Theodora L'Engle Knight

Theodora L'Engle Knight
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Birthday
July 02
Title
Pack Leader, Her Royal Highness
Company
Prozac On Paws: The Tale of Three Spayed Females
Bio
raised in Boston and never meant to leave. went to hahvahd and barely survived the experience, but i did have some lovely brushes with greatness there that i will never forget. i got 2/3 of an mba and mistakenly got into finance. now i'm a recovering accountant. you never really recover. thankfully fell into screenwriting by collaborating on a tv movie and selling it to nbc. wrote scripts for a while. also did some playwriting and was blessed to have my stuff workshopped with some pretty good actors. then i became agoraphobic after a hysterectomy to remove The Fibroid Tumor that Ate Santa Barbara. I adopted a 9-year-old yellow lab, Good Willa Hunting, and trained her to be my service dog. the second time around i married a wonderful and talented landscape architect/jazz flute and sax player. we moved up to portland, oregon 2 weeks after 9/11. lost thelma the love kitty on the way. lost my husband to pancreatic cancer and part of my brain to george brad pittuitary boomer tumor willis. now i live in senior low income housing with my current service dogs/canine crew: Ella Fitzgerald and Cocoa Chanel. tumor george is gone gone gone, i'm writing again and even thinking about going back to the standup comedy open mikes. anything and everything is possible. i just have to leave the house one day at a time. As Steven Wright says, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

OCTOBER 28, 2009 12:44AM

why i shud be chosn as Ed I Tor (thanks, tink)..

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(please keep checking back because i will be updating all night with more brilliantly witty remarks and please pass this on to your friends on here because i am an ATTENTION WHORE but i also just plainly LOVE AND LIVE to make people LAUGH.)

 

because i can play favorites as well as anyone else can.

because, on the same subject, i'm friends with hardly anyone who gets EP and Cover and Top Rated all the time now, which makes room for all kinds of possibilities, folks, and i can be bribed with dark chocolate and puppy pics!

because i write about sex and dogs and sometimes i write about Sex AND Dogs, for those with a kinkier bent.

because, on this same topic, i was a major 'ho back in the day and will write my Sex and Dating Protocol finally if i'm given enough encouragement and it is FABULOUS, PEOPLE, FABULOUS.

because i have the most adorable Wonderpups/Service Dogs in the Known World, well, at least in Portland, OR as i've been told, and we have weekly Interspecies Family Meetings, which i periodically blog about.

me carrying cocoa 

ella from the side 

because, and shoot i almost forgot this important one, i am agoraphobic and also keep Vampire Hours so you won't find me gallivanting off here and there and being unavailable because i have a Real Life, and you'll be able to reach me in the middle of the night when you have a brainstorm or the muse whacks you on the head or whatever.  

because i've been pretty much Blacklisted by the Powers That Be, even though i'm writing my best stuff ever, and i used to get EPs pretty regularly before i began making disgruntled comments. what is gruntled, by the way? (and i will be asking crucial questions like this one.)

because i have Early Kindergarten taste and LOVE cartoons.

because, even though i am a huge ATTENTION WHORE, i also actually care about people and carp like fairness and shit.

because, on this same topic, i have too much time on my agoraphobic hands (and there is all that caring carp), so i do notice when people haven't posted for a while and i check in with them and make sure that they are okay, so people will actually feel that at least one Ed I Tor gives a shit about them.

because i can be depended on to go into a Bad Mania every few months and blast my favorites and lose friends and alienate people so that Other Talented People can get some well-deserved EP and Cover attention, which is only fair!

because when i get Good Manic (when i'm coming off a bad bipolar 2 depression), i get euphoric and love everyone and read everything and this gives new writers and people who are new to me a good chance at EP/Cover. (which is only freaking fair, people.)

because there are a shitload of Bipolar people on here and i kind of understand them even if we don't all get along. and i understand all the Depressives too!

because i went to private girls school and to Hahvahhd so i know all about Dangling Participles and Misplaced Modifiers and that kind of carp/crap, plus i'm my own Spellcheck!

because i am a Recovering Accountant and someone might want to count some things some time, like how many EPs and Covers will be given to people who never get any but who deserve a big ass shout out?

because i'm extremely intuitive and can tell when people are full of shit, even when it's ME.

because i can't freaking figure out what to do on Facebook, so i won't be updating you about my freaking "status" all the time.

