Birthday Week

Just no.

So lots of times in college you get these things called roommates. I feel very ambivalently(a word I like using but have been using wrong. I used it as having no feeling whatsoever, but it means a love/hate sort of feeling.)toward mine. Most of the time I guess I'm on the hate end of the spectrum, but not in an "Oh my gosh, she needs to leave kind of way". She drives me insane because she is LAZY!! and the opposite of smart. I really value intelligent people so, in my world, stupid is a crime.

The other day I turned on the TV and Becoming Jane was just starting. And I say: "Oh, I love this movie!" and she says: "Is it an old movie," to which I reply "No, it's with Anne Hathaway. It's about Jane Austen." And then she says..."Who is Jane Austen". I spent the rest of the day just walking around bewildered.

Recently she took to almost killing us numeous times on the highway. She was just talking to her friend, fixing her wig, texting, and other perfectly acceptable things like that. She was speeding. The car did whatever you would call hydroplaning if there was no water, so it planed then(more than once). I will not get in her car again. I don't need groceries or anything that badly.

On to the lazy, she often goes to sleep around 2:30 in the morning and wakes up between 5 and 7 at night. Her obnoxiously loud phone goes off continually the whole day, but she ignores it. She doesn't clean or shower much.

Then there's the "injuries". She joined a sports team but never really goes because of things like scraped knees or a sore back. She gets minor injuries all of the time and just talks about them like she's dying. She tried to call the school's emergency hotline in the middle of the night because she had a bad scrape on her knee that she got at 11am that day.

But, she's really not that bad. She means well. She's just rude, not-so-bright, and spoiled. She always tries to be nice to me, so I really can't hate her; and I don't. I'm easy to annoy to. You'd never know because my insides aren't connected to my outsides. Inside I'm depressed, annoyed, furious, and cynical; but on the outside I can't stop myself from being helpful, cheery, and calm. I don't mind though. I don't think other people should have to pay for my bad moods, and I like my privacy.

So because she's not really being mean, I've taken to dealing with her by finding little ways to annoy her like she annoys me. I leave my phone volume all the way up and text a lot. I threw away our recycling box without consulting her(it was a nuisance). I turn lights and the TV on and off when she's sleeping. I talk really loudly on the phone. Just anything. If she does it, then I do too. I really hate being in people's way and being rude, so none of these things would usually be happening. It makes me feel better. It's a fun way to let of steam. Just go see how annoying you can be. So far, she really doesn't seem to have noticed.

P.S. Her birthday is Wednesday so she calls this her birthday week. I'm sorry, but it is called a birthDAY. You can't claim a whole week. She's been talking about it since August. She's going to be devastated if the entire world is not celebrating all of this week.