My Roommate
By Rozie37
@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
May 18, 2008 3:08am CST
I will be the first to admit that for the most part I am hard to live with. My home is my safe haven. My place of escape from the insanity of the world. But it is very hard to feel like I am escaping, when the place that I am escaping to, is occupied with a person I would want to escape from.
Now don't get me wrong, I love my roommate very much, on the other side of my door. But after living with her for three months shy of a year, I am sick of the sound of her voice. Every time she speaks, I cringe. Some people appreciate constant company, no matter who it is. This is how my roommate is, sadly, I am not one of those people.
I am a deep thinker and like to zone out into my own world. When people interupt me, I feel like they are invading my space and I get annoyed. She admits that she talks too much, but she does not try to curve it, until I have flown off the handle.
I like to do things that require no communication, like reading, hanging out on the web, writing, and listening to soothing music. She seems to think that because we are roommates, we should always be willing to entertain the other. The only thing she like to do is listen to one radio station and talk me up the wall.
So you can imagine what this past year has been like. Not only that, she is Jewish and I am Christian. Now I respect all religions and have enjoyed learning so much about the Jewish religion. And she tolerates my talk of my religion. There was one time when I was listening to gospel music and she commented that she did not like that type of music and I chose to just ignore that comment.
But, at the end of this month, both of our dreams will be coming true. She will be moving to another board and care to live with her long time common law husband/boyfriend and I will once again have my room all to myself, hopefully until I leave this place.
I love the people here and when I go out of my room, I am the life of the party. I am jumping around acting silly, entertaining, soaking up the attention, helping and loving everybody. But when I close my door, I want to relax and be alone with me. Even though she has been in my room all this time, everytime she turns the key and opens the door, it bothers me. It feels like an invasion of my space.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
20 May 08
Your prayers have been answered Rozie and soon you will have your room to yourself :) good for you. I can understand how hard it can be to share with a roommate, and not having your own space. I would be most annoyed because I know its hard to have family around for a week - after that I get irritable :)
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
21 May 08
I can not be happy until she is finally gone. Just tonight, I was relaxing and reading and she kept on making all these unimportant comments and it would break my concentration yet again. Sometimes I will stop and just allow her to talk, talk, talk. Then I will tell her that I am going to be busy again, but she continues to talk.
Tonight I simply called her name and she goes, oh you're reading. Well Duh, what does it look like. Another thing that really gets to me is when she talks to me while I am on the phone. Or she'll yell and say hi to the person I am talking to. That is so rude. Last night, I was on the phone with my aunt, who is a fuss box.
My roommate was bored and yelled goodnight to me. Thank God my auntie did not hear her. I would never have heard the end of it. She would have called everyone she knew and went on and on about it for hours. I know because this is what she does in my ear about others. Now I will admit that my aunt goes a little far with things like that.
My aunt is from the old school. She does not believe in mental illness. You are just lazy and she will tell you to your face. Her own 23 yr. old granddaughter was eating up all her tissue paper. But she never called her crazy, only lazy. She was too lazy to cook, so she just ate toilet paper? Hmmm, makes perfect sense to me.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
21 May 08
That is most definitely rude, interrupting you all the time. Maybe she doesn't know how to entertain herself. You have mylot, your books, your family to talk to and know how to occupy your time. It seems like she doesn't and probably gets annoyed about it. I don't know, trying to make excuses for her I suppose because I'm not sure why she would keep on doing that, knowing full well she is being rude.
As for the toilet paper issue, hmmm i won't go there lol
