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keenoctopus

keenoctopus
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday
February 10
Bio
I'm a pharmacy tech with a master's in English - someday maybe I'll be able to put my schooling to use career-wise ... Until then, I'll be cultivating my ever-growing fascination with our convoluted health care sector-industry-bureaucracy.

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August 01, 2009 05:12PM
“I agree that the photos are gorgeous, and I love the artistic lettering. You're got a real knack! Does graphic design figure into many of your creative…”
About: A Room of Their Own
July 12, 2009 06:55PM
“Possible remedy: Use subsidies intended to provide "a laptop for every student" to give every kid a Kindle instead ...? "It's a compute…”
About: the uses of boredom
July 12, 2009 04:20PM
“Michael's Narrator in Snippet No. 3 is the most wonderfully perfect bit of meta ever! And it's equally wonderful, Michael, that metaness's OS blog prov…”
About: Snippets Sunday: Propaganda
July 12, 2009 03:56PM
“Catnlion, I agree that Rosario should have questioned the NP's decisions. That is why I include in my end note my intent to write more about how patien…”
About: Why I Want To Go Into H.I.M.
July 11, 2009 11:41PM
“Wow - that's an idea. A blog for Great Aunt Eolene. She would be thrilled! I kept her up to speed on my thesis about blogs as I was researching and wri…”
About: When They Were Orphans
July 11, 2009 11:29PM
“Jim E., I'm not sure - probably mostly sleeping. My sister went home to visit our parents for the weekend (she and I live in the same building) so I'll…”
About: Walter is 13!
July 11, 2009 05:55PM
“I've not listened to much reggae (though I'm a huge fan of Jimmy Cliff), but K'naan's lyrics and your anecdotal analysis are moving ... How refreshing…”
About: Is this the new Bob Marley?
July 11, 2009 05:44PM
“ooh - you have an elderly relative's writings to go through? Me too! It sounds like your grandmother was very prolific. My 92-year-old great aunt died…”
About: When They Were Orphans
July 11, 2009 05:34PM
“I like reading about what kind of student everyone was. And it's so true about the classroom setting conditioning kids to be competitive or developing…”
About: Fragments Friday: Tinkerbell!
July 10, 2009 11:43PM
“What a great idea, starting another blog to showcase your birdies (and sneak in Boland at the start, to boot)! I didn't even realize it was you, Meliss…”
About: When They Were Orphans
July 08, 2009 04:32PM
“Jim E., schizoid is the name of the game for kittehs. Just yesterday when I was visiting my sister, her cat Eppie leapt up and caught me in the lower l…”
About: Walter is 13!
July 08, 2009 03:15PM
“Nope, didn't work. Bleh.”
About: Walter is 13!
July 08, 2009 03:13PM
“Wait - let's try this:”
About: Walter is 13!
July 08, 2009 03:13PM
“I'm sure, Melissa, that Walter would love it if you sang your song to him - you would be paying him attention, after all. After he has a little while t…”
About: Walter is 13!
July 05, 2009 06:10PM
“Flashy! Make more! :D”
About: Flash Fiction (a very, very, very short story)
July 05, 2009 06:00PM
“"America is like the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant male of the world. America has enjoyed the privilege of superiority for the few centuries it&rsq…”
About: I’m Not Proud of Countries, I’m Proud of People
July 03, 2009 07:51PM
“Keep enjoying life. Make like the French, as you seem to like to do - sounds as though for you, meals with friends are about time with friends. Maybe y…”
About: “Everything You Say Sounds Like: You’re Fat!"
July 03, 2009 07:37PM
“Oh no! You're right. Naomi Klein and Glenn Greenwald are helping entertain us to death, just like everyone else. They feed us anxiousness and anger. Bu…”
About: Most of the People You Encounter in Real Life Are Strangers
July 03, 2009 07:09PM
“Funny how an idea I stole at age 5 should trip a (re)posting of a blog halfway around the world 23 years later. ...I had a nice little paragraph here t…”
About: The Heart versus the Head - The Release
June 30, 2009 05:38PM
“I agree with Connie Mack - there's a certain je ne c'est quoi about your style that's wonderful! And yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes, and yes, to everythin…”
About: I'm a Legal Drug Dealer
June 30, 2009 12:16AM
“I love, love, love how this makes my brain go all spider-webby. I have to multi-task at work, but I must like it more than I thought if I enjoy myself…”
About: Happy Belated Birthday, Grandma
June 29, 2009 11:55PM
“my favorite memory from my only drive up N Halstead in Chicago is of a gay male couple with a big beautiful Newfoundland and a baby in a stroller walki…”
About: What Did You Do To Celebrate Pride?
June 29, 2009 11:48PM
“Wow, look how huge a comment I made on my own post! How embarrassing. :-/”
About: Writing Stories, Writing Life
June 29, 2009 11:47PM
“Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments! Metaness: I went over to your blog, read a couple posts, and came away utterly flattered that you would be so…”
About: Writing Stories, Writing Life
June 29, 2009 10:33PM
“Just "met" the two of you, but so glad you're here. Your posts and the accompanying comments are like a little vibrant community unto themsel…”
About: My Father Was the Villain of My Childhood
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