STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

premise - last summeri in Italy I met a really realli nice guy - L. We have been talking since then, and I really like this guy.

Now, he was planning to come to the US to visit me next Jan, so that we don't have to wait until I go back to Italy, next April, to see each other again.

Well, he just e-mailed me that some crazy expenses came up, he has to pay quite some tax money to have his diploma in journalism, so he won't have the money to get here. They just changed the law, and this just came up. He's going to make sure this applies also to people who are already in the process of getting their diploma, but knowing how they do things there I am pretty sure it is. He's pretty angry and frustrated, and I am too!!!

I called him and said the diploma is much more important than him coming here, so don't worry. And I can think of hundreds of worse things that could happen. But I am still sad I'll have to wait 5 more months to see him. I am seriously counting the days!

Done. Thanks for letting me vent.