Marathon

What a day...

4:00 am - Rise. (A bit.)
4:15 am - Rise again. Get up.
4:20 am - Rise again. Again. Dress.
4:30 am - Leave house with Em and St3f.
4:35 am - Pick up Em II on the way to the cinema.
4:40 am - Arrive at cinema, get Em to buy caffeinated goodness.
5:00 am - Get excited... dammit, trailers.
5:15 am - Orange advert. Micro nap.
5:20 am - TDKR - Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
8:00 am - OMFGTHATWASBRILLIANT!*
8:01 am - Let's go to Cardiff!
8:07 am - ...why are we going to Cardiff?
10:00 am - Caffeine break. Attempt to locate TDKR soundtrack in service's WHSmith.
10:01 am - Fail to locate TDKR soundtrack.
12:15 pm - See warning about bad traffic near Bristol.
12:17 pm - Get lost attempting to find diversion into Wales.
12:45 pm - Find Wales.
13:30 pm - Find lunch. Nom. Still no TDKR soundtrack.
14:30 pm - Arrive in Cardiff. Everyone sleeps in car. Unconsciousness.
15:00 pm - At Millenium Centre somehow, drinking more caffeine!
15:30 pm - Bus into Cardiff - 2.5 hours to PhotoMarathon Exhibition opening!
16:00 pm - In Cardiff. Begin search for HMV or other source of TDKR soundtrack.
16:15 pm - Distracted by LEGO store.
16:30 pm - Lost.
16:34 pm - HMV LOCATED!
16:37 pm - TDKR SOUNDTRACK LOCATED!
16:40:17 pm - TDKR SOUNDTRACK OWNED!
16:40:18 pm - HAPPY DAVE!**
17:00 pm - To StarBucks, for caffeine (teas all round).
17:30 pm - Being the fun of multiplaying gaming on Stef's iPad.
17:50 pm - Oh yeah, the exhibition!
18:00 pm - The Exhibition Opens!
18:04 pm - Find Stef's photos.No stickers. Gutted for Stef.
18:05 pm - Find Em's photos. Two stickers. Happy for Em. Feeling bit of pressure.
18:07:30 pm - Divert to Owen's photos to avoid mine.
18:07:35 pm - No stickers for Owen. Internally whimpering.
18:08:15 pm - My photos.
18:08:17 pm - ...STICKER!***
18:08:19 pm - Eeeeeeeeee! Celebrate! (Both the moment and the shortlisted photo.)
18:08:25 pm - HAPPY DAVE 2: STILL HAPPY DAVE!
18:08:30 pm - Avoid slap from Stef. Stop cavorting.
18:35 pm - Address from Mat, runner of the PhotoMarathon, the winners are revealed.
18:36 pm - Polite applause for winner of category I made it into.
18:37 pm - Slightly heartier applause for everyone else onward...
19:00 pm - ...let's go to Cambridge!
19:20 pm - WHERE THE $(^"*(& IS THE BUS?
19:21 pm - Oh..."NF" means "Not Friday"...
19:35 pm - One taxi ride later, underway!
19:36 pm - Axis of Awesome playing on the car stereo. Picking at TDKR wrapping.
19:52 pm - AoA ejected and flung energetically aside. TDKR in stereo. Already grinning.
19:53 pm - Em asleep.
20:43 pm - TDKR soundtrack ends. Dave hyper.****
22:00 pm - 1.5 hours from Cambridge. BK break. Only 2nd junk meal this year!
22:30 pm - Back underway, Cambers by midnight looking good.
23:30 pm - Half an hour to go - woooooooooooooowtfisthat?
23:31 pm - WTF? OMFG WHO SHUTS A JUNCTION?!
23:35 pm - Trundling toward St. Neots, slow lorries and single lanes. HELL.
23:45 pm - No more midnight.
00:01 am - DAMMIT!
00:30 am - Em back home. Walks straight in door. Nocturnal housemate (also, Minion!)
00:50 am - Back home. Upstairs. Sleep.

*Review to come later, probably after Tuesday's viewing when Mark finally gets to see it. Must avoid spoilers before then!
**Apart from Muse (6 albums) the most I otherwise own belong to soundtrack composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, etc. - if you've not gathered it from all the clips in the past week, I bloody love 'em :-D
*** A sticker on your photo means it was considered for a category prize. I am dead chuffed. See me. Chuffed.
****Yes, oddly I got more hyper the longer I was awake. I blame NaNo for years of final day madness.

In other news I am, unsurprisingly, rather behind on Blipping at the moment - I'll be catching up with everyone soon though!