<p>Artichoke: Glad you're back. You seem to like screen names relating to food. :)</p>
<p>Just one other perspective: My DS (whom you know, or you think you know) is having an extraordinarily tough term. He's taking three Killer Courses and, in retrospect, chose poorly. I keep telling him to take a deep breath; the term is XX% over already! (the XX depending on where we are on the calendar--) My point is that you may simply be going through a "bad patch," and every term things are different. Winters in Hanover can be brutal -- you go to class, to work, on your "dates" with BF, to the newspaper -- and you may feel kinda buried in the snow. </p>
<p>BTW -- perhaps your desire for more friends means that maybe the BF isn't the be-all-and-end-all for you. It may be comforting to have him, and I'm not suggesting throwing the baby out with the bath water, but apparently he's not everything you want/need. Time to add something else to the mix.</p>
<p>As you already know, which is why you posted in the first place.</p>