Thanks everyone for the thoughts on clarinet and sax. It's very helpful.

I'm glad your first day went well, askye! Fannish coworkers are a plus.

I missed it, askye. What kind of store are you working in? Glad to hear it is going well so far.

So now my roommate wants me to keep Frankie in my room because the fact that he's having accidents in the common space makes him "uncomfortable." But he won't take him outside to pee, which might reduce the number of accidents. This despite the fact that until his dog died last month she was having accidents in the house, and without being asked I started taking her outside so she could pee. It doesn't help that he hit me with this right as I got home from work and I haven't had lunch yet. He also shut Frankie in the room but left the cat with kidney failure out, and the only litter box is in my room. I hope she didn't pee anywhere.

I'm just done with the world.

smonster I'm so sorry your roommate is being a dick.

I'm working at a Smart Pet store chain doing stocking/cashier. It's way more physical than I've been doing. Right now it's just set up for the store but I got a taste of what I'll be doing when we open.

I think I'm going to enjoy the physically challenging job that isn't so mentally challening. Although honestly working some place where I have to deal with spatial stuff is challenging.

So now my roommate wants me to keep Frankie in my room because the fact that he's having accidents in the common space makes him "uncomfortable." But he won't take him outside to pee, which might reduce the number of accidents. This despite the fact that until his dog died last month she was having accidents in the house, and without being asked I started taking her outside so she could pee.

WTF? Um, no, that's not how co-housing works.

you need a better roommate.

Yeah, what happens if you just tell your roommate no?

Okay, so I'm not nuts and he's being unreasonable.

You are completely reasonable! It takes a village, yo! This said by new mom of cats abandoned by my next door neighbor who moved away and left them, including the blind one I named Penny.

If you live in a house with a dpg, when you moved in knowing there is a dog coming with the roommate, when you HAD a dog...you take the dog out to pee. I mean, this is NOLA. I might be techty if I had to go down several flights into the freezing cold, but he's got to, what? At worst throw on a sweater and socks, step out the front door, and stand there watching a Colbert clip while Frankie pees?

Just no. (And I don't know if he's a smoker, but if he is and y'all don't smoke in the house, he's REALLY being a jackass.)