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beanside ([personal profile] beanside) wrote2023-08-27 06:20 am

Midnights become my afternoons when my depression works the graveyard shift

Switch that from depression to anxiety, and you get the idea, because I am anxious as hell. I slept some, but kept waking up every hour or so, convinced that it was time to get up, and/or I had missed the alarm. (Spoiler, I didn't) I finally gave up on trying to sleep around 3:30am and just laid there on my phone.

My test/interview is at 9 this morning. I looked up a test prep for the test I think I'm going to have to take, and most of it doesn't seem bad. Basically, it's just "Hey, this store is being robbed, do you send police, fire or ambulance." The one thing that worries me a touch is the parts like "This person is menacing someone with a gun...what color was the car in front of the house?" I don't know how well I'll do on that. The typing test moderately concerns me, because I was trained to put two spaces after a period, and that may be an issue. I can generally type about 45-50 words per minute, so that should be okay. Beyond that, I have no clue. I don't know how many people there will be in the testing.

The real trick will be, how long can I force myself to wait before I leave? It's at 9, and it's about a 25-30 minute drive. The instructions said to come at least 15 minutes early for registration, so that would be leaving by 8:15. I want to give myself extra time, so I'm thinking 7:45, but in reality, I'm probably going to be too anxious to wait that long. So, I'll probably get there super early and be sitting in my car vibrating.

I may take a little nippy nap when I get home. I've got a game tonight (fortunately not one I'm running) so I'd like to be awake for that. I have nothing else planned for the day, so I could easily do that.

Okay, time for me to go get myself together. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!
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[personal profile] epeeblade 2023-08-27 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck! I hope it goes well!
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[personal profile] colls 2023-08-27 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck!

I still mostly put 2 spaces behind a period. It's a habit! I think they should be able to accommodate Gen Xers in cases like these, right? APA didn't change its stance until 2019 (from what Google tells me).
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[personal profile] dine 2023-08-27 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope it went well, and you survived the anxiety!

wishing you a good afternoon/evening, with a nap and fun in the game