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I'm Heather Mina, 25-year-old programmer extraodinaire. Well, not really extraordinaire, but I try to make myself sound interesting sometimes. Around these parts, I'm known as HeatherFeather (why? because it rhymes.) and Furface (due to an accident involving tesseracts and large amounts of Yuengling's Black and Tan, a good dark beer guaranteed to put hair on your chest, or in my case, all over) or any combination of the two.
I write mostly science fiction and fantasy. I have finished a few
short stories, and outlined a novel. These days, between work and school and my family, I have mostly written sucky poems. Someday I hope to be able to write sucky poems as good as Mikey.
Work? I write imaging programs (scanning documents, touching them up, viewing, and printing them) for Windows PCs for a small company in Virginia Beach. School? I'm currently a student in George Washington University's Master of Engineering Management program. Family? I have a wonderful husband, Rob, and two adorable children, Robbie (3) and Becca (2).
I'm a very cheerful kind of person, and have even been accused of perkiness. I like the early morning, chocolate, strawberries, good music, good books, and good friends like the people here in the coffeeshop.
And I don't start food fights either, no matter what they say. That was Adrian's doing. Entirely. So quit blaming me. :-)
Since I seem to be in an extraordinarily social mood (for
me) today, I guess I can do this (even though it's kind of
embarrassing :)). I'm an aging Vietnam Combat Vet, a
Mechanized Platoon Leader that survived the 68 Tet Offensive
to come home to the strange new world. Had a whole bunch
of jobs and such, all short term, always moving on. Along the
way picked up a degree from the University of Michigan in
Psychology, and finally ended up back in the Military (if the
national guard really counts as military :)) at the tender young
age of 39. Landed me in Saudi Arabia as a hospital
administrator during Operation Desert Storm, then back to
the VA when I came home. Now I'm an MP in my 50s and
spend 3 mornings a week in group and individual counseling
related to PTSD and the rest of the time trying to keep caught
up at work and home where I occassionally admit to a wife
and four kids (all married and on their own 'cept for the wife
I guess) and a puppy and six grandchildren which includes a
eight year old who's been watching all the Tiger Wood's hype
and wants me to teach him how to play golf this weekend.
A characteristic of PTSD is this steady stream of intrusive
thoughts and feelings (amoungst other things) that can drive
you crazy :) if you don't do something with them so I tend
to write the images and feelings out though sometimes it
comes out somewhat strange and embarrassing but it's
better than not writing them out. Anyway I've been doing
this for a while. Used the short stories and poetry to pick
up change from contests and such a long time ago, but
mostly write to get through a mood and back to however
close to normal I happen to be at the time. Writing is
good therapy.
(-: (Lefty smiling)
I'm one of the rusty, dusty coffeehouse folk, the ones who've
been around awhile. We pretend to know a lot, but most of the
time we're learning from the new folk. I sit at a back table, often sharing a pot of Earl Grey with Vicky, my east-coast clone. I've met Ike, Julie and Anitra in real life, and hope to add to that
as time goes on. I'm 39, born on April Fool's Day. I live in the Pacific Northwest, although I was born in Southern California and grew up in Southeast Alaska. I have a husband that
I love and adore, even on the days I don't like him very much.
I am a writer of nonfiction, mostly articles about wild birds,
which is why Wolfpuppy gave me the nickname "Aviella," which
he translated as "watcher of the winged ones." Lani added
"Terriphim," which was translated to "quasi-angelic" -- so
my full nick is "Aviella Terriphim." I may use either, both,
or none, depending on my mood. I'm dabbling in personal essay
and studying creative nonfiction because I have heard the
world speak to me through birds, flowers and trees and I've
been trying very hard to tell others what I've learned from
them.
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