Remind me not to get Rachel Lucas pissed off at me.  I don’t know the facts behind the situation she’s describing, but I know how she feels.  If she had comments going, I’d commiserate with her there, but I also understand how difficult the last semester of college can be (in my case I took 19 hours, 3 of which were for a project class that took every spare minute, and worked part time in the computer center).

I have a friend who is in a domestic abuse situation and I worry about her.  I’d like to grind the little bastard she’s seeing into the ground, but I keep it to myself most of the time because I don’t see anything I can do about it (at least without landing myself in jail).  It’s horribly frustrating to sit by and watch someone stay in that kind of situation (it’s even more frustrating to know that you can’t help until she is ready for it).  So far it appears to be mostly mental (which is bad enough), but I worry that it will escalate to serious injury.