Because I'm a terrible, petty person who can't write about happy things. Its really funny because this quarter I'm actually having a lot more fun doing nothing special compared to last quarter, but at the same time my roommate annoys me more then ever. If I make the slightest noise, she comments on it. "Oh, thats kind of annoying." Thanks. Did I mention that I have yet to figure out all the settings on my brother's laptop? But thats a story for another day.
So basically one of my suitemates who happened to be an RA moved out the end 2nd week of spring quarter. Before that we had an arranged chores list on an excel table, but thing is the RA didn't bother putting up a new one since she was moving out. So my roommate put up a new one without consulting anyone and decided to go ahead and do this. When I said that if it pissed her off that no one was doing their chores, she should talk to the other suitemates. Then she said that she only put it up for "the sake of completeness." What the hell. Then why are you taking it out on me?
Anyways, after 3 weeks of unwashed toilet, guess who had first toilet cleaning duty? Right, thats me. I wouldn't really care except at the beginning of the year this RA did this drawing with slips of paper to determine the order of chores. My roommate decided to go ahead and determine the order herself, giving me and another suitemate one extra week of chores since the days weren't even. Oh, did I mention that she also spelled my name wrong?
So two weeks later its my turn to clean the bathroom again. Turns out that the RA actually brought a lot of the cleaning supplies and also, most importantly a toilet brush. So basically all we've been doing to clean the toilet is to clean the parts not in the bowl. At least I flushed the toilet so the water went down and attempted to clean it. I'm not even sure she cleaned the toilet when it was her turn, but seriously I'm not going to describe the general condition. As of this morning it was disgusting, and my roommate was mad/not speaking to me since I didn't do my chores on time. So I decided to do the right thing, get rubber gloves and the rest of the cleaning stuff and do a good job cleaning the toilet.
Hurray. Shouldn't I feel like I did the right thing? While I was cleaning with the door open, my roommate walks back from dinner and she doesn't say a word, no hi, anything. Still don't know what her problem is, and its not like she's going to tell me, so I'm just going to keep getting the silent treatment.
Right after I finish cleaning she has the gall to go in to check how good of a job I did. She's gotten on my case about not taking enough time to clean in the past. This time I guess she had no comments.
Really, I try to spend as little time with her as possible at this point. I don't know what her problem is. Her first and only words to me today were along the lines of "Oh, isn't that kind of annoying?"
At this point I can't figure out what to say to her. There is no law saying that I can't stay up longer or keep my desk lamp on when she goes to sleep. I don't have to do chores, or clean the part of the room around my desk, or go to bed or do my homework when she says so. I'm 18 and not even my mother tells me any of this stuff, its supposed to be common sense. I've tried to start a discussion a couples times. Shot down. She's always right.
I know I'm not the ideal roommate, but really, who is? She just starts the silent treatment, breaks it with a couple negative remarks and I'm supposed to figure out whats pissing her off and fix it. I'm tired of putting up with her.