The narrator complains that he's tired and that he hasn't been able to play much of a game of basketball. He wants to go to the ocean, but his mom won't let him go. He tells his mom that he doesn't care if she's a girl or not, because he'll get better at it over time. He also complains that his sister keeps comparing him to her, and that his parents and grandma keep nagging him that he has to succeed in school because he is the only boy of the family. He's not happy about that. He says that he used to be happy being a boy, and now that he says that, he'd rather be a boy than a girl. He asks if he can hit him again, and his mom tells him to whack him with a recorder. The narrator says that his mom has cut off all of his ties with his grandparents, and he blames that on his grandma. He goes on to say that his daily routine has been the same since he left school, except that one thing has changed: he can play basketball.