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Ok ppls - this is the new, better, and updated thread.  It follows on from Angst and Frustrations Galore mk1 & 2.

So, the basic facts.

Saturday & Sunday, Beca was having a huge fight with her parents.

It ended with her father half strangling her, threatening to kill her, telling her it was her fault, and chucking her out.  Her mum was going to sydney for two weeks.

Beca was put on the school bus with only her school books, told she was lucky she was getting out without a slap, and that if she came back, she'd get one.  

I'd convinced her to go to school counserlor - she did.  They talkedto Docs etc.  She spent the night in a refuge, ther ehave been a few dramas, but yeah.  Tuesday she spent the night there as well.  Wednesday she went down by train to sydney.

Her plan is:
Go to sydney, meet up with mother.  
Stay with mother for weeks while in Sydney.
Go backup.
Her mum has promised to help her moveinto a place sh'es found with two other girls who have moved out, about 15kms away.

I've talked to her about my concerns -
(My main concerns are:
1. The fault thing, and the psychologist thing - she can't start thinking its her afult. I'm going to have to be very careful to ensure that.
2. That she never goes bback.  Not even for a day, and accepts no compromises about that.
3. My other concern is that if she goes with her mother, etc. she may come back under the control of her stepfather again... not cool.   )

- and yeah, she's good about them.  THings are starting to go ok.  There'll prob be at least one more big altercation but its ok for the min... *crosses fingers*.  Now we all just catch up on our sleep.  

If you want details, or there are things i've missed etc. - pls ask me, I'll repost them.  And I'll post with updates.

Thank you to everyone for your support.

Ok, this is going to be long.  To some of you it may just seem like whinging, and in the big scheme of things its not that important I spose, but... yeah.  Anyway.  'The story so far...'

This is about a girl.  Some of you obviously want to tune out now.  Thank you.  So...

I met her online, and she lived near me, so we met up.  One thing led to another, we started going out, etc.

Then she moved.  Her parents wanted money to buy some surrounding properties, so they moved to a little town called Premer (hole++) to run a general store.  Its 5 and a half hours away.  So this was back in september.  

For various reasons, we weren't able to see each other, but we were told early December, we'd be able to meet.   We finally get to late November.  Her mother:

"Oh, no, definitely not until the 9th, we're too busy".

About the 8th.  Again, her mother:

"Well, its the harvest season now, sorry, you'll have to wait until early January.  Definitely then."

All throughout this we've both been told various lovely things by our parents including:

"Stop being so selfish"
"Its only a zillioneth of a lifetime"
"Just get over it"
"A few more months doesn't matter"
etc.

You get the point.  We get to January, and her mother is putting off calling, again and again, refusing to give us a date.  My dad has to go away on the 10th, and we were kinda hoping for it being before then, as her mother wanted to meet both my parents.  Her mother's opinion:

"Well why don't we wait until he gets back?"  Because, y'know, as we *(&%#ing told you, my father will be away until the end of Febuary.

So it went on and on like this until monday.  Then we get the killer.  This is a general overview of the conversation between Beca and her mother, excluding the half hour of expletives from the parents...

Her mother and father were discussing 'whether or not Beca was mature enough to stay over at someone's place' (though she's done it **many** times before).

Beca: The reason you're saying that is so you don't have to organise the trip.
Parents:  We don't need our "integrity impugned" (sp?) by a 14 yr old! You can't go visit him until you're more mature.

And... now they won't talk about it AT ALL, and we're left wondering.  We don't know how long its gonna be, its been about 4 months since we last saw each other, so... yeah.  

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Ok, a few weeks ago some idiots got in trouble at school for looking at pr0n.  It was thanks to a friend of mine that the system admins found out - and fair enough, its his job to keep an eye on the computer room.  However, since then they've been targeting my friend and I.  I've had comments posted on my webpage (extremely foul), I've had things thrown, snide remarks etc.  However, yesterday something else happened.

They attacked my laptop.

I stepped outside for a minute in an unsupervised class, and came back in to find a nice large hole in the casing.  It could only have been done by someone belting it with something.  This has voided my warranty, and it lets dust in.  On top of this, the chances of them paying for this are low.  So I'm in a great mood.

Well, we have a bit of a problem at my school.  

At out school, we have several computer rooms of computers, and they all used to have MSN Messenger installed on them.  They were wiped of it, due to abusive conversations going on during class.  However, until a day or so ago, students who brought their own computers in were able to access MSN (ie. Me and my friends).

That was fine.  But now some idiots, thanks to an ex-friend of mine spreading it around, are bringing in their computers and using MSN.  So its been blocked, port blocked.  We suspect that we can fairly easily get around it (if u know what you are doing, which the idiots don't) but if we fail, what are our other options.

Ie. what can you suggest for alternative chat clients, or free (private) forum setting-up

Ok then people, bring it on.  Whats your theories? And if you dare say "There is no point", I will castrate you.  

Ok, this is where I complain about the state of education in Australia, while also enjoying the fact that i can do literally *no* work and get full marks in an HSC course.

First things first.  For all you foreign suckers, the HSC is the test taken at the end of High-School.  A lot of people stress about it.

Now I'm doing 1 subject for the HSC this year; IPT.  Information Processes and Technology.  Its about computers, and well... Information Processes and Technology.

Today, I have an exam for IPT.  I have done nearly *no* study.  And yet I still expect to pass with flying colours.  Why? Because it is ridiculously easy.  Most of it a completely un-computer-literate person could answer.

One of the questions in a sample paper: "What is an email?"

I mean please...  I should now go to the exam soon, and I should study, but I can't be bothered, and as it won't affect my mark... who cares?

Ok, I'm not really sure if this is the right place to put this, but if nessercary i will post it somewhere different.

I have a friend who is a nerd.  He is currently very depressed, due to the fact that he has no life, and spends his whole time in front of a computer, both at school and at home.  So he needs to get out.  However, he also has a problem with his parents; they won't seem to let him go out at all.  He was invited with me and some others to a LOTR movie, and he couldn't come because his parents chucked a psych.  He wants to move out, but he doesn't have enough money.

Now, I'm getting kinda worried cause for example, just the other night he asked me whether there was any point to life.  I'm really hoping he won't commit suicide.  Any suggestions?