them and I've urged EOs/GMs to take another look at their events and make sure everything is in order.

The event catalog is effectively "complete." I say effectively because stuff is going to be added right up until the last minute, I'm sure, and because there are some large gaps from companies that have not submitted their events to me for review - but it's got everything that came in before the deadline and it's about as "final" as it's going to get before event submission goes live. If it's not in the list now, then it wasn't submitted and I just won't have time to process anything else that comes in at this point.

At this point it's starting to almost feel like the night before Christmas. Except I've got another whole day to wait.And my presents will all be phone calls from frustrated attendees who run into some problem during registration.

I also went through and added GM badges for everyone who submitted badge requests forms so that they could go buy tickets on Sunday. That was nice and smooth. I think people might actually get it this year.

I even managed to put up the tentative Wednesday events. I had been planning on dealing with those after event registration when I could confirm specific locations, but people wanted 'em up earlier and most of them were pretty much good to go. We'll still need to have another post explaining/promoting that someone soon.

There is such a huge weight off my shoulders now that this is done. I can actually go back to doing anything other than event review/placement. You know, like the rest of my job. My pet projects of anime, film and video games need some attention.

But for now, I think it's time to head home and try to relax a bit tomorrow (except I think I'm spending much of it helping a friend move...). Man, it's so cold in this office at night...