Somehere in the Atlantic

Over the weekend I discovered email IMAP settings rather than POP3. This means that my emails are now permanently stored on a server so I can access them from anywhere - rather than them being saved on my laptop. It also means that when I get an iPhone my inbox will be the same wherever I am rather than Pop3 deleted messages from the server. I also copied all my old emails going back 4 years to the server. All was good except I somehow managed to lose 4-5 days worth of emails leading up to the weekend. It would have been more were it not for the fact that I'd backed up my laptop a week ago.


None of these people are me.

This lead me to further exploration of google's capabilities and installing the google toolbar. Very late last night my touchpad/mouse stopped working and wireless connection wouldn't start even after I rebooted. I could only blame the google toolbar and restored my system to a few days ago. This was all well and good but it meant that I was up til far too late last night. I woke at a normal time but felt too tired to contemplate a maths test and dozed for a few hours. I had no idea that it was 10.30 when I checked my phone for messages. I was still half asleep but had to get up so that I could take the online tests for a potential job. The practice tests were pretty hard so it was with a great deal of trepidation that I started the real tests. Thankfully there were further practice questions to get me used to the format and awaken my brain. The expensive hot chocolate I consumed beforehand also helped spark the synapses.

The tests themselves didn't seem as hard as the practice ones and there was no mental arithmetic test (for me to fail). I think I will have done OK on the data analysis but I'm not sure about the verbal comprehension one because there's certain ambiguities in them which you can be fooled by in a timed test situation. I expect to find out how I've done soon.

During one of the practice tests I received a call from another recruiter but I was unable to take the call and she's going to call me back. I also spoke to my friend, the recruiter, who has something I might be interested in. I haven't got a new job yet and still need to keep my options open. Even if I get the job I've interviewed for it might not pay enough for me to accept it.

As for the title of this blog, I got up so late felt as though I'd shifted timezones over night and would therefore be somewhere in the Atlantic. I except a few calls tomorrow morning so I hope my circadian rhythms aren't too unaligned with GMT.