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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.


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.


tommyrot - May 24, 2010 5:17:23 am PDT #1286 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.

I have not talked to my freshman roommate since freshman year, besides one or two prank phone calls the following year.

How much would it cost to send Ninjas to Northern Wisconsin?


Lee - May 24, 2010 5:20:22 am PDT #1287 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

My freshman year roommate woke up 2 and a half hours before her very first class (which was at 8:00) to make sure she had time to properly blow dry her hair, which she did in the room.

I sat up, looked at her, and mumbled "this part isn't going to work".

Things went down hill from there.


Gudanov - May 24, 2010 5:22:44 am PDT #1288 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

2 and a half hours before her very first class (which was at 8:00) to make sure she had time to properly blow dry her hair, which she did in the room.

Your freshman year roommate was Rapunzel?


billytea - May 24, 2010 5:26:30 am PDT #1289 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I was still living at home for my first uni degree, and I was married the second and third time around. I've always thought it would've been fun doing the living on campus thing.


smonster - May 24, 2010 5:30:25 am PDT #1290 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

My freshman roommate was my best friend from HS. Yes, it was a bad idea. Yes, we did stop being friends, but time and FB have healed those wounds. I've come to realize that we were both depressed and dealing with it in different and incompatible ways. Me - mainlining NIN and Sarah MacLachlan. Her - living in her Happy Bubble.

Still friends with sophomore roommate (year abroad), and had the same roommates junior and senior year.

My real nightmarish roommates were after college.


Zenkitty - May 24, 2010 5:33:59 am PDT #1291 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I've always thought it would've been fun doing the living on campus thing.

That's one of those things that's better in fantasy than reality, imho.

My BFF's college-age daughter stayed with me for a week in March. She spent two hours every morning blow-drying her hair and putting on her makeup. Granted, she looked fabulous, but seriously.


Kathy A - May 24, 2010 5:34:18 am PDT #1292 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Lived in dorms all four years. Freshman year, I went through three roommates: the first only lasted two weeks until her new BFF and she decided to room together, so we exchanged roommates. I got along great with #2, but a friend down the hall had issues with her roommate, so to be nice, we swapped after the holidays. Well, that "friend" ended up being a real PITA and horrible roommate (by May, we devolved into communication through post-it notes), so for sophomore year, I hooked up with another friend and two others for a suite (two bedrooms and a bathroom). That roommate and I stayed together through junior year, but then she hooked up with someone else and I got another acquaintance for my senior year roommate. We weren't as close as the previous roommate, but it worked out fine for that last year of college.


Tom Scola - May 24, 2010 5:34:31 am PDT #1293 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

My freshman roommate was the loudest. snorer. ever. If you heard him, you wouldn't believe that he wasn't doing an over-the-top parody of snoring. His snoring got worse during times of stress, like, for example, finals week. He washed out, and didn't make it to sophomore year.


Vortex - May 24, 2010 5:36:10 am PDT #1294 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

My first year roommate really wanted to go to Duke because her boyfriend went there. She lasted for two weeks before deciding that she was going to transfer, and therefore she hated all things UVA and everyone who liked it there. She studied constantly because she needed a high GPA to transfer, so I was never allowed to play music or hang out in the room because she was studying. She also went to bed at 11PM in a suite full of night owls. Her boyfriend's nickname for her was "Booper" and he used to leave these saccharine filled messages on our answering machine. Second semester, she was allowed to have her car and she went to Duke EVERY WEEKEND.

She did not get in to Duke, and ended up transferring to Wake Forest just to be closer to him. We never heard from her again.

One day, my BFF (who I met in college and knew this girl) called me up and asked me if I'd looked at the wedding announcements that day. I said no, and she said "do it ASAP!". Imagine my glee when I saw the announcement of her boyfriend engaged to someone ELSE!!!