Posted on 07.24.10 2:28PM under Uncategorized
One thing I’ve noticed is that if a woman says something directly to someone else, like “Oh hey, could you turn the music down, I’m trying to sleep” or “I need to use the drying rack” this is interpreted as being bitchy. Part of the reason I try to avoid directly saying something is this. But then a woman just gets called passive aggressive. I really don’t think women can win.
If you did not know me in 2006, then you did know about my roommate. Crazy Lauren. She was given this moniker because she might in fact have been crazy. One of my roommates in particular reminds me of CrayLo, who even if the trashcan was overflowing in the bathroom, would ignore it. She would ignore it to the point of disposing of her pads around the trash can. I found this out because I was tired of taking out the trash and wanted to see if she would do it without me having to say something. Dominic is the same situation.
Natalia and Imma are gone and it is just me and Dominic. This guy has been steadily getting on my nerves since his girlfriend started coming around after finals. They will cook dinner, wash their dishes (poorly), and stack them on top of the dishes in the dish rack to dry. We have a system. You take your the set of dishes in the dish rack out before you wash your dishes, then you wash yours. The next person to wash dishes does the same. Flawless, really. Great system. Except when people don’t hold up to it.
Two days ago the trash-can was about 3/4 of the way full as is the recycling, and I think “Well I will just see if Dominic does anything about it because as far as I know, he never takes the trash out.” I believe it is always Imma or Natalia or I. I’m basically only eating cornflakes at this point and I have no food waste/trash that is going into this container. So I wait and 2 days later nothing has been done about it. I take the bag out of the can and am swarmed by fruit flies. I try not to inhale and I take the bag to the bins, come back, wash the bin out, and leave it to dry. I’ll see if he puts a liner bag in it or just leaves it drying, forever. Like he does his clothes. Natalia said she will purposely leave a rack occupied because otherwise he just leaves his clothes on the rack and will move on to the next available rack, not taking down his already dry clothes. Having now witnessed this, I believe it.
I have exactly 16 more days with this place as my place of residence, then I’m outta here.
C. has taken care of the stuff the family needs to do. The good news is that if for any reason the work permit falls through and I don’t get my Visa on August 24 when she and I are going in is that my Fiktionsbescheinigung will be extended.
In other news: If I can travel on a Fiktionsbescheinigung/in between getting my Visa in my hands then I am going to Italy to visit a friend. Verona to be precise. Holla! Round trip airfare is only 150ish Euro. I know I posted about saving my money and paying down my CC but I am willing to stray from this plan for Italy. I am not likely to go there any other time since I don’t really have a good reason. Visiting a friend is a good reason.
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