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[Astica]

When I applied for the unemployment benefit they had a two week stand-down transition from my studylink allowance where I wouldn't get paid at all. The woman I spoke to said they couldn't pay me anything during those two weeks, but afterwards I could apply for a grant to get rent money to pay back my landlord. Those two weeks came and went, ended up being three without money before I got on the benefit. I called them to talk about the grant, and the woman who answered said I can't apply for it now I have a benefit, and I needed to have applied while I was still without income. Unfortunately the second woman was right, so I now have no means of paying back my rent arrears. She was a real bitch about it, too, and really sounded like she thought I was just trying to rip them off for all I could get. I said that I had $100 saved from what winz had paid me late last week and this week and she kept being all "well you have money now, you'll have to use your savings instead of expecting us to pay it" and I was all "I'm happy to use my savings, but I only have $100 and the rent comes to $290" so she looked at my file and said that I'd been paid more than $290 total over the past week and a half, but didn't seem to consider that I am still paying current rent which is what the money they're currently paying me is going towards. Shitshitshit. I am in trouble. I was worried this would happen since the first woman who told me I had to apply afterwards also neglected to tell me about their 20 day rule for completing my applications, then gave me a final appointment time that would have taken me out of that 20 day zone, until I was able to reschedule for earlier with someone else and my case worker gave me a heads up. I feel like they've deliberately tricked me here and now I don't know what I can do. I'm kind of estranged from most of my family except for my absolutely dirt poor mother and cousins, so it's not like I can even ask anyone for xmas money to pay it. This sucks so far beyond the telling.

[CeeGBee]

It's not quite as dire as your situation as you're in, but we've been getting the same kind
of B.S. from our Social Services office here.  We need to get my dad in a day-program...
get him out of the house and around people beyond just me and my brother during the
day - it'll keep him from going stir-crazy, and free me up to look for a real job.  This sort
of service IS covered under a program administered by our county...

First, their website has about 50 different "application" forms, with virtually no indication
as to which is appropriate for this need.

We found what we believe to be he right form, filled it in and submitted it, and were told
(after a two-week wait) that our application was denied because we needed a "pre-screning"
by a county nurse to verify that the service was needed.  So we made an appointment.....

The nice nurse came out, verified that dad really does need this service, and provided the
required certification.......  but we can't appeal or amend our original application, we need
to submit a whole new one, which we did......

Eight weeks later, having heard nothing, we called to check on the status of our second
application.  They say they never got it.

We can apply again, but the program's set to the calendar-year, so we'd just have to
re-apply AGAIN in two weeks..... (That's assuming we have the right form in the first
place; they were VERY evasive when we tried to get a firm answer on that one...)

[Astica]

That sucks. I wish these people realised just how detrimental their screwing around can be.

[Captain Oblivious]

I went out last night and mixed drinks and now I am so so ill. I can't even drink water

[Miranda.]

Neil has announced that he will do a signing tour for Oceans but that it will be his last so he will do a very big one & even come to the South. I am pumped because I have never gotten to meet him & he is my absolute favorite! Buuuut I am also super bummed because well it is sad news too.

[Indja]

I've got two essays due in on Tuesday, both 3000 words, both on a different Ignatius. And both subjects are pitifully, pathetically under-stocked in both my college library and the big university library - I have 6 books on the Loyola fella, two about religion in Spain in the 16th century, and one - ONE - about the other Ignatius. It's a fucking joke. I know my housemate has a few on the other bloke, but it's fucking shocking how little we have in the way of resources for theology. I might cut a bitch. Or bulk up my bibliographies with atlases and general Christian histories, that's always good in a tight spot. URGH.

EDIT for further ranting - Also, a lot of the stuff on Ignatius of Loyola has a shit-ton of untranslated Spanish in, which is majorly unhelpful. I mean, I can get the gist of it from the context and what the rest of the paragraph says, but I can't quote any of it because I haven't got a damn idea what it says. And that essay's pissing me off anyway because it's not a real question - we just have to do a 'critical analysis' of his Spiritual Exercises, which I mean, what the fuck? The other one is pretty similar to the Pliny essay from earlier in the term, but this one is just a cunt smeared in shit with sprinkles on top.

