I'm going to make the most of my own space.

[deathcookie]

Hee, I'm glad I got my mother to buy The GraunGuardian today. It's not a perfect newspaper by any means, but any broadsheet that has this quote is worth buying:

"Keane are a good example of what's wrong [with the British music scene] they're pretty shit, aren't they? What are they actually about?"Granted, it was from the lead singer of The

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[not_on_fire]

You could "take up" snoring - my friend did that in his first year in halls and managed to drive his obnoxious roommate into sleeping in the kitchen :-)

[deathcookie]

I think sleep yodelling would be far more effective. Unless my roommate is a fan of the Polyphonic Spree.

[kittenhotep]

The ony thing I know about Keane is that the chap in their video has THE SMALLEST MOUTH IN THE WORLD.

No idea if he's even in the band, or what the band sound like (our friend's television was muted at the time of his TINY MOUTHED appearance). But... they do look like turd. Jangly guitars and deep lyrics, I'll bet.

[deathcookie]

Jangly guitars, and lyrics about as deep as a child's paddling pool:

You'll knock on my door
And up we'll go
In white light
I don't think so
But what do I know?
What do I know?
I know!

Currently being wanked over by the NME. Probably. I don't know, I'd rather eat soap than read it.

[beingjdc]

It still shocks me that we have shared rooms in our Universities. Treating people in their twenties as if they are at boarding school.

[deathcookie]

It shocks me how poor university accommodation is, as someone who's experienced quite a bit of it. The worst hall of residence I ever saw was Campbell House East when I was at UCL. Most rooms was shared, yet barely big enough to fit two single beds in, the central heating was broken all year, there was no on-site security so people would just walk in and steal post from pigeon holes, and though the house was over six floors there was no lift, and bathrooms and laundry facilities were at the bottom. All this can be yours, self-catering, for £70 a week! Maybe it's changed in the last two years, though.

[deathcookie]

Most rooms 'was' shared? I really need to proofread before I press the 'post comment' button.

[beingjdc]

I had an en-suite in my second year.

[feanelwa]

Shared rooms suck. It might have a partition or something but still grrrr.

If they try to get you to share with a man they are breaking the law, btw, and poke a CAB.

[deathcookie]

Typically, there are only 60 shared rooms out of the 7,000 places for first year students in halls. The warden I phoned frantically gave me some patronising, "most students benefit from the experience," lie, and said I could be moved (ie. hauling my stuff all over the city when none of my family drive, meaning it's difficult enough to get my stuff up there anyway) after two weeks. By which time everyone else will have settled and made social groups.

It's also going to put a severe dampener on things if my girlfriend comes to visit. Meh.

Eh, sorry for whining. :|

[feanelwa]

I'd be whining a lot more if somebody tried to make me share a room. I'd be whining all the way to a mailing list to try and get accommodation other than halls.

[deathcookie]

The thought has crossed my mind repeatedly, but I'm not familiar with Leeds and have never lived on my own before, with the exception of student accommodation, so I'm too wussy to take that option up. Sigh.

[sean_gabriel]

Whaddya mean, no sleeping naked? It might jsut prove to be yet another sure-fire way of driving them out ASAP. Either that, or you might find your room mate even more amenable than you could have hoped. Either of which seem like perfectly good options to me...

[deathcookie]

My roommate might be some fat, greasy, fishnets-on-arms twat whose music idol is Avril Lavigne. It's unlikely they'll be a hot, sexy chick.

And I'll have you know that my naked form is highly unlikely to drive anyone away, thank you! *pride*