April 2009
We're really cool.
Brandon and I just played Rock Band 2 for about an hour and a half. He plays drums, I play guitar.
We are the coolest married people ever.
(We also sing along to “Livin’ on a Prayer.” While playing.)
Advice for potential interns continued.
kiamatthews:
jackieheartsb:
DO NOT send me your resume in .docx format or I will most CERTAINLY delete it without even reading it.
Why is this?
Because it’s Windows Vista.
And Vista sucks!
Save it as .doc!
While I do agree that documents should be saved down (.doc), .docx is not Windows Vista, it’s Office 2007 (2008 for Macs).
/Public Service Announcement.
That’s what I meant,...
Advice for potential interns continued.
DO NOT send me your resume in .docx format or I will most CERTAINLY delete it without even reading it.
Why is this?
Because it’s Windows Vista.
And Vista sucks!
Save it as .doc!
Swine flu planning session #1.
Ellie and I are planning to hole up in my apartment at the first sign of swine flu in DC. We are going to live off popcorn, chips, cheese dip and ramen.
I am in a battle of wills with my Cisco IP phone.
I am currently losing the battle.
Advice for potential interns.
I’m going through about 80 applications right now for a summer internship at my firm. Here are some tips from someone who applied and interviewed for a lot of internships and who is now on the other side of the process:
Put your cover letter in the body of the e-mail. I’m not going to click a .pdf or .doc cover letter.
Use bullets. Lots of them. In your cover letter, keep paragraphs...
Should I get a mask?
Swine flu has me nervous about riding the bus/Metro every day.
Little-known fact.
When I was young—about 4, or so, my mom could probably clarify the exact age—I had a stuttering problem. According to doctors who treated me, my brain worked faster than I could speak, and there was a delay between what I thought I wanted to say and what I actually could say.
I remember snippets of going to speech therapy. I had to sit in a dark room, and there would be pictures...
You know you've gone work-crazy when...
…you consider adding a line to your phone plan for a Blackberry devoted solely to work e-mails—when you’ve already got an iPhone.
This is just a hypothetical, naturally I’m not talking about myself.
Cough.
The problem with downtown Silver Spring.
It’s an overcrowded cesspool of humanity attempting to relax but unable to, because, well, it’s a cesspool.
Gentrification vomited all over this place. I admit—it’s handy to eat and go to a 20-screen movie theatre with less than 50 steps between the two spots. Am I willing to give up my sanity to have a choice between Noodles & Company, Chipotle and Macaroni Grill? (I...
JaclynDay.com →
C’est fini!
(Well, not quite, but at least I have something there.)
Finally!
Found a decent hosting site for the little bit I needed space for. So, my blog address is blog.jaclynday.com and I’ll be using jaclynday.com as a splash page linking to the blog and other things…once I design it.
“Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly! A police...”
– Fiancee of alleged Craigslist Killer defends him.
I’m all for innocent until proven guilty, but they have the guy’s IP address linking him to the posts, correct? Also, is he not on surveillance tape at the hotels?
Okay, I gave in.
I’m using Tweetie.
“The former vice president had a particular way of conducting foreign policy.”
– White House press secretary Robert Gibbs discussing Dick Cheney in a diplomatic fashion.
There are few books solely about love that I can...
I’m reading one right now that I cannot put down. I even love the typeface the publisher used.
Goals (large & small) for the next 6 months:
Start taking outfit photos again.
Find townhouse/larger apartment for Brandon and I to move into come July/August.
Take a vacation with Brandon this summer—somewhere warm!
Read every single book I check out from the library.
Keep my apartment dazzlingly clean.
Try a new recipe at least once a week.
Work out at least three times a week.
My favorite time of the day.
Lying in bed with Brandon, both of us reading. The dogs are usually snuggled between us, or laying up on my pillow, near my head. It’s quiet, relaxing and perfect.
Man, distressed at finding out he's flying to... →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
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I had to correct a co-worker’s pronunciation of Nunavut today while he read this story to us off his computer. I then quipped that my uncle lives in the Northwest Territories. They didn’t know where that was either.