We are excited to announce the addition of Jackie Graves to the REM Team in the role of Copywriter! Learn more about Jackie in her staff bio below.
At Work
Role at REM: Copywriter, blog writer, and anyone's pick-me-up throughout the day if you need me to be.
Education: I earned an advanced diploma in Journalism - Mass Media (with Honours) from Durham College in Oshawa.
Makes Me Smile at Work: How well all my colleagues get along and their willingness to laugh at my stupid jokes.
Favourite
Web site: Definitely YouTube. My all-time favourite channels are Imamu Room (cooking/slice of life), Kendall Rae (true crime), The Dr. John Delony Show (advice), The Right Opinion (commentary), Jenna Marbles (comedy), and honestly, probably so many more that I'm forgetting.
Movie: Howl's Moving Castle.
Food: Cheese is the superior food of all foods. I don't care what kind it is. If it's cheesy, it melts, it pulls... cheese, 100 per cent. Otherwise, I eat salmon a lot.
TV Show: My Hero Academia.
Musical Artists: In This Moment (top favourite), Sleep Theory, Evanescence, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Spirit Box, Memphis May Fire, Korn, Deftones.... etc. I think you may recognize a pattern here.
Time of Day: Dinner time. I'm hungry.
Season: I love the fall because it's a spooky season and all of the bugs die.
Places in the World: In a nice restaurant with my loved ones.
Recreational Activities/Hobbies: I recently got into DnD, playing video games, tending flowers and flower pressing, cooking and testing out recipes, watching YouTube, and thrifting.
Sport: Hahahahahahahahahaha... hahaha... I'm a writer, and I've never been good at sports and I don't understand them. ;')
App: Pinterest, definitely Pinterest. I have boards about virtually everything - food, drinks, hairstyles and colours, future wedding plans, favourite anime characters - you name it, I have a Pinterest board about it. I'm pretty sure I even have one about cheese...
Least Favourite
Food: There aren't a lot of foods I don't like, but I universally hate anything that tastes like black liquorice.
Activity: *Sigh* Folding laundry.
Time of Day: The last thirty minutes before I have to wake up.
Season: Summer, I like it when it's warm but once it gets humid I embody my horoscope: a crab.
Place: At the end of literally any line.
More Info
Best Thing Someone Said to You: "Depression has a way of making you feel you were always depressed, and always will be depressed. But that isn't true."
Life Motto: Believing you and the world around you can be better is the first step in making it so. Despair leads to a lack of progress.
My Hero: Sean O'Toole, my high school writing teacher. He actually made me believe I could do this for a living.
One of the Things I Find Fascinating: Anything creepy or macabre - I used to host a live horror podcast.
Most People Don’t Know This About Me: Before going to journalism school, I was on the fast track to becoming an RMT to help people with physical therapy and sports injuries. But, I changed my mind and went to journalism school instead.
