My Nephew J___… well, let’s call him HockeyBoy, because anyone who lives with us for 6 weeks deserves a full fledged nickname in my journal, is staying with us for 6 weeks. He’s about halfway through his tenure while he is slave labor<\/strike> interns for Georgia Shakespeare.<\/p>\n
HockeyBoy is largely reputed to be a typical slacker teenage, and he is more or less about what I was at that age, which I assumed included being oblivious to current events.<\/p>\n
Yesterday afternoon, we were talking about the smallish sinkhole that has opened up on the street in front of our house.<\/p>\n
HB: It’s not as bad as that sinkhole in Guatemala a couple months ago. Did you see that?<\/p>\n
Me: No, I don’t think I did.<\/p>\n
HB: You didn’t? (pulls a picture up on his laptop). How could you not have heard about this?<\/p>\n
Me: Uh… I don’t know. Maybe I didn’t check the news that day?<\/p>\n
HB: Seriously? This was big news. I can’t believe you missed it. Don’t you read CNN.com or anything like that?<\/p>\n
Me: Well, sure, uh, sometimes. I listen to NPR some mornings. <\/p>\n
HB: Geez. That’s weak.<\/p>\n
Me: So… you read cnn.com regularly?<\/p>\n
HB: Nah. I had to do a current events report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Nephew J___… well, let’s call him HockeyBoy, because anyone who lives with us for 6 weeks deserves a full fledged nickname in my journal, is staying with us for 6 weeks. He’s about halfway through his tenure while he … Continue reading