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Incidentally, my father hired me to work in his shop. Of course, I say "hired", which implies money, but there is none involved. So really, it's just enslavement.
Also, I think I look at my watch too much. Time's already ticking away; it doesn't need me to watch it do so. Pah.
Tonight I am engaged to attend yet another full-blown social dinner at my mother's friend's house, in which I must once again don my "model daughter" facade and chew over topics such as grades, university plans, extracurricular involvement and achievements. I kid you not when I say that each encounter more or less requires me to parrot my CV. I don't know what it is about parents and friends of parents, but there you go. It's my payment for being given a roof over my head, or something.
[04:55PM Update] Hey, today is Independence Day in America.