you deserve medals. all of you.My only bad experience was my first year of college, when I was an extremely naieve little girl. The first night, I didn't think to lock the door, and awoke at 4 am to someone CRAWLING INTO MY BED. Luckily, it was a girl, not a boy, although she was very drunk and very soundly asleep.
I climbed over her, and, panicking, ran into the hallway, running through a large puddle of her vomit in the process. In my bare feet.
I had my (equally drunk, but sleeping quietly) roommate wake her up and get her to leave, but I had to clean up the floor, as I didn't quite know what else to do.
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I climbed over her, and, panicking, ran into the hallway, running through a large puddle of her vomit in the process. In my bare feet.
I had my (equally drunk, but sleeping quietly) roommate wake her up and get her to leave, but I had to clean up the floor, as I didn't quite know what else to do.
I've just rememberedmy roommate at the time was pretty awful, too.
She was a large, loud, and intimidating Hispanic girl who I was convinced would devour me while I slept.
She used to talk to her friends and family on the phone, in Spanish, telling them what a horrible roommate I was, and how boring, white, stupid, etc, I was. Thing is, I speak Spanish...
She listened to nothing but angry Spanish and American rap music, and ABBA. EXCULSIVELY. "Dancing Queen" still makes me wince. She would put on headphones if I asked politely, but then she'd hum to the music anyway, and I was too scared to bring it up.
Also used to watch nothing but MTV and Spanish television, usually until all odd hours of the morning when I was trying to sleep. Remember, the room is a plain square, so there was no escaping the TV.
Nothing too awful...just a bad match on the part of the housing dept.
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Tue 18 Nov 2003, 23:34,
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She was a large, loud, and intimidating Hispanic girl who I was convinced would devour me while I slept.
She used to talk to her friends and family on the phone, in Spanish, telling them what a horrible roommate I was, and how boring, white, stupid, etc, I was. Thing is, I speak Spanish...
She listened to nothing but angry Spanish and American rap music, and ABBA. EXCULSIVELY. "Dancing Queen" still makes me wince. She would put on headphones if I asked politely, but then she'd hum to the music anyway, and I was too scared to bring it up.
Also used to watch nothing but MTV and Spanish television, usually until all odd hours of the morning when I was trying to sleep. Remember, the room is a plain square, so there was no escaping the TV.
Nothing too awful...just a bad match on the part of the housing dept.