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Mood: In Love ]
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Currently: Watching my wife file taxes ]
My daughter – due on March 8th – will be named for two of science fiction’s most awesome women, Zira and Nova from The Planet of the Apes.
My wife recounts the story of discovering this excellent name thusly: "It was during one of the Fox Movie Channel’s many ‘Weekend(s) of Apes,’ sometime in November a couple years ago. We tossed around names just for fun, still really undecided about whether we’d ever have kids at all. Zira Nova was one of the best, and we held onto it just in case."
I remember it different: "We realized this was happening, after many months of waffling back and forth about whether to have kids or not, the choice was made for us (we got pregnant even though we were on the pill, we found out later) and we rolled with it. As I perused the extensive dvd selection, tossing out names willy-nilly, I struck on Zira Nova. I had a strong feeling it would be a girl, too."
Smug bastard, wasn’t I?
Now we’re in the home stretch to zero hour. We’ll know more after this week’s doctor appointment (at which the doc and I may try once again to suggest to my wife she should at least consider drugs if the pain is extreme). I’ll try and update again before then, and as soon as I can once the little bun is out of the oven…
Be seeing you!