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Would you Eva?

Or life as the widow of an Alpha Geek. [Read More...]

Think you know me?

I grew up in Prospect Park, PA. I have two sisters (Lucy and Bridget) and two brothers (Ralph and Chuck) (no, my mother didn't have a lot of morning sickness, why do you ask? )  I went to Interboro schools. From there, I went to Penn State. I was happy there, so of couse I had to leave after four or five years. I dropped out of grad school to marry this guy, my Alpha Geek. He wrote some some books.



We had two kids. I can only reproduce in years beginning and ending in "1." I was a virgin until 1972. You figure out how old they are.

I lived in Melrose, Maryland for 8 years, and then we moved to Uniontown, Maryland for the next 19 years. Unfortunately, my husband only lived there 18.5 years. I used to work for HOMES, then I worked for some idiots in Hunt Valley (no link, I'm still steamed they laid me off), some idiots in Baltimore (I still hate business cards to this day), and a place that fired me for getting pneumonia and hospitalized. Then I went to work for a company that had a Medicare contract. I started as a secretary and became a technical editor. Then another company got the contract but I kept my job as a technical editor, although they did make me answer telephones for a time. I hate answering telephones. Now I work as a technical editor, but not on a Medicare contract.

I used to be a feminist activist. I'm still a feminist but my knees aren't up to marching anymore. I used to hang out on Usenet in fat-acceptance and a television fan group (Homicide: Life on the streets and Roseanne) but got tired of being stalked by trolls so I stopped. I still read the usenet group on comic strips. I suspect my favorite cartoonist might have named a minor character after me as a shout-out. Or maybe not.
If you've never met me, you probably mispronounce my name. It's eh-vah hwhit-lee. Not ee-vah. Not aay-vah. And certainly not White-lee. I usually go to the World Science Fiction Convention, where we do not wear pointed ears. (Well, most of us don't.) We discuss books. Interested in hearing more? Go here. Some Saturdays I go to BSFS. I have another blog at evawhitley.livejournal.com. My porn name is Herman 16th Avenue.