An American in Provence

I have come to that wonderful point in my life where I am writing yet another resume and cover letter. In french no less. (and I thought I was done with this kind of stuff!) Unfortunately, it is not a direct translation from English to French. Which is what I learned after copying and pasting my resume into the computer translator. Alain later informed me that I had written that I have experience in the "information of donkeys". Well, perhaps that is what I meant to say! He can't be sure that I didn't mean that.
Somehow "assess information" became "information of donkeys". Gotta love the way that computers think. Another thing that needs to be done is to write out the cover letter by hand on unlined paper. I guess they like to see your handwriting for personality analysis purposes. This could be less than good.