2006-07-21 - 18:36
It took me a bit to figure out the problem. I have very little in common with the members of this gorup and several bones to pick about our leader, but what has been bothering me is how my roommate luck has run out! I fell in with H because on the surface we seemed to have some things in common. However, she snores, loves it cold, and keeps the TV on when she sleeps. She spends money like it's going otu of style but tells me how frugal she is. She talks babytalk from time to time and when she smiles her face sort of freezes into this grimace that could be southern cordiality or a muscle spasm. everything she says is breathy as if she's always exasperated with the person she's talking to. Am I being harsh? Am I hard to get along with?
Suffice it to say I have switched roommates. The only ones with a problem, the trouble-makers of the group. And everyone wants to know why but all I could tell one is--H is my antithesis. and actually i get along with her fine now that we don't room together.
So NOW i'm rooming with a crazy woman, K. She's very nice, but crazy. She also hates H. But this is where it gets drama--y. My roomie, a black woman, was upset with her old roomie, another black woman, about not being told she was getting a new roommate (to help me out) and feels like she was being tossed aside to room with a Caucasian! (the word came out like a hiss) I should mention that this fight between the two took place in the hall and the walls were particularly thin at this hotel. I'm probably not the only one who heard every word. She yelled about solidarity among AFrican-american women and loyalty of roommates. but she was perfectly nice to me after the fight, so i don't know.
K happened to mention to me that she had never had a roommate, as in someone who pays half the rent so I can only assume that's why she's so ready to express her feelings. With roommates sometimes it's best to just leave it unsaid and wait til the lease is up. That's what i'm doing.
