Is there a word to capture the pang of realising - as I did in the wee small hours - that one has missed a competition deadline, despite having written (and had helpfully reviewed here) an entry, well in advance?
I think there should be.
...nulliposteratosphericxstentialisturmundrangst, or somesuch?
(tears hair, strides loudly about room uttering wild-eyed oaths, flings self weeping manfully upon horsehair couch)
I shall console myself with the hoped-for success of other Eratospherians in this comp, which by form shown here seems likely.