capitalist mafia.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

I had to submit a bio at work for a pitch. This is what I sent the client:

Mary Jones, Senior Copywriter

Mary sees the writing process as a Virigina Woolf novel: clean, precise, a little boring, sometimes painful, but made transcendent by one brilliant final phrase. She has been involved in medical marketing and copywriting since 2004, and has been working exclusively in healthcare copywriting since she finished her Master’s degree in 2008.

Before her days at 4D Mary’s life was, to be admitted, much less bright and meaningful. Despite this, she did manage to find her silver lining at agencies such as Greater Than One, TheMixxNYC, and Lodging Interactive. While at GTO, Mary wrote copy and developed strategy for a groundbreaking micro-advertising campaign. This campaign was intended to persuade individuals to get routine check-ups. Very important, these check-ups.

Mary has written copy for iPhone apps, videos, emails, consumer and HCP websites, press kits, newsletters, press releases, invitations, digital billboards, medical conference decks, and desktop applications.

Mary has worked with companies such as Meda Pharmaceuticals, sanofi aventis, Cephalon, Pfizer, Biosensors International, Biogen Idec, Novartis, and Cells for Cells (a charitable organization which raises money for cancer treatment through cell phone recycling initiatives).

Growing up, Mary’s father instilled in her a passion for expensive pieces of paper. This has led her to collect a BA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University and an MA in English Literature from Rutgers University. When she is not writing in the office, she is writing her novel at home. And when she is not doing that, she is taking pictures, she is traveling, and she is museum-going. Currently, she needs to update her blog and her Facebook profile, but cannot understand how anyone finds the time to do such things these days.

It shows how dry the Pharma world can be, that I am excited about sneaking this into a new business pitch. Sigh

Thursday, January 21, 2010

After reading this review, I thought, if I don't like this album, pitchfork will have permanently lost credibility with me. If you mention the blue album, keep it like a secret, malkmus and "early 00s emo" as the sounds-like touch points, this has got to be my jam, right?

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I have some kind of stomach flu, and I feel terrible. =(

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Remember when we used to have that offensively titled blog where we chronicled our disgusting eating habits? Yesterday would have been great:

- 3 dunkin donuts
- slice of cake
- mini cheese sandwich
- 1 miller light
- three glasses of white wine

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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

I just watched this. And you know what? I kind of liked it.

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

I launched my domain. Check 'er out! This took way longer than it should have, but it's done. Hooray!

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Goings On

Events of note in early December.

Lakshmi threw a birthday party for Daniel. Laks made cookies and roasted chestnuts and invited over a bunch of philosophers. It was a really cute party. At one point, L. gave a toast, which I think was, "to Daniel, who's cute and smart." Adorable.

My boss took the office out for a very fancy holiday dinner at Sepia, where I had the most amazing meal ever. Ever! At some point in the evening, a cop hand puppet showed up. Cop handpuppet + civil rights lawyers + booze = hilarity. It was a really nice evening. Nicer than anyone expected it to be. I am very grateful for my job.




Holidays

Mark and I stayed in Chicago for Christmas, which proved to be an awesome decision, given the horrible weather and airport delays both here and on the east coast. We spent Christmas eve with Mark's dad's crew, eating saganaki and moussaka at a Greek restaurant in the western burbs. Christmas day, we went to Mark's mom's house. We cooked dinner, decorated cupcakes and exchanged gifts. Mark's mom gave me some extremely thoughtful gifts, which was a really touching surprise. Mark gave me some amazing presents, among them the Stylophone, which I will be using to annoy the crap out of our neighbors and friends! Hours of entertainment!



Mark, looking eerily similar to Andre.


I jammed with Jacques and Kimi on Wednesday night. We worked on a couple of Jacques' new ones. Best quote of the evening: "This guitar riff hates women." Then we had pie time with Kimi and Michael out on the way west side where they live. K. and M. showed us their amazing condo, which was so beautiful and cool (and tidy!) that I actually felt really inadequate for a minute. I gave Jacques a ride, and we talked about our families and politics and the girl he has a major crush on. Mostly the last one. It was fun.

Mark and I celebrated the end of the decade with Laks and Daniel at our house. We had snacks and booze, chatted, listened to music, played a game. We each gave a happy, drunken toast at midnight. Great way to end this wonderful year.

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