A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The following were taken from real resumes and cover letters. 1. I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience. 2. I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms. 3. Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year. 4. Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave. 5. Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions. 6. Failed bar exam with relatively high grades. 7. Its best for employers that I not work with people. 8. Lets meet, so you can ooh and aah over... Sign in to see full entry.

I recently was invited to join Shelfari, which is essentially a virtual "bookshelf." You build your shelf based upon books you own or have read, and then disucss them with other members, get recommendations, etc. It's an interesting concept, but superfluous, in my opinion. But still, its a cute idea. Sign in to see full entry.

I got a phone call today from someone at HarperCollins, about a position there as a sales coordinator. For about twenty minutes after I got off the phone, I sat there thinking, huh??? I didn't remember applying to that company at any time in the recent past, and not in sales, and definitely not through contacts or any online job postings. Then I remembered that a few weeks ago I'd heard about the opening through a classmate at SPI, who passed my resume along to the person in HR. After I sent her... Sign in to see full entry.

I got there at about 7:30--slightly earlier than my classmates, but I was still fine. The apartment's in a kind of nondescript building on 61st Street. The husband works at Sloane Kettering Memorial as an oncologist; the children, 13 and 9, are at Florence Nightingale and Collegiate respectively (two of the most exclusive private schools in Manhattan; the former for girls, the latter for boys). The apartment was smaller than I had expected, but still very nice. The wife used to be an art... Sign in to see full entry.

Tonight I'm going to the last class of the writing course I've been taking this winter. I'm sad that it's ending--I enkoyed it so much. Tonight, since this is a makeup class and we can't use the classroom we normally use in Soho, we're meeting at the house of one of my classmates, who lives on the Upper East Side, in the 60s between Park and Madison. Her husband's a surgeon and she's one of those typical UES moms, I guess. It should be interesting to see what the inside of a UES apartment looks... Sign in to see full entry.