A busy schedule

Things always seem to come along all at once, rather than patiently taking turns. I've complained about this before, but the universe hasn't reconfigured itself to suit my preferences yet.

So I'm going to London tomorrow in my latest chapter of celebrity status as a mind sports competitor - I won't give any more detail than that, since I haven't asked the people organising it if it's okay, and I'm perhaps more cautious about that kind of thing in my old age than I used to be. Indeed, it's just occurred to me as I write this that they asked me for links to my social media accounts and I said my only presence on social media is my facebook. In fact, this blog probably counts too, doesn't it? I suppose it doesn't really come to mind when you say 'social media', and indeed there's not so much of a social side of things since it's basically just me shouting into the void that is the internet. Does anybody actually read this? Post a reply if you read it! But it is the kind of thing a TV person might want to check to see if I'm in the habit of publicly saying things that would cause a media frenzy. I'll tell them about it tomorrow.

And anyway, I really don't ever cause a media frenzy. Except maybe that time with the chimpanzee, and even that was kind of low-key frenzy.

And then a week tomorrow I'm starting a new job. Or actually, I'm having induction sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings next week, even though I won't have officially started the job then. Which makes it okay that on Wednesday I'm having an interview for a different job, which was arranged fractionally before I accepted the job I'm actually starting. It's very poor form to have a job interview in your first week at a new place, but I don't think there are any rules about having one the week before you really officially start somewhere.

I need the practice at job interviews, you see - I'm awful at them. I never get jobs based on an interview (this new one, like the one before, was I think mainly a result of having worked with someone at the new place before now) and I need to get good at them. I need to practice not replying to "Why do you want to work for us?" with "Well, I don't, really." And replying to "Can you give us an example of when you did x, y and z?" with "Must I? I don't remember things like that, I just do my job..."

So this interview on Wednesday will be a good no-pressure way to practice interview technique, without worrying that I'll be jobless and penniless if I don't get it. And it's a good job of the kind I'd really quite like to get, so maybe I'll end up with the luxury of being able to choose between two jobs! Although if either company are among the hypothetical people who do read this blog, that would be a bit embarrassing - maybe I could avoid this kind of complication by not telling the internet all about me, but where's the fun in that?