Brain:1 Sleep:0

I can never sleep at night when I'm scheduled to take an early morning cross-country flight. We're talking early-early: often 3 AM, but still I would like those 4-5 hours if I could get them. But no, I toss all night, my brain convinced I will sleep through that alarm otherwise.

So it was last night, although this time the cause was my early morning interview today. Somehow my brain saw through my outward calm, perceived that with three days left we had reached the football equivalent of the last play "Hail Mary" desperation pass, and figured therefore a night of weird analysis was called for. (Never mind a good night's sleep might actually improve performance in an interview.) One factoid that cost me some sleep: remember to bring my Bank laptop back to work so I could turn it in Friday, my last day. This kept repeating ad nauseam - finally I got up during the night and carried the laptop from our bedroom to place it next my things so it would be impossible to forget. At least the brain then moved on to something else.

But I was OK during my 8:30 interview with A. K., the Jacksonville manager for the position. Thank God for adrenaline. Actually it went very well. I had been worried the position would be unchallenging. But it will involve building a reporting dashboard for senior IT management, and may even involve some Web work if I'm lucky.

The next step will be an interview with her boss tomorrow. Hopefully the sleep gods will cooperate for that one tonight.

Meanwhile, the infamous "Rick position" (here-today-gone-tomorrow-here-again-today) suffered another setback. As you'll recall, the position was reorganized under a new manager and was to be staffed by a developer and a DBA. I was called today by the new manager, who said he'd love to work with me on finding something. One problem: he had no openings. He had inherited the new applications, but no openings to go with them! (Can you say "outsourced"?)

So that other interview is pretty important tomorrow. Just don't tell my brain.

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