expecting

One of my co-workers is about to become a father (they’re inducing tomorrow, a little earlier than they had planned for), and we’re, of course, all terribly happy for him and his wife. For the child too, I suppose, though I never really think of it that way.

 <robert> i've wondered for a long time what this moment would 
          feel like, and it's nothing at all like i expected

A fair number of friends are expecting kids in the next few seasons, which is affecting my biological clock exactly as you might have predicted, if you’ve been near me and a small child for even scant moments at some point in the past.

6 comments to “expecting”

  1. entered 6 September 2003 @ 2:35 am

    You mean “insatiable hunger”?

    (Your “Remember personal info” button seems not to survive across mozilla invocations. I think it must be setting the cookie badly, since other sites work. Look! Another wheel to reinvent!)

  2. janice
    entered 6 September 2003 @ 9:13 am

    cuteness is a survival tactic. think chameleon. =^)

  3. entered 8 September 2003 @ 4:22 pm

    You do realize that kids don’t come with a “sleep” function, right? It’s kinda like dealing with a system that’s got its runlevels set to a random number generator …

    (soooo geeky!)

  4. entered 8 September 2003 @ 9:30 pm

    Being a recent father myself and one of the nervous type I must tell you the waiting is much nicer than I expected. And then, what you feel for other’s people kids is nothing compared to what you feel for yours :) screwed up crontabs n’all

  5. entered 9 September 2003 @ 11:55 am

    (The remember-personal-info thing WFM, and I haven’t changed it at all from the stock MT install.)

  6. entered 9 September 2003 @ 9:29 pm

    (The remember-personal-info thing won’t survive, of course, if you’re using Firebird or Moz and have the cookie settings set to not persist cookies across browser invocations …)