Thursday, 29 November 2007

• sheep in wolf's clothing

  the longer i live in shared housing the more i am coming to despise it. a week ago i had to forcefully implement a cleaning schedule because our kitchen had gotten so out of control i was starting to question my safety. to make matters worse i'm the youngest person on the floor (which i took to mean that the others should know better) and i'm the only one (besides lorraine) that actually seems to care/know how to clean properly. i don't want to be able to eat off of the floor, but i'd still like to see it. what sucks is that i know that i'm just going to have to wait until the job circulates around to me for me to know it's getting done properly. i mean, i had the job of 'appliances' this past weekend and as i was cleaning the oven chung came in and started using the just-cleaned microwave. normally i wouldn't care, i mean that's what it's there for, but he didn't cover his food and shit exploded all over the place WHILE I WAS STANDING THERE SCRUBBING THE STOVE. to add insult to injury: he just said, "okay, bye!" and walked out! i don't understand it. not only does this affect our security deposit, but i thought it was a general feeling that people didn't want tropical diseases from the food they made. what the fuck?! as bad as the kitchen is, thank GOD i don't have to share a bathroom! i can only imagine the horror of having to sort that shit out as well. *shudders*

  that said, i really miss spending most of my time with guys. okay, so i know you're probably thinking, "um, guys are disgusting" but i'm not talking about the physical housing thing, i'm talking about the no drama thing. since my entire program consists of about 70 girls and 6 guys i've been spending a LOT of time with girls and let me just say: it is not pleasant. all of the catty shit that i thought i had escaped from last year just travelled with me across the ocean and manifested itself in all new people. ugh. maybe it's like katlyn and i were talking about; i think we should have been born guys. guys don't seem to have this tendency towards drama. or if they do they know how to sort it out right away and GET OVER IT. unlike chicks who have to dwell on every single fucking detail and talk about shit constantly (but never TO the person in question) and then wonder why nothing gets resolved. christ. if guys were a bit cleaner i think they would be the perfect housemates.

  on a whim i signed up with this 'Host UK' thing to get a host family and haha i DID! apparently there's a family up in leeds that wants to kick it with me the weekend of january 18th. all i know about them right now is that they're vegetarians (and can do vegan!) which is sweet. only potential downside? they have 4 young children. wasn't told what exactly 'young' means. please don't let them be babies. for the love of god i hope 'young' means 'gradeschool'. let's hope, huh? oh well, learning experience. it's only for a weekend. besides, i've never been to leeds so that should be pretty interesting...right? haha!

  guess what, still no loan. blah blah i should be more assertive but i just freaking can't storm into offices and pitch bitch fits and argue. as much as it embarasses me to say i'm much more likely to go in, start talking about how much i've been screwed over and start to cry. yeah...not exactly terrifying. well...maybe to some, but definitely not the people over at the welfare office. believe me, i've tried. *sigh*

  okay, going to go prep myself for all of the shit tomorrow. must be strong!

   

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