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"I'm a Star Trek Voyager fan, which
I guess is pretty geeky. My favorite characters are Tuvok and
the Doctor. I think it is hilarious how they state the obvious
in such practical, technical terms— it reminds me of some of
the writers I've worked with. I happen to live in New Zealand
[and yes, I am clearly the envy of anyone with a penchant for
dangerous sports and living life in the EXTREME slow mode]. I
live there with my attack cat, Daphne a.k.a. 'The Shark,' so
named for her purr that sounds EXACTLY like the theme from
'Jaws.' With us lives my dog, Beatrice a.k.a. 'The Black Plague
of Humanity,' who is clearly punishment for something terrible I
must have either done or helped to perpetrate in a previous
life. I have been here more years than I care to count. If I had
to guess, I spend about 3% of my time teaching and 7% of it
learning, 20% of my time I spend working religiously on my novel
about the influence of classical skepticism on the aesthetics of
the early post modern period of fast foods entitled, 'Can I Have
My Ball Back?'; and the vast majority of my time running after,
serving, and otherwise trying to please, appease, and
accommodate all of my egomaniacal associates at UPBEAT
Entertainment News Syndicate for which I rarely receive any sort
of gratitude. I am an amateur enthusiast of various odds and
ends of New Zealand/Maori culture although I choose to remain
completely aloof about my more recent discoveries." The daughter
of two professors, Atamarie Reka attended two colleges, worked
as an assistant to a live performance artist, who often
pretended to be dead, and designed an offbeat line of
horrifyingly ugly floor lamps before beginning a lucrative
career with UPBEAT. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand where she
is a manic collector of classic Barbie dolls and Star Trek
memorabilia. Reka recently graduated from college, and will
probably be paying for it for the rest of her life. While in
school, with delusions of grandeur that she was actually funny,
she wrote several columns under an "assumed" name. In her free
time, she enjoys learning contortionist-like moves from strip
clubs, and ogling hot young sailors in uniform. More than
anything else, however, she enjoys teasing her fellow geeks… for
who better to pick on a socially awkward, and terminally
virginal sub race of people than one of their own? However, the
vast majority of those she mocks with reckless abandon have yet to ascend to her own
level of geekdom.
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Online Editor