Here within for your perusal lies not much more than the excuse. I had a shot at it. The part was just about perfect for me. I coulda been somebody. I coulda been a contender.
My reading wasn't bad, mind you, I thought it was fine. But it was a fair amount of technical jargon and detail-specific dialogue and I just didn't have my arms completely around it. I felt, as the audition was progressing, that I was slipping into auto-pilot, just reciting the lines as I had memorized them, trying to get through to the end. That's not the best way to impress.
Oh yeah. The excuse. I spent the weekend in Binghamton and got up at 5am this morning to catch my two planes across the country with about a half-hour turn-around at home before having to rush back out to make the audition in time. I was out of my normal pre-audition routine to say the least. Did that affect the audition? It's hard to say, but even harder to argue that it wouldn't have some sort of detrimental effect. And so there it is. My excuse for not getting on The X-Files. Bummer, man.