Update: Roommates

Roommate number two could very well be worse than roommate number one. 

First and foremost - she's foreign.  Not that I have anything at all against foreign students, my best friend on campus is foreign.  Its just that this particular foreign kid seems to not understand social niceties or common courtesy.  At all.

At first, it was cute.  This little Asian kid giggling and making quiet fun.  But then her little quirks began to add up.  She's ask me to carry back an obserd amount of food, daily.  She stays in the room all day.  Every day.  She only ever leaves to go to class, then she's right back up in her bed.  I can't bear it, I'm going crazy.  She has her computer on all day - loudly - and she is up until 4 in the morning making these really awful cough-nose-exhale thing, every three minutes like clockwork.  Then she takes naps all afternoon, so I can't make any noise, or turn on the lights.  Because I have common courtesy, I go to the library, or the common room, or anything, really, just to be nice.  But does she afford the same concessions on me, when I got to bed at like 1 or 2 in the morning?

She doesn't shower often - its been at least three days now, and she doesn't appear to realize she has acquired a stench.   She wears the same clothes everyday and hasn't changed in weeks I believe.  She even wears the same outfit to bed - without doing laundry.  That's the same clothes in the day and at night.  And I can't say anything, because obviously I need to make this one work.

But it isn't working.  She turns the heat way up, without consulting me at all - even though I have flammable things on the heater and the air becomes so dry that I can't even breathe.  Its already seriously dry here.  You don't need to make it any more so.

This one isn't so socially unacceptable so much as annoying as hell.  When I am sitting at my desk, obviously trying to study, with headphones in, she asks me a question.  Every five or so minutes, she asks me a grammar question, or she says something about how "she's so confused".  So I can't get into a rhythm in my work, having to stop every few minutes.  And she likes to play music.  Loudly.  From crappy speakers that sound awful.

And the creme de crop, the icing on the cake, is what she decides is proper guest etiquette.  Apparently it is okay for her to invite people over - guys, mostly, people she is trying to get something from - at any time of night, even if I am in my pajamas, even if I am in bed, sick.  And apparently it is okay that they just stay there, not even fucking talking.

Apologies.  I am still a little sore over thing one.

Continuing, she also seems to think it is proper etiquette to invite someone over, with whom I have a very rocky past with, and with whom I get VERY annoyed with, VERY quickly.  And yet she seems to think it is completely fine.

So I HAVE to leave, at least every two weeks to go home, or I will probably kill her.

Unfortunately, I am seeing no other alternative. 

I shall endeavour to survive till midterms are over, and will be able to go home for a long, relaxing, roommate-free week.