It's not narrarrator?! My whole life is a lie! -Jodi Kirkner

This is probably the only good blog post I'll ever produce, so if you're looking for something to characterize me, this is your best bet. 

I will personally attest that this one's worth the read. Short of time? Skip past the prompts part.

At Mayor's Youth Council, we all answer a "check-in question" before the meeting. It's a tradition. We love it. They're completely unrelated to anything and really give you a chance to express your unique personality. Here are a few:

1. If you had a racehorse, what would you name it, and why? There's usually a story behind a racehorse's name. Tell yours. This can be something personal or just something clever you thought of. (RACEHORSE NAMES ARE COOL! YOU LIVE IN KENTUCKY! YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS! WATCH THE DERBY!) 

2. What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done? Or experienced, maybe it's someone else's story. Just make sure they're okay with you telling all of us, first. 

3. People can get through their whole childhood, sometimes their whole life without realizing something that everyone else thought was common sense. These types of stories are detailed in a particular NPR documentary that I can't seem to find anymore, but I can give you an example I remember: thinking unicorns are real but extinct (a horse with a horn doesn't sound so far fetched, right? It's just a pony-rhino). Just something you were never told, maybe.

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"It's not narrarrator?! My whole life is a lie!"

Last year, I was innocently typing a script during a group project when I uttered these fateful words. Spell check had corrected my spelling of "narrarrator" to "narrator" and I was thoroughly offended. Of course I could see that it wasn't right the first time, but what is a "narrator"? It was at this point that my good friends, Hye Jee and Cas, burst into laughter. Of course it wasn’t “narrarrator.”

How I had gone my entire childhood, up until my Sophomore year in high school, without realizing this simple fact is beyond me. Keep in mind, I was the narrator in the school play 4 YEARS IN A ROW. Anyone who’s seen a script must know that this means I read that word at least 1000 times between all the rehearsals. It was written before EACH LINE I HAD. Even with my slight dyslexic tendencies, you’d think I would have consciously noticed at least one time.

I think at least a small part of the blame falls on the Kentucky accent I grew up around. A lot of people pronounce narrator with a faint fourth syllable between the first and second. Like, “nar- uh- ray-tor.” Besides that, I guess I just didn’t catch on. My big revelation of high school was the word narrator. It’s still wrong.