To Where And Back?

I have been pursuing an "advanced degree", as it's called, for the past three and a half years. This December, I got it. For the decade or so before that, I was drifting. The one constant, I haven't been able to make any real friends since I left the MidWest. (There's a lot more to the story, but I don't feel like telling it right now.) I've tried, I think -- but, something, I don't know what, has changed. Or maybe it's "something s ", plural, have changed. Part of it is me, or maybe all of it it me, I don't know. But, it's not what I want. Tonight I got a phone call from someone I thought was a friend, but he may only see me as a customer. I'll have to straighten it out, when he calls me back. Virtually everyone I have met since coming here, has turned out to be some kind of flake. Except my fellow students. The problem is, I can't talk to them about things that I have to deal with in this part of my life. All I wanted to...

I have been pursuing an "advanced degree", as it's called, for the past three and a half years. This December, I got it. For the decade or so before that, I was drifting. The one constant, I haven't been able to make any real friends since I left the MidWest. (There's a lot more to the story, but I don't feel like telling it right now.) I've tried, I think -- but, something, I don't know what, has changed. Or maybe it's "something s ", plural, have changed. Part of it is me, or maybe all of it it me, I don't know. But, it's not what I want. Tonight I got a phone call from someone I thought was a friend, but he may only see me as a customer. I'll have to straighten it out, when he calls me back. Virtually everyone I have met since coming here, has turned out to be some kind of flake. Except my fellow students. The problem is, I can't talk to them about things that I have to deal with in this part of my life. All I ...