Aphoenix.ca

I’ve been asked a few times why I have both a résumé and a CV when they’re the same thing. Now, before I explain my reasoning, let me say this: I don’t think that I’m necessarily correct and that the people who asked are incorrect. I merely would like to share my opinion and why I do things the way that I do.

Oh, and if you’re looking for someone to do web work for you, feel free to browse through my Curriculum Vitae and my Résumé.

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I used the term “baited breath” yesterday, which brings to mind a poem:

Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

Baited breath is a silly idea – what does one bait one’s breath with? (Evidently cheese if one is a mousehunter). Why do we say this?

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