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I think when they ask me my weakness at interviews one of them is going to have to be a low tolerance to background noise. When there's just the general chat of the office going on I can put my headphones on and that’s more or less OK but I find it really hard to do anything complex without them on - my train of thought gets disrupted. I assume the reason this doesn't happen when I've got them on is because I know what to expect - I can't really work with the radio on for example but CDs work fine.

Small worries

I am having a day of small worries. I am worrying about

1. My new credit agreement. They sent me all the stuff to sign for my Egg credit card along with a reply paid envelope addressed to Boots Advantage Credit Card. So I rang them up and asked where it should be sent to and they told me. And then I put the phone down and then noticed that the credit agreement had an address printed on - which was a different one again from the one they just told me. The chap on the phone seemed rather confused by the whole thing so I decided to go with what was printed on the form but now I'm nervous about it.
2. Bank statement. I looked at my bank statement online at lunchtime and discovered 2 transactions at Tescos. Unfortunately they are both on dates I know I wasn't at Tescos. So I ring up the nice lass at Lloyds who points out to me something that actually I should know. The date on the statement is the presentation date, not the transaction date which, unfortunately, she doesn't have access to. I have vague memories of using my debit card a couple of times the week before so that I could get cash back which I can't see on the Internet banking statement (it only shows stuff after your last postal statement) which were for about that amount but I don't have them written down because I did a big rash of bill paying at around that time and just thought "Right, I can't be arsed to stick all this in, I'll just wait for it to clear and adjust my balance to the right amount on my Palm". That'll teach me to take shortcuts! It seems likely that these are genuine but I can't be quite sure enough to be comfortable.
3. Nan’s flowers. Its my Nan’s birthday today and I'm worrying because when I ordered her flowers on Saturday they professed to be not quite sure where Edgeware was, preferring to spell it with one e (the first one, in case you're wondering). I gave them a correct postcode but still... Fortunately this one will be resolved when I give her a bell before I leave the office.
4. Alex. He seemed completely bemused when I spoke to him just now and has seemed rather down all weekend. I think the whole job-hunting thing is getting to him (hardly surprising really) but the trouble is that I'm not at my best when he's down. My instincts are to give him hugs until he feels better which just ends in him feeling smothered and extra down because he's worried me. I need to work on my empathy I think - the hugging instinct comes from the fact that when I'm low I like to talk about it in detail and receive as many hugs as possible whereas Alex has a very different reaction.

As you can see, none of this is earthshaking but between them all they're bugging me just enough to mean that I can't concentrate on my actual work. So I've been to work on Google again and finally found Paul Grist's email address (note to self: look on Google groups as well as base Google when people searching) so we can send him a nice email from Caption saying "Come to Caption!" That would be cool :)

PS: don't worry sweetie - I'm not desperately worried about you or anything :)