[buttercup.]

That shooting in CT. My nephew lives there, and I had a heart attack when I first read that it was an elementary school. It's horrid anyway, but those five seconds thinking it was my nephew's school have made me miserable. Now I relate to the news and I even cried a bit already. Is it so awful that I wanted to be detached and not think about all those kids, alive and dead? And how horrible our society is?

Ugh.

[Miranda.]

http://ht.ly/g6WPi Disaster Distress Helpline

[Agonistes]

waking up to BAN GUNS all over facebook.

[N.U.]

Not me, but This guy's day was ruined by an over-reactive press: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e42_1355512817

WTF!? Media outlets declare the wrong Ryan Lanza as the shooter. He responds.

Seriously fucked up.

[Faloleen]

Press-people are a bunch of dilettantes. Poor guy.

[Marionette26]

One of my best friends was checked into (or checked herself into?) a mental hospital last night. I don't know why. I don't know what happened. I haven't had a real conversation with her in two or three weeks. She texted me and my other best friend right before she went in to let us know.
I was lying awake wondering what went wrong this time, and wondering if she would've been alright if my friends and I still talked. Things would've been different, at least. She might have held out longer before losing it.
Are we even friends if we don't talk anymore? Or are we just people who love each other and have a lot of history? I don't think I can call her or my other best friend my best friends anymore, and I don't know what to call them.
But I do love them. Even if they're not my friends.
And I feel like I've let them down. They probably could've used me. Could use me.
I think I could have helped her cope for a while longer (she really needs good therapy, and I'm not that, but I'm a good bandage). I'm not sure, with everything between us, I can help my other friend much, but I can at least listen.
And I'm not there and I don't contact them. If they call, I listen, but there's a wall (especially with him). And I'm not what I could be. And I know why, and I know I have the right.
But I miss them. And I love them. And I feel like I could have helped her some, and I can't believe she got to this point (again) without me realizing it.

[imaginary friend]

if she needs therapy that bad, better sooner than later.

[Astica]

if she needs therapy that bad, better sooner than later.

Agreed. Can you visit her there?

[Savannah]

One of my best friends was checked into (or checked herself into?) a mental hospital last night. I don't know why. I don't know what happened. I haven't had a real conversation with her in two or three weeks. She texted me and my other best friend right before she went in to let us know.
I was lying awake wondering what went wrong this time, and wondering if she would've been alright if my friends and I still talked. Things would've been different, at least. She might have held out longer before losing it.
Are we even friends if we don't talk anymore? Or are we just people who love each other and have a lot of history? I don't think I can call her or my other best friend my best friends anymore, and I don't know what to call them.
But I do love them. Even if they're not my friends.
And I feel like I've let them down. They probably could've used me. Could use me.
I think I could have helped her cope for a while longer (she really needs good therapy, and I'm not that, but I'm a good bandage). I'm not sure, with everything between us, I can help my other friend much, but I can at least listen.
And I'm not there and I don't contact them. If they call, I listen, but there's a wall (especially with him). And I'm not what I could be. And I know why, and I know I have the right.
But I miss them. And I love them. And I feel like I could have helped her some, and I can't believe she got to this point (again) without me realizing it.

If you still feel like they're your friends, well then they're your friends.

Sometimes life makes us take different paths, but it doesn't matter if we take separate paths as long as we aim to go to the same place.

I really don't like putting the blame on life or fate in every single problem, but this friendship-distance issues bother me a lot these days and i really can't see how to keep in touch with mine as we have grown so apart because of the necessities.

But in the end of the day, i know i still love them, i still care for them.

It's never too late Mari. Everybody can be a fair-weather friend, what really matters is that to be there for your friends when the weather is foul. And even if you can't make it to there, your phone-call will make her remember she's always in your thoughts.