[gmku]

Ah. I wish I would have put it as succinctly as that! That is perfect, really. My problem with interview questions that I'm not prepared for is that they unnerve me, even if it's a relatively easy question. When I'm unnerved, I lose my poise, and I start to stammer and ramble.

Yeah, I probably blew this interview. But I'll know better next time.

These folks were on the east coast, by the way. What it made it more difficult was that it was a phone interview. Those are always difficult for me. I seem to need visual cues to gauge how I'm doing.

I think what threw me was the word "rate." I grasped for some way to rate it.