Mindscape

Roommate

So I've mentioned before in a couple of my earlier posts about my roommate. She's still nice, but after living with her for a month and seeing how she really is now that she's gotten used to me being present, I've come to see how absolutely aggravating she is.

First of all, she's very loud. The few times she's had to wake up before me to go do her sorority lab, she has zero consideration for the fact that I'm still asleep. She bangs stuff around and doesn't even try to be quiet while getting ready. And then slams the door when she leaves. When she gets back she practically yells about her day, or how tired she is (even though I wake up earlier than her when she doesn't have sorority lab once a week), or about random drama that I've made obvious I don't care about.

And sometimes she just comes to my side of the room to jump and dance around trying to get my attention when I'm trying to do homework or study or whatever. And she always asks what I'm doing, even if it's blatantly obvious, like reading a book or something. Why do you need to know?! And oh goodness she listens to the same five cringey, "popular" songs every night without earphones.

And lordy she won't leave me alone about things sometimes! Every time I don't want to do a specific thing with her (like going to a bar, or going see the new fifty shades of gray movie 😷🔫❌ohgodno) she tells me she's going to make me go, or drag me there, or kidnap me and force me and I keep telling her no I'm not doing this thing, it's not going to happen, nuh-uh, no, nein, desist, but she just keeps going! Like it would be understandable if we were both joking around but I'm always being serious when I don't want to do something, and she's not getting that.

But I think the worst thing is that she always sets her alarm clock at 6 am. Every morning at six her alarm goes off, and every morning she snoozes it. She snoozes it over, and over, and over, and over, for hours. I wake up at either 8 or 8:30, depending on what classes I have, and I always wake up to my alarm and turn it off and get ready for the day. This is how I've gotten myself up since high school. She has class at the same time as me or later, usually later, but still, every morning it's six am alarm. It would be fine if she actually got up at that time, but she just lets her alarm ring for five to ten minutes and then snoozes it for ten minutes, without fail. I counted this morning after it woke me up again, and she snoozed it twelve times before I went shower, which means she snoozes it fifteen times total from 6-9 this morning. I'm about to tell her to turn that freaking alarm off or I'm flushing her phone down the toilet.

She also brings people up to our room sometimes with no warning. I could be half naked and she and her friend would get an eyeful because they just waltz right in. No text, no call, no knock on the door.

Another thing, she's so lackadaisical about her grades. She got a D on a test because she didn't study enough and got mad at me and her mom for not praising her because it wasn't an F. Her mom chewed her out over the phone for getting a bad grade, and all I did was say that a D is not a good grade. In college, it doesn't matter if you get close to a good grade. If you fail a test you fail the test, and a grade that isn't passing is not a good grade. No one is going to give you a medal for it not being as bad as it could have been. This is her first semester being at college so I'm trying to be patient, but people who act like they should be praised for even giving an effort aggravate me.

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On a completely different note, humanoid183 my insomnia has gotten a little better. I'm still not really sleeping well, but I'm getting more than four hours of sleep a night. I tried boring myself to sleep like you said and it actually worked this time! It took a few nights to get it to really work, and I sat around for hours just staring at the ceiling before I finally fell asleep, but it's working much better now. Thank you so much for your advice friend!!!