Skimming my interests list

rezendi just posted about his self-observed preference for movies and books about men rather than women, wondering what this meant. He also noted that his LJ interests list was skewed far more to male than female writers, performers, and such.

So I did a quick skim of mine, trying not to count duplicates (Le Guin is in there more than once, as is Moxy Fruvous, to catch spelling variants). I got 11 that are clearly about women or work by women (e.g. Mary Gentle, Earthsea); 19 that are clearly about men or work by men (e.g. Sondheim, Space Child's Mother Goose); 6 that are specifically about feminism or gender (including "feminism" and "tiptree award").

There are also lots that don't fit any of these categories--cats, New York City, weightlifting--and one or two that could be counted in here but shouldn't be ("fainting in coils," which I added after I saw it on rysmiel's list).

I don't know what, if anything, this means, especially given that I've been thinking I need to update my "interests" list for a while, and that there are several things that are on there because, at one point or another, people were making a point of adding that specific interest, including "cold girly steel" and "anti-marriage protection week".

Skimming my interests list

rezendi just posted about his self-observed preference for movies and books about men rather than women, wondering what this meant. He also noted that his LJ interests list was skewed far more to male than female writers, performers, and such.

So I did a quick skim of mine, trying not to count duplicates (Le Guin is in there more than once, as is Moxy Fruvous, to catch spelling variants). I got 11 that are clearly about women or work by women (e.g. Mary Gentle, Earthsea); 19 that are clearly about men or work by men (e.g. Sondheim, Space Child's Mother Goose); 6 that are specifically about feminism or gender (including "feminism" and "tiptree award").

There are also lots that don't fit any of these categories--cats, New York City, weightlifting--and one or two that could be counted in here but shouldn't be ("fainting in coils," which I added after I saw it on rysmiel's list).

I don't know what, if anything, this means, especially given that I've been thinking I need to update my "interests" list for a while, and that there are several things that are on there because, at one point or another, people were making a point of adding that specific interest, including "cold girly steel" and "anti-marriage protection week".

job

I do not like writing cover letters.

Nonetheless, I have done so. This one wasn't as bad as most, because it wasn't "Dear Person I've Never Met, here's why I'm wonderful." Instead, it was "Dear person I worked for a year ago, here's what I've been doing, and why you should hire me for the new project." With lots of details, because what I've been doing is much more closely connected to the job I hope to get than is usually the case.

Technically, there isn't a specific job I'm applying for--at least, Edie wasn't aware of a particular job title. So I'm asking for "a position on $new_project" and emphasizing how $current_project, and what I did a year ago, when I worked for her the last time, prepares me for this. I also mentioned the names of a couple of supervisors in my cover letter.

That all went off by email to her personal AOL address, since she won't be getting mail here at the office for a few days yet.

Oddly, while I don't like writing cover letters, it didn't make me half as nervous as asking L (WINOLJ, at least not yet) and cattitude to look at my resume.

Now, I just have to remind myself that I cannot swap off going to the gym with buying coffee for Cattitude--even if he were willing, his going to the gym wouldn't get me exercised (though the swap would get him coffee).

job

I do not like writing cover letters.

Nonetheless, I have done so. This one wasn't as bad as most, because it wasn't "Dear Person I've Never Met, here's why I'm wonderful." Instead, it was "Dear person I worked for a year ago, here's what I've been doing, and why you should hire me for the new project." With lots of details, because what I've been doing is much more closely connected to the job I hope to get than is usually the case.

Technically, there isn't a specific job I'm applying for--at least, Edie wasn't aware of a particular job title. So I'm asking for "a position on $new_project" and emphasizing how $current_project, and what I did a year ago, when I worked for her the last time, prepares me for this. I also mentioned the names of a couple of supervisors in my cover letter.

That all went off by email to her personal AOL address, since she won't be getting mail here at the office for a few days yet.

Oddly, while I don't like writing cover letters, it didn't make me half as nervous as asking L (WINOLJ, at least not yet) and cattitude to look at my resume.

Now, I just have to remind myself that I cannot swap off going to the gym with buying coffee for Cattitude--even if he were willing, his going to the gym wouldn't get me exercised (though the swap would get him coffee).