Insomnia

Today has not been a good start to the working week.
I came into work today having not had a shower, nor slept.

Despite what you might think, I actually went to bed at a very sensible time last night. I hadn't slept in too long yesterday, had been marching around town during the day, and had been to the pub in the evening - so I thought I should be able to get a relatively early night, and be up in time for work today.

I hate my mind.

With the knowledge that I needed to wake up several hours earlier than usual, my mind refused to let me sleep, no matter how tired I became throughout the night.
By the time morning came around, I was too fucked off to actually get out of bed when my alarm went off, but once I dragged myself out, I received a lovely Cold Water Shower Surprise! as the gas meter had run out of credit sometime earlier that morning - and Tom had taken the gas prepay card with him to work to get more credit, but without successfully activating the emergency credit (which requires the card).

Turned up late for work looking very disheveled and grumpy. Luckily it seems like hardly anyone else is in at work today either, so I've taken a shower here, and I'll see if I can find an empty meeting room to try and catch some sleep in later, before the phone interview with Google... 'cos that's gonna go really well with me in this state of mind.

Grr.

Google phone interview

Well, half an hour had gone by since the allocated time, and they still hadn't called, so I dropped them an email, politely enquiring as to what was going on.. A mere few minutes they called up and apologised. heh.
The interview was shorter than I expected, and once again, I feel like I did badly at a phone interview.
They ask me to write code, only over the phone.. My mind sooo doesn't like doing that. I *need* to write it down, see it as it goes along..

I did alright at the programming aspect in the end though.. it was really quite simple. But then they asked me a bunch of questions about expressing program run time orders, which I botched horribly.. I know the stuff that the notation *means* in practice, but it's been a looong time since uni and I don't remember how to express it properly. Gah.

Then there were some questions on basic UNIX programming principles, processes, etc. which I breezed through.



and the annoying thing is.. I've now drunk lots of coffee, and am Awake again. *sigh*