During my daily nap on Friday i heard some strange noises from the room next to me. Of course i opted this summer for a roommate so i could live in the not so nice honors dorm. My past experience with summer roommates has been that they are way better than fall/spring roommates. If you're lucky your summer roommate will barely be in the apartment, leaving you with a whole lotta room just for yourself. If you are unlucky then you're roommate will be loud, have all her friends over, and make you want to pull your hair out.
My newest roommate has been a mixture of both. She moved in the day after moving day and wasn't in much of a mood to talk. Fine by me. I introduced myself, made some light conversation and said the all important "if you need anything I'm right next door". For the first week i didn't hear a peep out of her. The 2nd week her boyfriend sort of moved in, and that's a different story. Along with the presence of a dude in the apartment, the bathroom, living area, and sink become hers and her boyfriend. While my meager stuff was overrun. The bathroom smelt of pine forest, and the noise level next door got louder.
All in all i took it in stride. It's only a month, and i could have gotten worse. But on Friday during my pleasant nap time, i heard the rumblings of things being moved. Upon closer inspection (pressing my ear to the door) it sounded like she was moving things out. This isn't totally weird. I mean a lot of people leave for the weekend.
The more and more i listened however, the less it sounded like she was going away for the weekend and the more it sounded like she was moving in with said boyfriend. Holy Mother of God. I have an apartment all too myself!!!! When the last of her stuff was moved out and the front door closed behind her i waited for a while, just to make sure the coast was clear. I was going to knock on the door, and make some lame excuse as too why i was knocking had it opened. But instead i walked by the door accidentally hitting the knob and walked into a VERY EMPTY ROOM.
It's like the best case scenario. I have the whole apartment too myself, which is making me more than a happy summer school student. It's like my first apartment in training. I've put more stuff in the fridge, placed the furniture like i want to, and danced danced in the living room wearing very cute shorts.
Time to take a shower. A day of shelving old books can make you smell like old books. It isn't pleasant. I will eventually have to talk about Rock & Roll (or Stephen) again. This crush thing is a lot harder than i thought. It's easier liking an ideal than someone right in front of you every day. If anything i am learning more and more about what i seek in relationships and i what i want out of a boyfriend. Don't worry i haven't gone all head over heels in like him (or worse fallen out of like with him because for stupid reason), but he's more like my "how to approach i guy a like in training" than anything else.
I've got plenty more explaining to do, but first a shower.
3 comments:
hello. you left a comment on my blog many moons ago which i stumbled across whilst cleaning up the comments. Then I ended up reading this article.
I have been living in various shared environments for the past 12 years and one thing is for sure. Other people are nuts...
I think everyone has there own wee egosentrical kwerks but does not like to think of themself as nutty..
Maybe one day I will write a book about my experiences of shared houses...
I am sure you will enjoy having your space.... It's hard to beat in my experience...
Being able to have a bath with the door open or singing along to whatever music you are listening to is so liberating.
Viva personal space....
Ps. Good luck with this fella you are in to, By the look of your photo and seing your writing i'd say you are quite a catch.
Never forget that.
Seeing as you seem to be into your music I am gonna send you a link to my myspace page....
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=158460742
of course you are quite a catch. even if 'your' picture is a sneaky trick!!!
but yes: i am glad that you are thinking of this Stephen character as a sort of training experience. i think that's about right. don't shy away! but don't invest TOO much, either. whatever, however, happens with him won't make or break your entire life, or your entire future interactions with boys. it's practice, and practice makes perfect.
and i also think that having someone (especially a Cute Boy) like you (just platonically, even) will be a really good experience for you. the first time a boy i liked actually liked me, as a person, it changed my life. literally and for real. just knowing that - yes, someone whose opinion and esteem i valued actually liked me, thought i was worth spending time with, liked the things about myself that *I* liked about me - was incredible.
so keep up the good work with rock&roll!!!!
can you sneakily take his picture and post it??? i wanna see this dude.
and living alone is the bliss of heaven.
Frogboots:
Yeah i'm thinking about changing the photo. No one (besides you and deltron) seem to realize it's Amelie Poulain and not me. But i bet she's a great catch too, i mean Nino feel in love with her
I'm trying to get some group pictures taken. You have to see his hair, it's amazing!!!
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