First exercise

The exercise was to write two short paragraphs, one containing one fact and three fictions, the other one fiction and three facts:

1.
Horrors, my first job interview in twenty-one years! Wracked with nerves for days in advance, I debated about what to wear and how to present myself. Anxious not to look my age I spent money I didn't have writhing with misery in the hairdressers while my grey hair returned to the blonde of my youth. Now, successful in my deceptions, I am asking myself, do I really want to be a shop assistant?

2.
Last night, sleepless again, I went through the usual rituals: trying to turn my thoughts way from the distracting yammering, fetching a drink, listening to several chapters of Persuasion, turning the pillow for a fresh cool spot. Each time I dozed, I woke again. Finally, despairing, I got up and went outside to listen to the night.