Soo.. How is YOUR living situation going? ;)

[nightshine]

I can only qualify this by saying that I have had some of the best roommates ever as well. I've had roommates that I woke up at three o' clock in the morning to tell them about my night, housemates that threw a birthday party for me after I had moved out, harmoniously shared a townhouse with a girl that helped teach me to climb, and lived with

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[lostwanderfound]

If you can find it over there, I heartily recommend a book called He Died with a Felafel in his Hand.

Outrageously funny, and the perfect documentary of sharehouse life; everything in this book has happened to me at one time or another.

[lostwanderfound]

Incidentally, while we're sharing flatmate-from-hell stories, I:

* Had a flatmate chase her boyfriend around the loungeroom with a carving knife before she ran out into the street, got hit by a car, disappeared for three days then wandered back into the house pretending nothing had happened;

* Had a flatmate steal the rent money, spend it on drugs, attempt to frame someone else for the theft, accuse us of victimising her when we told her to move out because of this, then come back and burgle the house (getting about half of my music collection in the process, much of it irreplacable) when we didn't change the locks quickly enough (the ex-flatmate of the previous anecdote had let her know that we were going to be out of town for the weekend...).

[nightshine]

I have two other bad stories as well (I've lived with a lot of people)- but nothing so extreme :)

Your stories are creepy! I once lent money to someone that was a recovered drug addict, and it turned out later that he had relapsed. I can't even imagine living with one. The person also took off with his roommate's rent, which was sad for everyone involved.

[nightshine]

I looked it up :) I am designing a site for my web design class for new first year students, and I am going to put a link to it on the site. Hopefully I get the chance to sit down with a copy sometime soon as well. I'll let you know if I do :)

[sohwhat]

that sockzilla story is the best! i can't believe how nutso some people are.

i honestly have the best roommate in the world right now. which i know because i'm a *terrible* roommate, and she's put up with me for 2 years.

=)

[nightshine]

You're really lucky.. good roommates sometimes take a while to find. Its kind of like panning for gold.

Yes, the sockzilla story is pretty hilarious. I don't know what else was going on there, but what an extremist! thankfully things improved for him after he moved out of there- his roommates for the next year were excellent :)

[russkiypenguin]

and some people wonder why I live alone

[nightshine]

your cousin was a cokehead? good grief, how stressful. it just sucks when you're in partnership with someone who is that vulnerable. they obviously can't make you one of their main priorities, because the drugs are always at the top. i'm surprised by the number of people that have had druggie roommates. i guess that i've been lucky in that regard, although this is not to say that i haven't had a couple of 'off' living situations- i really think everyone has.

[russkiypenguin]

yeah, I knew he loved weed before I made my decision. The further addictions only showed up after the fact. and unfortunately it's not that he was a cokehead. he is a cokehead.

[pash29]

I can so relate to this phenomena. Everything seems good, and then...My roomates now are pretty cool and respectful people. A is the youngest, just inher third year of uni. An art student. She hoards her dishes in her room until the end of the week when she washes them, which is alright since the rest of us don't have to see them. But strangely, when she makes toast she scatters crumbs over the entire counter and leaves her peanut-buttery knife there in the middle of the crumb minefield. I *always* end up braking down and cleaning it, because nobody else seems to notice. But she does share her mandarin oranges with me...The two guys are very quiet most of the time. No complaints there really. It's an exceptionally good situation, given we didn't know each other before we moved in and we are all committed to staying until the end of our lease in the summer

[nightshine]

Haha, you're like the classic live-alone person, so I was curious to see what you might have to say on this topic. I just cannot picture someone accusing you of stealing..that's got to suck ;) Its just pretty amusing to me because you are among one of the most trustworthy people I know. (Nice story, though.) AND, I agree with our discussion when you left- we would have been good roommates :) But I'm glad that you've entered what sounds like a fairly harmonious situation right now. And your rent is cheaper, too. Good for you!

[7ghent]

Man, I hear that. The best roommate I've ever had got us evicted by bouncing a rent check. I was out of town at the time and returned with 8 hours to move all of my stuff out.

Other roommate problems mostly revolve around cleaning and cats and not cleaning up after cats.

I currently live alone in a 750 sq foot house in the University area. I've got an 8-foot block fence topped with barbed wire, lots of trees, grapevines, bamboo and a bomb shelter. It's a weird little place, but I like it.

[nightshine]

Yeah, I live alone too. I've had a girlfriend coming over to use the internet and shower, because she was on a boat and her generator blew, but things are cool for her now. I've got a lot of people in my life- so far I haven't had that "so alone" feeling. Your place sounds nice.. the bomb shelter made me laugh. Is it from WW2 or something? :)

[7ghent]

More cold-war era. But yeah, it's fairly cool. Occasionally it gets a little too empty, mostly due to the fact that I haven't ever lived alone and been single simultaneously. But mostly, it's pretty good.