Are they changing their identities?

And even easier now that there's WiFi in there.

My great great grandmother refused to ever wear anythign other than long skirts without undies (or so the story goes, I imagine she wore a blouse of some sort as well), because she so cherished the ability to squat in a field.

My Anthropology Prof. loved to use the example of some culture where the men wore something sarong-y (long & tightly wrapped) that required them to sit/squat to pee and the women wore looser skirts (I think), so could just stand over the hole to go - as an example of just 'cuz you think something is a hard-and-fast man v. woman rule, it ain't necessarily so.

Looking back over what I copied and what I typed, I no longer remember why I thought they were related. But what the heck, interesting factoid!

On a completely different topic, how many words to a page would you ballpark for 12-point Times New Roman on 8.5x11 paper? I'd always thought 500 or so, but my new boss keeps saying something much higher, and I don't want to argue with her.

Probably not much higher, but I can buy higher. The standard estimate for doublespaced Courier 12 is 250, and TNR gives you significantly more words per page than Courier, so I can see singlespaced being up to around 600.

I wouldn't use "Dear Jim", Susan.

I'm looking at a job listing where applicants are instructed to email resumes to jim@whatever.org. I've been poking around the website, but haven't been able to determine the last name and title of Jim. So do use the salutation "Dear Jim" or "To Whom It May Concern"?

I think you use the latter if no identity is provided for in the listing. Besides, you never know if jim is really Jim, or maybe Janet Iglesias McSquarsky's initials.

On a completely different topic, how many words to a page would you ballpark for 12-point Times New Roman on 8.5x11 paper?

Double spaced=250.

I can see singlespaced being up to around 600.

Yeah, but ... not 950, right? Which is what she's saying? I *think* she probably means 550 and just got it confused for some reason.

I wish I had been here more than three days so I could just say WTF. Alas.

Which reminds me -- someone I was hanging out with the other day kept saying WTF. Like "double-you-tee-eff." It was weird.

Also weird, I just got complimented on my cleanliness by the custodian. I used to get that in my last job, too. WTF are people doing in their offices to make them so dirty??

Yeah, 950 is nuts.

Oh, and in the cover letters I've done so far on this job search (all three of them), I've been including a sentence to the effect that I left my previous job to freelance upon the birth of a child in 2004, and that I'm now seeking a return to full-time work. In a way that feels like oversharing, but it seems like it's best that they know I left of my own free will for a standard reason rather than being fired or laid off. Make sense?

WTF are people doing in their offices to make them so dirty??

See above, re: just peeing where you stand.