We have been on our fertility journey for a couple of years so have had a lot of time to think about very important details like what the theme for the nursery is going to be! Those that know me (or have read even one post here) would easily predict Star Wars, Star Trek, Buffy or dinosaurs. Or perhaps lesbian witches (NB: don't view that video if you don't want the beautiful story of Willow and Tara spoiled for you) that travel the Alpha Quadrant in a Corellian YT-1300 Light Freighter searching for vampire dinos?

I like naming things. From my cats Velvet (I was 9 and she was soft!), Sammer (she seemed like a Sam) and Willow (I was a burgeoning lesbian with a certain vampire-slayer sidekick on the mind) to my cars Jean-Luc (was white and bald), Rorge (sounded like a Jetson car), Jango (looked like a blue Mandalorian helmet) and Jedi (a Jetta!), finding the proper name for something has always been very important to me. Indeed, as a palaeontologist, I spent far more time looking into etymology than I did researching the functional morphology upon which my thesis was based.

Nothing is truly official in this era of virtual socialising until it is up on Facebook. So, K and I are now actually expecting a baby!

There is no doubt that our child is going to be a geek (or if she manages to escape that part of her nurturing, she will be a non-geek who is very well versed is geekdom!). To properly start her journey towards geekhood, a pregnancy announcement involving Doctor Who and Star Wars was absolutely necessary. K is a Whovian  and the best birthday gift she has ever given me is Star Wars sheets (nuff said!).