 

once again, if you enjoy this at all, please RATE it because, to me, Ratings are like Gold Stars!!!! and i rate you guys. i promise.

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this is so fucked. i'm not listed in New Posts! figured. okay, i'm bumping this or myself or my wonderpups. whatever. love love love
Since I don't believe in bipolar people, I can't support you. Oh and please don't misunderstand me on this. It's not that I don't believe that people can be diagnosed as bipolar, it's just that once they are diagnosed that way they cease to exist, and therefore I don't believe in them.
i think i understand you, Andy. i hope so. i know that invisible thang all too well. love love love
Teddy
You'd be perfect for the job. And once you get it, you can really bring back the quality gone MIA on the cover.
I believe you can do all that you promise. Rated for believability!
You forgot funny! Editors with a sense of humour...who woulda thunk it?

Send Kerry your resume, Teddy.
What private girls school? Was it in Connecticut?
Hi Teddy, I figured I vote for you then you could vote for me! Just kiddin'. We could start a small revolution. Some fresh thinking would be wonderful on the cover. R
oh, i LOVE you guys so freakign much. i did forget to add FUNNY. i was trying for Showing and not Telling. :) thank you. i was so afraid that no one would come by and i would feel like a tool. i'll keep posting more reasons as i think of them.

Kerry has blacklisted me. i'd have to create a new Identity to put my resume in. any ideas??? love love love
Re-tool your resume to be Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue--they won't be able to turn that down! Plus, with that Mickey crystal purse, well, let's just say you will blind them with bling!
john, Miss Winsor's School for Girls in Brookline, Mass, down the street from Temple Beth Israel, which is a joke because it's All WASPs, all teh tiem. well, it was.
MP, you're right!!! i love your creativity, girl. i do have MINNIE MOUSE BLING in my corner. Anna Wintour it is!!!
Well, here you are doing it again. Making me laugh when I can't sleep. Let it fly with mania. Let it fly with Euphoria. I read you because you paint with bold strokes! I'm crashin' in a few, but cheers to you in your all night quest. (gold star)
seriously, is that all the peopel who are going to come by? after i PMd people and everything? shit, and i added mroe funny stuff. well, maybe people will read it in the morning... as i Jew, i say... (big ass sigh) i'll go sit in the dark...
hey, Scupper, so glad you just happened to come by (i did pressure her on her own post, people. yes, i am that blatant whcih only makes me a better marking person for OS). and yes, Bold Strokes are my Thang, i guess. i'm so glad i make you laugh when you can't sleep. shit, that's my In for more Ratigns. i need to market myself to all the Insomniacs on here!!!!! my next post title? "Insomniacs? Can't Sleep? Come be either entertained or Bored to tears. Both help you Sleep." love love love
oh, Nelly!!! thank you. i don't believe that i could win in a Voting thang. too many seriously Popular peeps around here. i'm hoping for a surprise attack or for the Anna Wintour thang to work. we'll see.... love love lvoe!
I bet you could jump through a flaming hoop with style too! I'd vote for you and the wonder pups. They'd be super cute with little editor's hats on.
oh, i adore you, Freaky Editor!!!! not so sure about the flaming hoop thang. bad back and all that carp. but the wodnerpups would surely look fabulous in an Ed I Tor's cap. i see myself as a Dark Horse, well, or Dark Canine-American, candidiate. love lvoe lvoe!
You are very, very funny tonight...and I always like going to bed laughing, so that's what I am going to do!! Thank you Teddy, for showing your writing talent tonight, and yeah, you have good reason to be an editor for OS!

