G.H.
So, you two have to be separated for some time... that's a sad news.
I know how it's hard to replace the live contact with phonecalls and webchats...
I don't know what to say here but to be calm and strong. She'll come back eventually.

That's horrible...you know you have my support G.H., any time you need to chat or something.

I need to do some more ranting...

I've been incredibly stressed lately. Incredibly. Stressed. School, work, school, work, a continuous back and forth with no happy medium, only weekends to separate them. My grades are nowhere near as good as they should be - and every time I find myself with free time to catch up on some late work, I feel fatigued and want nothing more than to rest my shell-shocked mind. At the same time, I don't want to quit my job because I know I'm going to need the money soon, especially once I start driving - and all things considered, I lucked into a job with good hours. But that doesn't mean it hasn't been just breaking me apart.

Over the past two months I've been trying to get my life sorted out, and I think I mentioned something about that a few weeks ago here. Honestly I can't remember - my activity here has shrunk a lot lately I know simply because of my busy schedule and the fact that it leaves me with little to say. On top of my stress from school and work I still have my relations with people to deal with - and they haven't been doing so well at all lately. It seems like I'm falling back to the point where I can barely express myself to other people who call themselves my "friends", because when I sit down at the end of the day and try to explain my frustration, most of them just tell me to "chill out".

I swear the next person who tells me to "chill out" I'm going to smack. Other people tell me "Oh this is just typical teenage angst, you'll get over it." I have one thing to say to those people - Piss off. I'm a firm believer in "Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in their shoes" - and that's what some of these people need to do. They don't know what I deal with on a daily basis, both internally and externally. I've been trying to revive relations with an old friend of mine lately, she hasn't been too receptive. Tried explaining my stress to another friend, and all I get is "dude chill out". I swear it's fucking impossible to find an ounce of sympathy from some people you consider your "friends". So all I can do is sit here and post these damned rants.

Again, as I mentioned, I'm trying to turn my life around - have been trying. I think I'm making progress, but from time to time I have nights like this one where I just completely fall back into my old self and let loose with a flood of pent up negativity.

Not to mention I think my eyesight's getting worse - I can barely read the board in class now, I may need to get glasses of some kind - and my body constantly aches. I get frequent headaches and stomachaches. It feels like both my mind and body are cracking under the weight of physical and mental burdens. Just because I want to do well in school and make my own money, and because I actually give a damn about what other people think.

I have nothing more to say.

GH
Let me say that a lot of people have similar problems. And not because of the crisis that Dag mentioned, I swear. Well, basically they're an adult people, not teens like in your case. So your case is rather weird for me, I could never imagine something similar for myself when I was sixteen. But I know that nothing lasts forever and the matters of your sadness must be ended someway. Well, it's better not to say too much for me about it while standing on rather stable period of my life. So I just can wish you a good luck to defeat all the problems, it must be happened someday. As for myself I passed my hard period not so long ago. Of course, I'm using the word "hard" concerning to me at first place.

GH, I have talked to you on msn before and I'm sorry if I was one of those people trying to give you advice...But it's all I felt I could do to be of any help....
Next time I'll just be there to listen if you need it..

Anyway I'm sorry for this but main reason I'm typing here is because I have a bit of a Uni problem that is rather serious...

I had an original plan to move in with my old friend Emily and her two friends Laura and Kate...
However today (of ALL days, the night before I go to Amsterdam and have just waved my boyfriend goodbye), has told me plans have changed and is DEMANDING I give her a yes/no answer, putting me under a lot of unwanted pressure that I feel is unnecessary...
Laura decided because Emily didn't get back to her straight away on homing issues she has put herself down to moving in with other people instead...
SO, the NEW plan is this, Emily, me, Kate and Kate's two friends who we haven't even met...
However she said they were nice and hard working...but bad as I feel saying this, I can't completely trust that....It's been rather difficult as it is with noisy flat mates and I wouldn't want these housemates I don't know to be really loud too...or messy even...

However Emily has agreed and is now trying to force me to say yes pretty much now....

Now, I can't help but feel this is somewhat...er...stupid. Emily worries a lot but really, does go over the top.  She is convinced everyone is ahead of us and already looking at houses to get the best offers first...  Apparently ALL the students in her accommodation are thinking about it or have made definite plans...We were told, by the university NOT to worry about this till February 09 and these rumors happen every year and we've been assured to just ignore them, and not panic cos most landlords don't really put the house offers up till next year.....

Anyway guess you can say I'm feeling rather stressed and under pressure from this and have been told I have to decide by the end of next week now...So least I was given (By Kate this is), a bit of time, but Emily's nagged me a lot this evening over this decision.  Now I will be away tomorrow till Sunday (1am), so really, this just gives me ONE week to think/talk this over...but who knows that in the future I'll make different friends and have different options available to me next year or later on?

Gah, stress

SimpReal
They are f*cking bastards... but they are not alone, throughout all the world, employers keeps being bitches towards their employees. I know some really horrible stories here, in my country, too. It just looks like in Italy, they feel even more unpunished than in other countries... if that can be possible.
I'm asking you though, to act legally, those people are just ass-lickers themselves, they don't deserve your anger. Bite them by defending your rights in the court, but no other way. Please?

I'm sorry I cant give any advice on the world of work or anything like that, I've never experienced it. If I did try to help you it would be nothing more than my imagination and, judging by the lack of art from me lately, I wouldnt trust it...

But... Those guys are only assholes because they're unhappy with life, its a plaque, please try not to get infected by it. You can be mad but, dont become one of them.  Your a nice guy, better than they'll ever be.
Just, good luck man.