I wasn't going to enter the Nicholl competition this year. I hadn't been focused about doing a polish on the script I'd thought I'd submit and I didn't feel like I had the time to do it justice. I went out to a movie on Saturday night and put the whole thing behind me.
However...
When I went online Sunday, I read that the application site had undergone some major outages the night before and that the submission deadline had been extended.
The regret I'd been suppressing won out. I took a look at my last draft and found it tighter than I'd remembered. I made the additional changes I'd wanted to make, read the script through again and made the PDF.
The extended deadline was 3 PM Eastern time. As I uploaded the script, I saw the clock on my computer switch from 2:59 to 3:00.
I would have felt bad over the next year if I hadn't gotten one in there, but I think next time I'll shoot for the early deadline.