Nerves

Normally, I am a man of just two reactions to things that are generally expected to invoke nervousness. One, I deliberately over-compensate so that when the time comes I find it difficult to get at all excited or motivated, much like university work, for example. I know it will get done, so there is no problem. The day before the deadline, there is now a problem, but I've spent so long not worrying that a surge of work fueled by adrenalin is hard to kickstart.
Then there's the other way. Bodily I am calm, but my mind goes nineteen to the dozen. This sounds great when in interviews and exams and suchlike, but when it comes to getting to sleep it's a bit of a bugger. Generally on nights like this, which occur only very rarely, (ie in terms of years between them) I get a snatch of music or dialogue, or even a situation into my mind, and play it and replay it over and over again at a rate of knots. This isn't something I do deliberately, obviously! The situation generally isn't helped by the fact that if I want to sleep, it's difficult, and if I achieve, by some miracle, a sort of semi-restful slumber, I have terribly twisted dreams and wake feeling crap.

I'm in a mood at the moment where I may be in for a torrid night. My mind is racing, I'm not tired at all and I have to be awake and raring to go in a mere seven and a half hours. I HATE KNOWING THAT! How can you sleep under pressure? Maybe I need to fuse the two reactions to nervousness into racing mind - day of event, overly-calm - night before.
I'll give it a go.

What interview?
:-)

Plan
Five AM start. Leave house at 0545. Catch train in Shanklin at 0615, boat at 0650, train at 0720, tube at 0850ish.
Arrive early at Paddington Offices of OMD UK.
Participate in morning 'team building exercises' (team building for what, exactly? Only four of us are going to be left after the day!) and written test.
Participate with gusto in free lunch.
Wait for the moment of truth, find out if:
1) I've made it to the afternoon interviews, OR
2) I have the afternoon free to go sightseeing.

Sub-plan 1
Participate in afternoon interviews. Secretly drink OMD UK into bankruptcy through sudden loss of all coffee supplies if interview goes badly. If interview goes well, secretly drink OMD UK into slight financial crisis, easily averted, through sudden loss of all coffee supplies.
Await results.
1a) Good results
1b) Bad results

Sub-plan 1a - Be smug
Sub-plan 1b - Be not smug

Travel home.

Sub-plan 2
Do Science Museum, British Museum, V&A and London Eye within twenty minutes. Spend rest of afternoon shyly peeking into naughty shop windows in Soho.

Travel home.

That's about it...

Wish me luck. All supportive text messages gratefully recieved...