And the geek of the year award goes to...

Photo Credit: F. Lewecke via Wikimedia Commons

Why that would be me!

I've kept my inner geek hidden for years, but recently it came to my attention that:

a) suddenly it is cool to be a geek and
b) I'm 30.  I can't be bothered hiding it these days.

When I was 7 years old everybody else was declaring they would grow up to be doctors, nurses, teachers or firefighters.  I, on the other hand, was dead set on becoming an astronomer.

When I was 11 years old everybody else was watching Friends.  I was watching The X-Files and pretending to be Scully.


So now I'm 30.  I've studied science, I'm still studying science and planning on completing my phd in astronomy and I make my living as a freelance science/medical writer.  I'm batcrap crazy about Star Trek, I spend too much money buying my daughter 'bazinga' t-shirts, pyjamas with 'future starship captain' or 'mummy's little Klingon' splashed across the front of them, and I'm also oddly obsessed with buying her plush microbes (Mary the Malaria is her favourite).

I spend my days writing about 3D bioprinting, stem cell research, abdominal surgery procedures and the latest innovative healthcare trends.  I spend my nights either gazing at the stars through my telescope or watching Star Trek or The X-Files, and my weekends are spent going to trivia nights dressed up as Spock/Uhura or dragging my niece along to Comic Con with me.

I'm socially awkward.

I have a not-so-healthy level of contempt for stupidity.

I'm obsessive compulsive about a lot of things.

I get ridiculously angry over really random stuff (stupid kids "dinosaur" stickers which contain Dodo birds led to a rather impressive tantrum on my part).

I prefer my own company, and that of my daughter.

I hate crowds and I'm not a fan of people in general.

Put simply, I'm as geeky as they come.  The thing is though, I love my life.  Like really, really, really love my life.  For the most part, it's a hard concept for people to grasp because it's generally so different to how they live their lives.  But still, I'm lucky to have a wonderful group of very understanding friends who indulge my "quirks" *cough*craziness*cough*.

On that note, I think I'm going to go curl up in bed with some Original Series Star Trek, because that's how I roll ;)