The Internet predicts that you're a girl! Maybe Alexis Carroll Thye, Bubble. Based on 10 questions like how hairy I am, how fast your heart rate is, several answers involving how I'm carrying you - and although I have little confidence in my answers because I barely look pregnant now, I actually think they're right! I think you're a girl.
Many times this semester during my User-Centered Interface Design class, I sat here half-listening while writing notes to you in the back of my hard-worn spiral notebook. Before you were conceived, I wrote to my childhood friends Trevis and David, asking them to be my children. Perhaps your soul - the eternal part of you that has blessed me with your coming - actually is the same as Mom's or David's. Trevis in my dream seemed very surprised that I am pregnant so you must not be his next lifetime. He did seem very happy, though. :o) Whoever you were last time around, you'll be YOU this time!! And whoever you are, I am SO HAPPY you want me and your Daddy for parents. It'll be so fun discovering who you are, how you process the mysterious world around you.
I'm listening to groups of really smart graduate students discuss very creative research projects focusing on interface design. It's fascinating to witness the way people think and solve problems. People design for what we care about, and several teams designed great stuff for underprivileged users - helping poor families make healthier choices, helping lenders choose African entrepreneurs to lend $25 to (micro-financing), making text-based encyclopedias accessible to people who can't read. People, all of us, we are fundamentally well-intentioned toward strangers.
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