night...and yes, I rated, lol.
oh, thank you, Sheila. that makes me happy, that i sent you to bed laughing. i know, i do feel funny tonight. i drank some coffee, maybe that's it. or i'm just accepting my inner demons for this night. i'm having a blast adding to this thang too. so it's all good!!! love love love and gratitude
Rutilus!!!!! i'm so happyt o see you here. i'm off to re-read your exceptional post that is still Top Rated!! i'm honored that you come visit me!! love love lvoe and gratitude
Back again for the addenda. I can't get my head around facebook either. Aaaand I'd like to know what gruntled is too, if you ever find out.
this post made me laugh, especially the part about how mania will help you in editing...now I think I will remember to that when I write a future resume...and it made me happy because I was getting annoyed with some of the other attempts to be an Ed I Tor, which weren't as funny....
oh, nat, you make me so happy. i'm mortified that i can't figure facebook now and now the freaking site keeps telling me that it's unavailable because of maintenance. and all i want to do is check to see if anyone from oregon is going to the Seattle meetup November 4 th so i could maybe actually meet some epople from OS since i'm agoraphobic as shit and can't get there on my own. i'm so glad taht someone else, someone very bright, also doesn't get this stupid site!!!! love love love and, yes, gruntled. anyone?? Bueller?
Melissa!!!! i'm so glad that you found this funny! i'm pretty impressed with myself, actually. but i keepb try8ing to rememberr all the other unique thangs about me that would make me more and more qualified to be Ed I Tor. love love lvoe and gratitude!!
You already know you got my vote!! Send that resume in, use the name Florence J. Carter of Waverly Manor, Heiress always get the big gigs.

*nodding* ;)
oh my Tinkerbelle! i adore you. i know that your vote will be split several ways but that is fine. i should get your comedy vote though. you're so right about heiresses but i might go the Anna wintour way. love lvoe lveo and gratitude!!

kate, thanks.
okay, i just realized that i maybe shouldn't have had that small amount of coffee. it's like cocaine for me, gets me bouncing off the walls, but a little bit can be the perfect anti-depressant. i popped a lorzepam and a muscle relaxant -- no, i am not a drug addict, sadly, since i LOVE N.A. -- and i'm doing much better.

but i HATE that i have to go to the Cover page to find Recent posts but i do love that my new friend Rutilus is still Top Rated! because he said it for all of us and i hope to God it goes viral and gets into the right hands so that at long last someone has some decency and so many of stop losing everything because they have a headache or other kind of ache. love love lvoe and gratitude for all.
Maybe they could use an extra editor...to read more than six or seven peoples' posts anyway and....ahhhh, I'm sounding spite-ish again!

WOnderpups for AssOciate EditOrs!
Damn it, Teddy, how do I vote for now - Freaky Troll or you? AAARRRGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!



I'll flip a coin...
oh, Scoubi!!! you rock, man. i knew you'd have my back. of course the wonderpups will work with me. i've been gettign on them about using their words. and, dude, your latest post is superb! i'll have to read it again because i'm tired from working so hard on my pitch for that job. well, read my comments. i love you, sweetheart. love love love

Cymraeg, now that is a dilemma, having to choose between two fabulous babes. well, it's Freaking AND Cat. i won't be hurt if you vote for the Freakster. she's been very very sweet to me lately. but she has to agree to take my calls!!! love love love

and so much gratitude for you guys coming by!!
There are colored lists on OS? One black and one gold?
You go girl! Rtd
You've got my endorsement Teddy, by the way, if you do gt the nod here I am available as a toady at reasonable rates.
because you're fabulous, of course

(okay, do I get an EP for my support?)
now, teddy as editor would really keep the place jumping and varied, two really good traits. especially on the cover.

though i imagine in the end they will not pick one of us bloggers - because they would have to pick one of their favorites and then people would quit.... course, then new people would join, so....
Too bad it's not an elected position - You would win in a landslide!
I also went to a private boarding school in dear old MA and am still recovering.
oh Traveller! colored lists??? i'm completely confused. what does that mean? doesn't matter. love love love!

Bobbot! i will never get selected for anything on here. but, if i ever were, by some miracle, i would for sure let you be my toady! love lvoe love

Brian, love,m you rock!!! i'd give you an EP in a minute. thanks for the support for my twisted view of this shit. love love love

oh, Janie Jee, thanks for coming by, love!!! they will do what they will do. who cares? this is about humor, sweetheart. this is about just having fun with this. and maybe getting out just a tiny bit of rage. :) you're a trooper to come by and im' so grateful! love love love

Kirsty! so good to see you here, sweetheart. i'd love to have your vote. love love love

