Suburban Renewal
“There were better paid, more interesting and innovative positions elsewhere, but I chose my hometown. It wasn’t because I was tired of the commute, but that I worried about being away from home.
After the summer shock in California, Nate continued to feel empowered somehow by doing exactly what he wanted whenever he wanted. Especially if it scared us, annoyed us, embarrassed us. I couldn’t tell how much of his behavior was normal teenage rebellion, how much of it was following the example of hi...s paw-paw or how much was actually a genetic predisposition to be a slimy, low-life snake.
The last was a postulate that I never uttered aloud. Nate’s genes were our genes, and although he looked like a throwback to Floyd Braydon, we had to believe that there was more of us in him than his grandfather.
He still spent way too much time sitting in front of the computer. I talked to one of the Computer Studies grad students, who gave me some pointers on monitoring his Internet usage by using a cookie-trail software that could show me every Web site he visited.MoreLess
After the summer shock in California, Nate continued to feel empowered somehow by doing exactly what he wanted whenever he wanted. Especially if it scared us, annoyed us, embarrassed us. I couldn’t tell how much of his behavior was normal teenage rebellion, how much of it was following the example of hi...s paw-paw or how much was actually a genetic predisposition to be a slimy, low-life snake.
The last was a postulate that I never uttered aloud. Nate’s genes were our genes, and although he looked like a throwback to Floyd Braydon, we had to believe that there was more of us in him than his grandfather.
He still spent way too much time sitting in front of the computer. I talked to one of the Computer Studies grad students, who gave me some pointers on monitoring his Internet usage by using a cookie-trail software that could show me every Web site he visited.MoreLess
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