Wednesday January 14th, 2009

The exercise:

Today's prompt: new tricks.

Mine:

I received a call from the temp agency I'm with this morning for a possible assignment which starts on Monday and goes until the end of March. Things have been pretty slow since before Christmas so I was glad to hear from them.

Unfortunately the position isn't exactly ideal - in fact if I didn't need the money I'd probably have passed on it. But I said I was interested and they passed on my resume and now they want me to come in for an interview tomorrow morning.

Which I'd be totally excited about if it didn't mean I have to teach myself a couple of rather complicated Excel functions before then.

I've been out of school for a few years now, so my brain isn't used to this last minute studying thing. I think I've got a basic grasp on one function and a pretty good understanding of the other so I'll just have to wing the rest. I'm hoping the position doesn't require as much knowledge as was initially implied - you can only bluff your way through so much.

But then again, I'm a writer - making stuff up is what I do every day.

I'll let you know how it goes.