Yes. ANOTHER Entry tonight.
Aug. 29th, 2002 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
40cakesSo. Allow me to take you through the rollercoaster ride that is the fifth roommate adventure. Step right up. Must be at least 4'5" to view this entry.
June: Sent letter from Rowan saying we may possibly be pentupled, and asking if we have anyone in mind we'd like to volunteer before we get stuck with random girl. Robin, Willow, Sally, and I shrug it off. We don't know anyone else who is roomless that we'd like to live with. Anyway, the letter said "maybe."
Sally, living in Triad and taking summer classes, has a visit from maintenance guys who are bunking beds in preparation for pentupling and sextupling in Triad. She doesn't see any apartments from our place on the list, and doesn't think we'll get an extra.
July: No news from Rowan is good news, right? Though Celluloid Angel tells me that when she called Rowan, the woman at the Res Life office that she talked to was actually her old RA. According to the RA, EVERYONE is tripled/pentupled, and there are still about 100 people who were guaranteed housing that have no housing. Looks like we're gonna have a fifth.
August: Rowan has sent us a postcard telling us when to move in, but no letter about who our fifth is. Two weeks before move in day, I visit Res Life to ask if there's an extra name among us. There's an open space, but no fifth girl. Booyah. Even by Rowan standards, it's pretty shitty not to tell someone where they're living two weeks before classes start.
Last Saturday: Robin calls. We have a fifth. Her name is "Mandi!" and she likes to go to bed at 9:30. She'll be fed up with us within a week. Mandi didn't know she'd be living in an apartment with 4 girls. Rowan only gave her the numbers of who they believe to be her roommates, Willow and Robin. (That's another Rowan fuckup entirely, as Robin and I said we'd be sharing a room, and Willow and Sally in the other bedroom.)
Today: Robin IMs me while I'm online checking my eBay auctions. "I'm supposed to tell you we don't have a fifth anymore." She didn't want to take living with four girls, so she got a single in Mimosa.
...
Let that sink in for a moment. Where did this single come from? If it was vacant, shouldn't she have been there in the first place, instead of Rowan pentupling her? Maybe Mandi has an Angry Jewish Mom™ who called the school until they gave her a private room. Hmmm...Still. Every room on campus has more people than allowed by fire safety standards, yet there's just a single sitting around with no one assigned? Bah.
Oh well.
And I just realised that my computer looks REALLY bare without any action figures/minibusts/good luck fortune cats on it.
>^..^
June: Sent letter from Rowan saying we may possibly be pentupled, and asking if we have anyone in mind we'd like to volunteer before we get stuck with random girl. Robin, Willow, Sally, and I shrug it off. We don't know anyone else who is roomless that we'd like to live with. Anyway, the letter said "maybe."
Sally, living in Triad and taking summer classes, has a visit from maintenance guys who are bunking beds in preparation for pentupling and sextupling in Triad. She doesn't see any apartments from our place on the list, and doesn't think we'll get an extra.
July: No news from Rowan is good news, right? Though Celluloid Angel tells me that when she called Rowan, the woman at the Res Life office that she talked to was actually her old RA. According to the RA, EVERYONE is tripled/pentupled, and there are still about 100 people who were guaranteed housing that have no housing. Looks like we're gonna have a fifth.
August: Rowan has sent us a postcard telling us when to move in, but no letter about who our fifth is. Two weeks before move in day, I visit Res Life to ask if there's an extra name among us. There's an open space, but no fifth girl. Booyah. Even by Rowan standards, it's pretty shitty not to tell someone where they're living two weeks before classes start.
Last Saturday: Robin calls. We have a fifth. Her name is "Mandi!" and she likes to go to bed at 9:30. She'll be fed up with us within a week. Mandi didn't know she'd be living in an apartment with 4 girls. Rowan only gave her the numbers of who they believe to be her roommates, Willow and Robin. (That's another Rowan fuckup entirely, as Robin and I said we'd be sharing a room, and Willow and Sally in the other bedroom.)
Today: Robin IMs me while I'm online checking my eBay auctions. "I'm supposed to tell you we don't have a fifth anymore." She didn't want to take living with four girls, so she got a single in Mimosa.
...
Let that sink in for a moment. Where did this single come from? If it was vacant, shouldn't she have been there in the first place, instead of Rowan pentupling her? Maybe Mandi has an Angry Jewish Mom™ who called the school until they gave her a private room. Hmmm...Still. Every room on campus has more people than allowed by fire safety standards, yet there's just a single sitting around with no one assigned? Bah.
Oh well.
And I just realised that my computer looks REALLY bare without any action figures/minibusts/good luck fortune cats on it.
>^..^
