Sign of impending mental collapse #3715

For some reason, I have the urge to embarrass myself on national TV.

I mentioned in a previous post the Japanese TV series のど自慢 (nodo jiman, something like "throat pride"(?!)), which is a weekly amateur singing contest that's produced in a different city or town every week. Well, they're swinging back through Tottori in a couple months, and I sent off my application postcard last Thursday.

However, there's a fair chance that I didn't send it off in time. The show's website (which is in Japanese, so I won't link it) stated that the application deadline was Friday, August 3rd. I (naturally) assumed that this meant that postcards had to be postmarked by Friday, 8/3. Not so, apparently; my boss (who had volunteered to write up the application for me) said that the postcard had to arrive at the NHK studios by Friday. In my defense, I asked her to help me with this two weeks ago, but for some reason she had assumed that the due date was the 9th.

So, last Thursday night my boss and I filled out the application as fast as we could, and then I had to run it over to the post office, where we had missed the last mailbox collection...but I was able to get it in at the after-hours assistance window.

I'll know one way or another in a couple weeks.

Man, what am I thinking?

R