Not yet, of course. I've got a fair amount of living to get in before I get settled.

It seems that women have their maternal urge so as to balance out men's - because being a father seems to be the greatest thing in the world.

Well, mostly if you have a boy. Maybe if you had a girl.

I like the idea of having a son, I really do. As nerdy as I am, as, well, sort of gay as I can be. As lazy, as slothful... there's nothing like the image of being able to throw around a baseball. Of sitting around watching action movies or of driving around in an SUV. Of ordering pizza with dirty, nasty kids.

I can imagine it being disappointing. I can imagine there being nothing but sloth, or there being too much enthusiasm. Maybe eventual disappointment. But to me, I think, to be the parent of someone 6-12? That's the most fun. I've got plenty of life to live before that, but I'd give up all my oddball personality quirks to just be that perfect image of masculinity - dad. Which, I think, is the only thing that could drive me that far.

I get why parents do it. And I'm just so young.
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