River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

'Safe'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Liese S. - May 24, 2010 4:19:14 am PDT #1276 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Aww, msbelle, I`m sorry.
 
The SO makes a kickass cheesecake but we`ve been so busy it`s been a long time since one was forthcoming.
 
In college, we had dorm rooms with jack & jill bathrooms, so we had a roommate, and then two suitemates, with whom we shared the bathroom. This worked out great if you got along with your suitemates, and some did stuff like move all four beds in one room so there was a sort of living room in the other space.
 
Anyway, my roommate (The one I negotiated with for the right to pursue my eventual husband) got fed up with me spending nights out (this was the result of a stupid freshman curfew policy where if you were even a little late it was better not to come in at all) and decided, with my suitemates, that I`d be happier in another room. But I was bitchy and said, hey, I like my room and I`ve got no problem with you. So if you want to leave, fine, but you`re moving out. Which she did, but my suitemates who were upperclassmen and the RA were then content to make life miserable for me. But I didn`t care because then I had a single room which I`d wanted all along, but couldn`t have as an underclassman. So there, stupid roommate. Who has now facebook friended me but I have hidden because I still can`t stand you.


JZ - May 24, 2010 4:37:15 am PDT #1277 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Oh, msbelle. I can't even imagine. What a terrible, draining way to end the weekend/start the week. All the ~ma you need, in any form you need, to get you through the day today.


Kat - May 24, 2010 4:43:44 am PDT #1278 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

yikes. Scary roommate stories. I wonder if roommate angst is worse now because many kids have never shared a room until they get to college?

I am going through 2 pitchers of iced tea a week at the moment.

That's all, msbelle? that's like 2 days for me but I have become nothing but a walking iced=tea processor.

Also, sorry about the raging. I am sending you whatever vibes I have to hope your day gets better.

I have had 5 hours of sleep and feel like shit. Yay? But this is my week of delayed maternity leave with Grace.

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lisah - May 24, 2010 4:43:57 am PDT #1279 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

My two Freshman year suitemates both had left the dorms by like October. One moved in with her her new boyfriend from BC, the best friend of her boyfriend from home. SCANDAL! The other was kicked out for drug dealing. OTHER SCANDAL! I got the room to myself for the rest of the year.


Jesse - May 24, 2010 4:47:32 am PDT #1280 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When the sophomore year apartment-mate got kicked out, we were excited about not having to share rooms -- the deal was four people in a three-bedroom apartment -- so were really not that friendly when the new girl showed up. Luckily, we did more or less become friends with her...


Jessica - May 24, 2010 4:50:00 am PDT #1281 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My freshman year roommate decided about halfway through the first quarter that her soulmate roomie was next door and that we should swap. At the time it was a PITA but turned out to be a great move since New!Roomie and I became really good friends.


tommyrot - May 24, 2010 4:54:01 am PDT #1282 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My freshman roommate was homophobic asshole who threw things at me and once threatened me with a bow and arrow. A few years later I turned the experience into an article in a college paper on how homophobia affects straight people as well.


Zenkitty - May 24, 2010 4:56:25 am PDT #1283 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Never had a roommate in college. Was very thankful for it, too. It was bad enough without having to deal with Other People In My Space.


Frankenbuddha - May 24, 2010 5:15:18 am PDT #1284 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The only roommate (as opposed to suitemate) I had in college ended up being the only roommate (and, apart from a summer, apartment mate) I had after college. We're still in touch intermittently. As a matter of fact, I should drop him an email.


Gudanov - May 24, 2010 5:17:03 am PDT #1285 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Despite technically I had a roommate all through college, for two and a half years I didn't really. One year my roommate died and I had the room to myself the rest of the year (One, you don't get all As if your roommate dies. Two, I had nothing to do with it, it was that fucktard cancer who done it), the other two years my roommate essentially lived with his girlfriend.