All aboard the ANGST train, ladies and gents!

[BreweryYardRat]

A friend of mine, who I've had a major (unmentioned) crush on since I met her, just got engaged to her boyfriend.

Another friend, who I'm also crushing on, knows about my crush on her (because I told her), and is emphatically uninterested, because she's "looking for someone more like her father." Also, she's graduating next week, going off to grad school, and I'll never see her again.

A scrawny little dude who I want to make out with is a prude.

Anyone I know who's intelligent enough for me to be interested in is either taken, a lesbian, or not interested in me. The only three girls (I don't go too much for guys, the one above is an exception) I can think of who I could even have a chance of coaxing into being interested in me are far away.

One's in Maine, one's in Georgia, and #3's over in Orlando, an hour and a half away, and I have no car.

I have no social skills, which means no party invites, and my current longest-lasting relationship totaled 2 weeks before I broke it off-she was crazy clingy, and looking for something long-term, which I have no experience with.

To top it all off, school's killing me right now (finals), and I'm seriously worried about 2 of my classes (the other 3, I'm doing fine-a B and what will be an A or a B). If I flunk either class, I'm going to have to either 1: break the news to my dad with my therapist present to protect me, or 2: cut off one of my pinky fingers to divert the inevitable explosion. Dad's got problems with repressing his anger over everything until something really provokes him, and he directs a couple months of stored anger at the provocation. If I flunk a class, I'm afraid that will be catalyst enough that he'll beat the shit out of me (something he's never done before, by the way). By chopping a finger off, I might be able to divert his wrath.

Mind you, I'd much prefer option 1 (talk it out with my therapist there), but I'm afraid that if I flunk either/both classes, the school might notify him before I can get an appointment scheduled.

[flvegan]

1. Someone needs a cheer-up trip to Ybor

Nail those two classes...you can do it!

[BreweryYardRat]

8. I'm going to do what I can. Of that I assure you.

And I will be going to Ybor post-exams.

[aljones]

2. here have a beer, you need one

:beer:

:toast: I'll drink with you...

[billyskank]

3. I've been riding it long already

The only people who are 'interested' in me are all thousands of miles away, and all ineligible: either they are married, or gay. Nobody who is actually in a position to say "YES! I will take you!" and actually DO it would touch me with a barge pole. From this I surmise that I am more a receptacle of fantasies than an actual object of anybody's genuine desire. I am single more than five years now, and have no reason to expect anything to change in the next five, or ten. I feel my youth slipping away, wasted.

Angst enough for ya? ;)

[aljones]

4. you need a beer too!!!

:beer:

[irish.lambchop]

5. Hit the books, seawolf!

Forget crushes, dating, worrying, dad, finger chopping - there's plenty of time for all that after your finals!

[rockymountaindem]

6. I'm there too

I've had a crush on a girl from home for some time, but since we go to school far apart I can only see her over breaks. Add to that the fact that her dad forces her to take whatever job she can find (last summer she worked 14 hour days at a restaurant) and that her family always comes up with more work for her to do at home, and I think I've seen her for a grand total of less than eight hours in two years. So, at least you're not alone in these conundrums, but I can't offer you any advice.

[aljones]

7. Have a beer, I have everyone else on too!!

:beer: