It feels like I’ve spent days now tweaking my résumé, but it hasn’t really been days of work—it’s been many parts of many days, minutes at a time until I quickly tire of the task at hand and tell myself I’ll come back to it. I was on the phone with Jon about it today and he said, “We need another way to say ‘manage.’” One Roget’s Thesaurus later, I was itching to use the following: Take the helm. Pull the strings. Call the shots. Hold the reins. Ride herd on.

Ah, we like words.

Meanwhile, I was IMing with Gab the other day and I said, “Je travaille sur mon résumé,” and he said, “C’est quoi ce résumé?” and I was like, “Euh, c’est un résumé,” and he was like, “Mais c’est quoi ton résumé?” on and bloody on, I believe at one point I said, “C’est un résumé, aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!,” and then he said, “Mais tu résumes quoi?” and then, like the sun breaking through the clouds, like the angels descending to earth, like the chorus breaking into song, I realized “résumé” isn’t “résumé” in French. Ah, bon.