I have been ignoring this website, but well you know what they say about girls who have time to write in their journals…anyway! Life these past few months has seen quite a few changes. My amazing roommate and I have been getting along swimmingly, and I finally decided to have a chat wiht him about our living situation. He originally moved in temporarilly, on a month-to-month basis, while he was going to consider buying his own house, or getting an apartment by himself. Previously he had been living in a flat with a handful of other people almost half an hour from where he worked; here with me he is just down the road from work. So I went into his room one night and teasingly told him, “we need to talk about the living situation. When you originally moved in here it was going to be temporary, but it seems as though you are making no effort to move out.” The look on his face was priceless! I then told him I loved having him here, and that he is welcome to stay for as long as he wishes.
I never thought I would be one to live with a roommate again; the last one I lived with ended terribly, with her calling the police on my guests when I had a dinner party! I did have two friend roommates after college who I enjoyed living with, even though when I was in college, I found out that being best friends with people does not always mean you can live together in harmony when one summer Catherine and her girlfriend, and my girlfriend and I, shared a tiny, flea-infested flat in West Philadelphia. It was a record-breaking summer for heat, and there were no jobs to be found so my girlfriend and I ended up working as telemarketers selling circus tickets for the Potsdam Police Department. We had to beg for money for bus fare home one night when they raised the rate on us, so it was a stressful summer. I even played my trumpet on the street for tips! We made the most of it, but it was a hard summer, and my girlfriend and I ended up going home early after having so much trouble paying our own way. Catherine’s mom was awesome though; she would bring us cases of Heineken and Mike’s Hard Lemonade (hey, we were poor college kids, we had no taste) and take us to dinner every weekend.
Moving on to work issues…I’m sure the current ecomonic crisis is being felt by all. We had 200 people laid off at my company last week, and I am hanging onto my job by the skin of my teeth. Luckily I’m considered “low-cost outsourcing,” otherwise I would be collecting unemployment right now.