cover_letter eatingstars i really really hate writing cover letters. 090402 ... no reason me too. though once you've written about 604.7 of them they tend to come a bit easier. 090403 ... past Dear so and so, I meet all the requirements on the basis of education and work experience. You require a high school graduate who can add. I have an M.A. and experience researching official and unofficial responses to diseases in a high stress environment. Please, please, don't dismiss me as over qualified. past 090403 ... drafty _o_i "During the past six years, I have also had experience tutoring second-language students and I need to find a less boring way to say that." 140414 ... e_o_i ...By which I meant to be e_o_i. But oi! to all those Inglandian punks and Ameri-Yurpian Bubbes (Yiddish grandmothers) and everyone who needs a diphthong in their ouch-I-stubbed-my-toe vocabulary. 140414 ... e_o_i "To the attention of Human Resources: I have a background in languages and teaching. Is that exciting? Okay, then hire me." I wish. 141010 ... e_o_i I think this sample would be good if it had a bit more focus. Then, if an opening to be the next J. G. Ballard ever emerges, I could enter at the nearest black hole: "I am writing with eagerness and false hopes, entertaining visions of lofty grandeur. I realize I do not deserve to be paid as much as you're offering, so let me work fewer jobs at once, oink and file. In particular, difficult yelping has to be reincarnated manually, without regard for the prizes accorded to digital natives. Hebrew grammar, as a vitamin K supplement, should not be taken without doctors; in fact, if you don't have a TARDIS in your backyard, you're doomed. Ambiguous statements lead to tram delay and absorbent heat-removal pads in fetuses, dangerous driving and call signals in men, and calibrated right turns and fervid placated vibes in women. Without vibraphones, there is no golly." 141014 ... e_o_i For writing submissions, "cover letter" usually means a very brief summary of whatever you wrote. So I must resist the temptation to make my poetry_chapbook cover_letter look like this: Dear _____ Press Team, Your post of "published chapbook" intrigued me. To be completely honest, I don't have any prior book experience. However, in my previous positions as Scribbled Poems in a Notebook and Digital Files with Poems in Them, I have demonstrated flexibility, patience, and a willingness to travel. Sometimes different parts of my body traveled to different places, which I am sure will make me an asset to your team. For instance, two of my limbs appeared in rudimentary versions on the exalted website of blather.newdream.net/red. My goal is to enhance your press with musings such as "what's if Anne of Green Gables traveled to other fictional worlds and started killing people" and "what's if Peter from the Bible was in love with Paul from the Bible but didn't want to admit it." Yours Sincerely, Fanfiction Is for Teenage Girls 241223 what's it to you? who go blather from