I HATE not training

I'm disgusted with myself. I haven't lifted in 8 days straight - irritating stuff like life and work got in the way, and consequently I've began to feel some effects of not training.
The most obvious and unusual one is that I start to get a lot more aches and pains - I'll wake up with my lower back, hips and shoulders killing me, and I've just effectively done a complete deload. AND I'M ONLY 18 YEARS OLD. I've got no excuse for this. I'm still not even strong.
I guess that when I'm regularly training, I'm like a well-oiled machine, everything works fine. As soon as I stop for a while, shit gets rusty and I start aching like a 50 year old. I need to get a better schedule - training at school takes the piss.

Music-wise, here's a fucking awesome sludge band called Unearthly Trance. These guys just sound the bomb, they are thick, slow and heavy, with killer riffs.
Check out this and 'God Is A Beast', from their album Electrocution, if you have the time. You won't regret it.

In other news, I often train alone. No surprise there, considering there is about as much knowledge of lifting in the school gym as there is about quantum chromodynamics. (i.e. I'm the only one with even a vague fucking idea of what it is).
Though recently I've trained with a couple of guys in quick sessions, and I love to throw down challenges to speed up the training and get in some competition. These always let you push yourself harder than you would, and we're all guilty of slacking off occasionally, taking a few extra seconds rest or (something I don't think I've ever done but see it all too often) skipping sets and reps.
So my point is, if you have someone similarly motivated, try doing your smaller work or assistance with them, and do it as a challenge for some added fun.
Often, a partner can just get in the way on the main movements, especially if they're training different exercises. Unless you're all doing the same thing, e.g. a powerlifting club. Hence why I often train alone - I know what the fuck I'm doing, and I'm not stripping the squat bar so you can do bent over rows between my sets.

Got to go, the Nazi internet filter is about to cut off seeing as it's approaching 11pm, so see thee later.