Jeff Brawer!!! i'm finding you very loveable, man. i wouldn't win for dogcatcher on here. i'm not one of the Cool Kids, but i am Funny. which private boarding school? there are so many. Andover? Exeter? shit, so many of them. and of course you haven't recovered. i'm not sure you're meant to. :) love lvoe love

and huge gratitude for all of you for coming by.
Vote for Theo!!!!! I vote for everyone good though so maybe I am not the best to say anything but hell yea girl you would be great!!!!! Sorry hon, I was sleeping the sleep of the restless last night....Oh STAR!
never mind, LL2. who cares who votes how? i was just being funny. and i want to hear from Suzie. i will pay for you to call her. i'll be happy to call her myself. waiting until Sunday seems silly.
If you put it to a vote, you win by a landslide!
R~
I think Doug Flutigue maybe making a comeback!
Teddy, I went to Williston. It's Williston Northamton School now since going coed. Not soon enough for me unfortunately.
I like the way you think, Ms. Theo! Unlike some ed i tor candidates, I believe you tell it true, and best of all, your humor wins the day!!!
I will vote for you, Teddylicious, because you are intuitively full of shit (wait?? what?????) and fer sher can tell when others are, and u haven't figured out how to be cute and coy on Facebook yet either!
"because i am a Recovering Accountant" is just too wonderful for words!

But, please, don't give me any "big ass shout out[s]"; I'd rather people didn't know about my big ass.
because you alone know how to celebrate the creative energies of alternative spelling and capitalization!

:-P
Well, seems to me a LOT of people (at least here in OS-ville) know you exist! Feels pretty good to know that, doesn't it? All of your reasons "they" should hire you seem valid to me (but I think we've established already that I don't know nuthin'!), so go with all the other comments, cause they know stuff! ;>)

And if it only takes coffee and late hours to write this funny without agonizing over every word for days? Bring me some coffee, please!! (Nah--I think it takes more than that......)

Rated, of course--gold star as big as your Ellie! (Tell her I said hello!). D
Theo! Theo! Theo! Wiggling with excitement like my loooong bodied dog does, can I take the minutes at the interspecies meetings? *Licking my chops, repeatedly* Please, please, please!?!?
I want you to be Ed-I-Tor!!!
Rated
I can vouch that Theo is always there to check up on a fellow OS'r and as to why they aren't writing and if they really are still alive and may be needing some help. Caring girl, she is!
rated:)
"because i went to private girls school and to Hahvahhd so i know all about Dangling Participles and Misplaced Modifiers and that kind of carp/crap, plus i'm my own Spellcheck!"

Darnit, Theo! You have those "qualifications" that they're looking for...now the rest of us don't stand a chance!

Rated and Zumapick.
Weeeeeell, I'm still deciding....

First of all, were you certified as being born? That Obama dude apparently isn't and I made the mistake of voting for him...

Secondly, Do you use Twitter? I refuse to vote for a Twit... I won’t hold Facebook against you because some of my best friends “give face”…

Next, I WILL need to check that you actually DID attend Harvard... Repeat after me, "I parked the car, in Harvard yard"... **listens for a REALLY whiny, “needs to be bitch slapped” accent*

Lastly, have you ever deformed a cake by jumping in the middle of it? (jumping out of one would be okay seeing as you admit to being "a 'ho back in the day" and a current ATTENTION WHORE). This is important because I am an avid supporter of the Cake Anti-Deformation League. I'm sure you understand....

P.S. I AM pleased that you are bipolar... the South Pole ALWAYS gets neglected...
it would make life So much more interesting, and entertaining!!!
Another gold star for you!!! You DID appear in my new posts column :)
I second what verbal said - your unique version of spelling and punctuation would put many of us grammatically challenged folks at ease.
You have my vote for the pure anarchy of your outlook.

And, if you will permit me, an aside to Andy:

Bipolar people don't cease to exist, they just cancel themselves out, thereby making them much more difficult to see. Like trying to see a playing card held edge-on from across the room.

As for me, I prefer to think of myself as multipolar, and I strive for omnipolarity.

There are way too many people around who are unipolar. Where's the fun in that ?

And, by the way, I have begun using the Beta test version of OuterSpaceBook and have, with your implied permission, re-posted some selections of your posts.

