You know how it is, sometimes you just see it all play out, like when your parents throw a big ol’ dinner party with the good china and the store-bought cake for your brother's C in algebra and everyone’s all “ain’t that somethin’” but then your academic scholarship to the state college, a full ride no less, is just… there, and it’s like it never even happened, just another Tuesday and you’re still the one doing the dishes and you think, is this just… how it is?