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Daily Dose: Mental Hygiene

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

Are You Flossing?

Drawing on Skitch, accessed through Evernote, by Will Willingham.
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I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.
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About Will Willingham

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

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  1. L. L. Barkat says

    April 30, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Is that mint floss? Because if it is, I’m more likely to go ahead and use it.

    Reply
  2. Maureen Doallas says

    April 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Is it the thin kind or the thicker stuff that’s like tape? Is it tensile? And brand. . . is it “green” – that is, does it come from a certain Burt or maybe Tom in Maine?

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  3. L. L. Barkat says

    April 30, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    If it’s tensile, will that improve my grammar? 😉

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  4. Matthew Kreider says

    April 30, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    Sometimes one simply needs to call the dentist. 🙂

    Reply
  5. Megan Willome says

    April 30, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    what will you do next?

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  6. Monica Sharman says

    April 30, 2012 at 6:33 pm

    Ouch, that looks painful. 🙂 But, anything to get rid of the plaque and avoid cavities & halitosis.

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  7. Will Willingham says

    April 30, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    Megan, help me. I’m in too deep… Throw me a line of dental floss…

    Reply
  8. laura says

    April 30, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    OH! MY! This is just…perfect. Grinning ear to ear here. Sure is good medicine.

    Reply
  9. Bill Vriesema says

    April 30, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Good for writers and poets as it produces a new line of thought.
    Actually, this is how the string theory was thought up.

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  10. L. L. Barkat says

    April 30, 2012 at 9:12 pm

    Love it. You may be interested to know that I had a cheese crown when I worked with that Team. I believe it was bestowed by Dan King. Kind of went nicely with the title Laura Boggess gave me… Spam Queen.

    Hmmm. I need some new food-royalty monikers that are more sophisticated. Or at least a little healthier 🙂

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  11. Will Willingham says

    April 30, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    I’ve heard L.L. has some things to say about string theory…

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  12. L. L. Barkat says

    April 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm

    Ha! You’ve got a memory like a steel trap. How do you get it open for cleaning day? 😉

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  13. Will Willingham says

    April 30, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    Actually, I have to credit Jennifer Lee for that one. She linked Dan King interview in another conversation recently where string cheese — I mean string theory — made an appearance.

    (And, for real, I typed string cheese. I noticed and decided not to cover my error.)

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  14. Monica Sharman says

    May 1, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    it was appropriate that you didn’t delete the “cheese” in a comment that mentioned Jennifer. You know her and her old-fashioned typewriter. 🙂

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