You can rest assured that they are well on their way to Alpha Centauri, though why you set your sights so low eludes me.
wow, i guess all i have to do is be snarky and extremely honest and promote myself for a position i don't want and people will show up! who knew?

oh, Scanman, i'd vote for you anytime. love love love

OE!! you're here twice in a row, man. i love that. and, yes, that Flutigue is getting some airtime. love love love

oh, my Owl girl, i always tell it true, for you. love lvoe love

Annie, i wish i could keep track of where you are and what you're doing, girl. thanks for coming by. i really hope that i'm not full of shit tho. love love love

AtHome!! you comment is hilarious. i love that! fortunately, because i have the same issue, Big Ass Comment does not refer to one's posterior. love lvoe love

Thanks, Verbal, for coming by. yes, i have created my own rules for grammar and such. makes things a whooole lot easier. love lvoe lvoe

and huge gratitude, even though i seriously suspect that if anyone else has written this, well, if any of the Favorites had, that this would be a quantum leap more popular. whatever, right?

back to bed. that damn Cable Guy woke me up. back to Vampire hours.
oh, YO, i almost missed you, girl. thank you for having my back. it could not mean more. yes, this one kind of wrote itself but there's always plenty of agonizing, as you know. lots and lots and lots of agonizing. love lvoe lvoe and gratitude
Theordora, you are like a breath of fresh air. How wonderful!

Hope
XOXOXO
All excellent reasons! You have my vote. And how about that Sex and Dating Protocol piece? 'Cause I could use some help. Not that I follow rules, but if they were *your* rules, I might start. Well, we'll see.
Julie, what a great comment, love!!! cocoa is also a loooong pup and loves to wiggle. our Interspecies Family Meetings are quite fascinating. i will post another one soon, just for you. love love love

Debb4, you are the sweetest ever. i'm going to figure out what type of jeans i want/need and let you know. i had no idea that you moved so fast, girl. :) you're a sweetheart. love lvoe love

Zuma girl!!! wow, i love that you're impressed with my qualifications and that i'm a Zumapick! very cool. love love love

Safe Bet! i did go to Hahvahd and Pahked my Cahhh. i also got many many many tickets. it was under another name but i am pretty compulsively honest so it's all good. love lov love

oh my Conniemack is here! well, she's not really mine anymore since i see her Favorited all over the place! so happy that you're rooting for me, girl. love love love

oh, Blue!!! i LOVE my gold stars, girl! love love love
oh, Mamoore, i love putting people at ease with my own version of punctuation and such. love love love

Motoring! i love the whole Multipolar concept. it rocks. i'm a fan of the Universe so i'm thrilled that you're sending my posts off to who knows where! very cool. love love love

Hopeful Starving!! thanks so much for coming by! i am told that i have a unique view of OS and the world. love love love!

it's my Siren girl! okay, okay, i will start on the Protocol after the Vote, okay? love love love
You should be a shoe in for Vampire Hours alone....;)
oh, Cat!!!! thank you. i would love to live in a Shoe. love love love!
You are way over qualified for the position of Open Salon Editor. Did that sound gruntled or disgruntled?

rated
oh, LW!!! soo great to see you here. i'm feeling like carp/crap and attention always helps. i'd say Gruntled, but, again, i'm not sure. lvoe love lvoe and gratitude
A bipolar editor would make me very gruntled. That's like two editors for the price of one, really. And I'm depressive, so you'll love my pessimism half the time. And I have ADD, so you'll love my ill-considered rants the other half of the time. Win-win!

You can haz my vote!
You have my vote Teddy. Great list. Rated

My favorite line; "because i'm extremely intuitive and can tell when people are full of shit, even when it's ME. "
Voting for you too. Who can argue with a post like this???
Crucial questions like "what is gruntled" as opposed to disgruntled: now THAT'S content I want to see. Imagine the possibilities.
Hahahaha... I've missed you!!! xoxoxo
god, i'm so grateful for all of you who came here over the last few days, even those to whom i had to send multiple PMs. :)

it's been a rough couple of days with health care carp and a bit of an irritable mania going on. well, more than a bit. so i'm laying low once again. shit, when do i ever not lay low on here. when i'm in this agitated state, i feel extremely less than and unpopular and want to tell everyone where to go. it's not pretty. i realized today taht Facebook is really just another place for me to feel less than treasured so i'm letting that alone too for a while.

love love lvoe and gratitude for all!