Pear Tree

So, let's get ready for roommate rant number 3, I believe?  Deep breath, and...

I have never in my life met such an arrogant, narcissistic, pain in the ass. Never before have I met another person that could so disregard another human's plight the way that my current roommate can.  Oh, for months I deluded myself into thinking that everything was okay, that it was fine that she didn't get these social niceties, like being quiet, and letting another person sleep when they have only had an average of four hours per night for the past week and a half.  

But she has lived in America now for six years, and I was just deluding myself.  Never before have I met someone who just didn't get other humans on that basic instinctual level that she doesn't.  Now, I am not the best person in the world to be speaking of people who don't understand other people - because, let's face it, I understand very little about human nature and human interactions that it isn't even funny.  I do, however, know very well how to fake it.  I know that when another person is angry, you don't antagonize them, unless I am really itching for a fight - and generally it isn't the verbal kind.  

Let's list all the different ways that Current Roommate is on the verge of driving me to madness, shall we?  

1. Disrespects, on a daily basis, my country.  Bitch, you've been living here for six years; you are taking the citizens test soon.  You are almost American so shut your fucking gob about how terrible America is.  Go back to Bulgaria if you don't like it.  Know your audience, obviously.  When you are around someone who is an American, you don't go around bashing America for the way they treat their elderly, or how rude we are.  Because, let's face it, you aren't exactly the epitome of common courtesy. Especially, as you are saying this, we are eating dinner and you will not look up from your phone. If that isn't rude, then I have no idea what is.

2. Does not know how to apologize.  Keeps me up half the night, then wakes me early the next morning?  No way is she going to apologize for that.  And if I dare to be mad about that, then that is just me being a stupid American, isn't it?  The few times she has apologized, it was condescending and mean.  So you know what? Fuck you too. 

3. No time management skills.  This one really gets my blood boiling.  She goes out, has a good time, is on Facebook every chance she gets, yet complains when she can't go to bed early because she hasn't started her work until 12 at night.  And then, says things like, "Oh, I'm so jealous that you get to have fun!" or "You're so lucky you don't have as much work as I do."  Seriously?  I work all afternoon and evening to get things done early so I can have some free time.  It isn't my fault you are a fucking idiot.

5. Got picked for the RA job that I desperately wanted.  Now, this isn't really her fault - we are a liberal arts college and I am a white girl from Maine; obviously I'm not going to get the job when there are foreign students applying.  What pisses me off, however, is that she will not let it go.  She keeps making offhanded comments about all this stuff she has to do, and how excited she is about having a single, and whatnot.  Especially when she told me, when she was applying, that she was going to spend very little of her time in the room and was not going to answer the door after 12 at night. 

Aaand, breathe.  I need to gather my thoughts a little more for the rest, and I just really needed to bitch about it because I was getting a little manic, unfortunately.  And there is still a month left to the term.  This will be interesting.

This Year's A Party

So I have a tentative idea for this year's NaNo.  It will be a humour/romance story, that plays with modern religion.  There will also be the undertones of how people believe only what they want to believe, or trust millennial year old people who aren't the best role models.

Like I said, its tentative.  But it is interesting, and new for me.  If I can just come up with a plot, now, things will be good!

(This is just a short post because I am working on posting once a week.  And I didn't really have a topic in mind as life is quite quiet right now.  Though I celebrated my 19th birthday this week, which is both cool and scary as hell.)

(One last thing - If I didn't like my current roommate right now, I would be planning her murder.  As such, I am just fantasizing her loss of limb.  Or two.)

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.