No one's called me Jac in twenty years. Just don't call me Jackie. I'll
answer to almost anything else.
I'm just confirming that I got the emails and I'll see if I can set-up
some sort of organizational system.
You asked about skills earlier and I thought of a couple of things that
you might want to know. I'm not really good at design. I'm a fine artist
who paints mainly nudes. My knowledge of anatomy is quite solid. Anyone
who experiences seizures while viewing genitalia should use caution if
he or she googles my name. In architecture school I struggled in the
design courses but had the best grade in the structures class. I can use
many of the common graphics programs, so if you need something in a
pinch I can probably do it, but graphic skills are common and many
people are better at them than I.
Natively, I'm strong in spatial abilities, math and that sort of thing.
In terms of experience, I'm strong on language skills. I've taught
English abroad and my French is very good. I've taken university level
classes at Laval, a French speaking university. They were the regular
classes in art history, math and physics, not classes for people
learning French. I've helped French speaking academics put their papers
in English. Unfortunately, I'm not good enough to do English to French
translation.
I'm really, really weak in clerical skills. You need to know this.
Lately, I've been looking in to returning to school for a second
bachelor's in computer science/math.
I've taken classes in drawing comics, although nothing I've drawn has
ever been published.
In most contexts I'd mention that I write well, but that's probably
redundant in this case.
In order to get by, I've done a lot of things: interior decoration,
surface decoration, trompe l'oeil, drapery, grant writing, modeling.
There are one or two other things I'll keep to myself for now, but you
can say I've had a colorful life.