Julia

i think it was I who started this rumor at work,
i dont really remember why, how or when
maybe it was a joke i dont remember
but it's becoming harder to play
the role of a married father-to-be

the Word out is that i am married and having my first child next month.
it was kinda fun to play mind poker with a couple of employees but yesterday i was kinda put in a corner.

and somehow made it out.

cheryl is on register and is pregnant.
....haha
cheryl is pregnant on register
........well that didnt go very far..

alex said "cheryl, tell me a story"
someone in the back said
"how'd you get knocked up"
"haha"
cheryl then goes
"tell william about the birds and the bees?"
haha....
maybe i do dress like a child.
i dont act like one.
well....
anyway its not important
(yea it is)
(william this isnt part of the story)
(OK, fine)

then alex says
"actually william's wife is pregnant!"
uh oh.
"really?!"
i brought Hemingway to a Shakespear conference
i wore my Hanna Montana shirt to a Wolfmother concert
"uh yeah"
then cheryl started the interview
i felt like how Bush might have felt trying to explain Iraq
"is it a boy or girl?"
my wife? "a giiiirrrl??"
"the baby silly"
"o yes, a girl"
"when is she due?"
"2 months, october 28"
"so, next month?"
"wow, yes! i guess so"
so "we" are going to name "her" Julia, and "we" have her crib set up, and it is going to be a natural child birth but i think my "wife" will cave and beg for the epideral after serveral hours.
im lucky i knew some baby stuff.

so now, just about everyone thinks i will be a father in a month.

what's interesting is, as i was playing this role i kind of wished it was true.
i mean, i wanna do other stuff first, but
it felt good saying that i was starting my family,
that i was going to have a child.