This is me

With 3 hours of sleep from the night before, I was grumpy and delirious in the morning.  I showered, wrote some quick emails, grabbed a bagel to go, and packed my bag for a full day of meetings leading up to the FlashFwd event at night.

Walt giving a thumbs to the ridiculous quantity of bagels

The apartment I stayed in ended up being 3 miles outside of downtown Austin (but I couldn’t argue with the price I was paying), so I half-consciously hopped on the bus around 8:30PM with the realization I was going to be a few minutes late.  Little did I know, I went on the wrong bus and ended up 15 minutes in the wrong direction, so I ended up getting to my 9AM meeting at 9:45.  However, the best part was that the driver told me to pay him tomorrow because I didn’t have any singles on me.  That’s some southern hospitality.

Anyways, I got to Jesse’s hotel,  had a light breakfast, and we got to business discussing the production for the night’s event.  There was certainly a lot to take care of before we headed to the venue.  Me, Jesse, Emily, Tiff, and our intern/driver (who asked us to call her Cookie), headed to Cosco’s and Office Max for food and random supplies we needed while Matt lead the on site production until we got there.

By the time I got to the venue around 3:30PM or so, I was starving and dead tired.  The boxes of pizza on the bar settled my hunger and the nap on the couches from 4:00-4:15 temporarily energized me a bit.  I was ready for the event!

Next thing you know, 5:00PM rolled around and the FlashFwd winners started rolling in one by one, so it great to formerly meet all them since I had only exchanged emails and phone calls.  Most people started coming around 6:30ish, so we didn’t get the award ceremony going until 7:30PM, but you can find out more about it in the post I wrote for SoundCtrl’s blog since there’s no sense in rewriting the same thing over again.  However, I should mention one thing though–Philly’s Chiddy Bang (who played the event) was a lot better than some friends of mine said even though hip-hop without a live band is a huge pet-peeve of mine.

After the event, I grabbed dinner, headed back to the apartment with Walt and passsssssed out!  I needed it though because, as it turned out, Day 3 got prettttty crazy.