(about)

Why yes! I am no longer "Miss Boe" (though everyone who has met me before March 10, 2001 will probably always refer to me with a quick "jennyboe"!) I got hitched and surprised myself by taking my husband's name. You can now call me "Mrs. Hayes" if you want to make me giggle.

OK, enough about my personal life. I've worked in the publishing industry, print and online, for the past ten years or so (except for a few unemployed periods blissfully full of pancakes and Jenny Jones, and quite a few bizarrely unrelated temp jobs).

My current full-time title is Online Production Manager, which means I work on various online courseware-related projects (conversion from print to online and stuff like that). I continue to work on various writing projects, and also maintain the award-winning web site for Fallout Records (Mr. Hayes' deluxe business). I also recently put together a site for my sister Amy's upcoming sure-to-be-fabulous shoe store in San Francisco, Delirious! (Not much there yet but it's comin' along!)

Some of the other things I've done over the years are

• editing (copy/content/technical)
• article and review writing
• web site production/design
• research
• proofreading
• creating documentation
• document conversion
• bookselling
• translation (Spanish to English)
• transcription
• high-end word processing (macros and stuff)

• I created the (somewhat cheesy) slogan for The Lipstick Page. (I got 10 lipsticks for doing so!) As of January, 2000, they don't seem to be using it anymore, so I'll just tell you what it was: "Put some style in your smile!"

• A sonnet I wrote in a college Shakespeare class received an honorable mention in a local Shakespeare festival's competition.

• I received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley. (It came in handy when I later had to compare the literature of catalogs.)

• I went to Dollywood in the summer of '98.

• My dad (John Boe) and Alice Kahn coauthored the book Your Joke is in the E-mail: Cyberlaffs for Mousepotatoes, a collection of jokes that have made the e-mail rounds. I edited all the jokes—a monumental task, as you can imagine. I also tried to get them to leave out some of the really awful ones (sometimes successfully, sometimes not).

• I purloined the phrase "all pancakes and Jenny Jones" (above) from Lisa Matson, My Little Pony collector extroardinaire, who had used it to aptly describe an enjoyably unemployed time.

For more fun, take a gander at my new Links page. (It's actually the law - you have to have a links page. The web police just busted me and I gotta do it or I'll be sent to internet jail or something.)