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I just need to vent a bit, so please bear with me.

My life is completely crazy and hectic right now, and generally in positive ways. I recently got a management promotion at work and am moving out of state at the end of the month and am earning my MBA degree online simultaneously. It's really taking its toll!

I'm currently in the middle of finals. My term ends this Sunday and I'm playing catch-up. I got very sick this past December and got very behind in school. It drives me up a wall, because I'm usually very good at time management, and hate playing catch-up up to the last days of the term. By the way, the new term starts this Monday. And did I mention that I'm still working 40 hours a week? Oh, and I need to get my stuff packed, find a place to live, deal with leases and bills, transfer my new accounts, and get everything squared away at my new job.

This all has equated to late nights and early mornings. It'll slow down a bit next week with the start of the new term, but it's nuts!

In the midst of all of this, I'm having some issues with one of my very good friends. She's several years younger than me, and might as well be my little sister and is going to school out of state. We've both been through a lot together, and her support would mean a lot to me right now. However she's fallen in with a very troubled group of people. They're all good kids, but have a lot going on emotionally and in their families, and it's having a toll on my friend and she's regressed emotionally. She can't really look past herself right now and support me, or even really be happy for me right now. At the same time she's trying to push her problems onto me so that she doesn't have to deal with them. I understand logically what's going on with her, but it hurts. I have so much on my plate right now that, at least until Sunday, I'd like the support of my best friend, but I'm not getting it.

I just needed to vent a bit there. I'm not worried about getting through everything, finishing the term off, and moving (it wouldn't be the first move; I'm old hat by now). I just have a lot going on all at once is all and needed to get it off my chest.