new year?

So, it's only a quarter until seventeen-hundred--meaning that the night time youth-group I'm working with hasn't been open even an hour, and I'm super bored and somewhat sick of being here.
Although I didn't really want to come in today, partly because it's one day of work sandwiched between four days off of work and partly because my partner and two of our closest friends are at home having a good time, I'm glad that I did come in today. There are a lot of youth here, somewhere between thirty and forty, and it's still early. If we weren't open tonight, some of these youth would not have a safe place, or a place at all to go. If we were not open tonight, some of these youth would be at home getting shit from their families, and some of them would be doing their best to try not to sound, look, or act "gay."

There is a new girl here tonight, an eighth grader, who has met a new support group. And there are a couple kids back from their first semesters of school away from home.---more later.