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Yesterday was a bit of a doozy. I got home from work, and a friend of my sister's showed up right away. I wasn't a very entertaining hostess, but I did my best until my sister got home. It was just awkward because neither me nor my sister's boyfriend knows my sister's friends all that well. Then a couple more of her friends showed up, and we went out to dinner, getting stuck in rush hour traffic in the process. And I found out my sister's boyfriend gets rather angry and frustrated when stuck in rush hour traffic, which is understandable but worrying at the same time. We had a good dinner, though. I love double pan-friend noodles. And we fortunately were on time for our last band concert of the season. We don't start back with band until September, so I'm going to be enjoying my Thursday nights off for a month. Then we all went out for ice cream and then came back to the apartment to play card games. I almost fell asleep on the couch before deciding to just take a shower and go to bed. I didn't sleep well last night, which probably had something to do with it.

While trying to be social, I was also trying to finish this girly shoujo manga a fellow band member had lent me to get it back to her before tonight. Obviously I failed at both tasks. Fortunately she ended up saying I could keep it until the next time we met and even brought me the next volume. I feel bad that the only manga I can lend her is Azumanga Daioh since she says she doesn't like series with magic in them, and, well, that's what I like/own. This one she lent me, Hot Gimmick, draws you in, but it's...argh. I know that the heroine is a "realistic" teenage girl, but I still want to smack her and tell her that she needs to grow a spine and that a guy touching you inappropriately is NOT appropriate, even if he does have some sort of power over you. I'm not very far into it, but right now it seems like her guy choices are an old friend who is a model and acts very kindly toward her but apparently (she doesn't know this) is using her for revenge for something (I'm guessing right now that something happened between his mom and her dad), the son of the most prestigious couple in the apartment complex who is very cruel to her but apparently likes her (he found out her sister was almost pregnant and is holding that over her head to make her his slave - I guess if his mom found out, her family could get kicked out of the apartment complex), her brother (who is apparently not related to her), or her geeky friend. Why am I reading this again? It's like the fascination one gets from watching a car accident or some such phenomena, I guess...

I'm also kind of worried about my sister...she's decided to quit her job without having anything definite lined up, and I think she might be quitting school as well. I hope she realizes someday that she's never going to be 100% content with any job or career and that sometimes you just have to make the best with what you have instead of continuously hopping from one thing to another, hoping that the next thing will make you happy. Argh. I'm also worried that she's still paying for her boyfriend every time we go out to eat, among other things. Probably because I've dated a mooch in the past, but still. It worries me. I hope he's a better guy than I think he is.