domo_kun

I've made a decision... If my roommate isn't back by 9:00 this morning, I'm not going to have the cable service transferred to my name. I'm also not going to pay "my half" of the cable bill.

Background information:

My roommate cancelled the cable service without discussing it with me first. Our ISP is the cable company. I do web design and such, and I need the Internet to do my work. We're each supposed to pay half of the cable bill. I had been without a job for a while, so I couldn't pay, and my roommate never paid, either, so we have a huge bill. Now, I can pay the entire bill. However, I don't feel I should have to pay anything, since she acted as if she was the only person responsible for the bill. She claimed that she had the right to cancel the service, because it was in her name... She also has thus far refused to "un-cancel" the service, and I have tried everything short of threatening to move out. I'm damn close to doing so. She wants to transfer the account to my name, but I work third shift, and she works second shift. By the time the cable company's office is open, I'm either asleep or so tired that I cannot function.

Today is the last day that we can reverse her cancellation request. I'll stay up until 9:00, waiting for her to show up. If she doesn't show up by nine, I'm going to bed. If the cable service is cancelled, I'm not paying a dime of the cable bill. If I have no say in whether or not the service is necessary, then why should I pay for any of it? If I just wanted Internet service, I could go to my parents' house or one of several local businesses that have free WiFi. I agreed to go halves on cable broadband because I wanted Internet service that I had some measure of control over. But, since my roommate doesn't seem to think that I should have any control, she can pay the entire bill. All $77.00 of it.

I'm going to move the fuck out once I get enough money to afford the deposit on a studio. Fuck this shit. My roommate is a stupid, inconsiderate cunt, and I've had about as much as I can take. She makes so much fucking noise during the day, when I'm trying to sleep. When I get home after work, I make almost no noise. I make it a point to be as quiet as possible when I'm up and she's asleep. But her? She slams every door shut when she uses them. When she is washing dishes, she bangs them around. When she's looking for a particular dish, she bangs the dishes around. She doesn't tell her friends that I work third shift and that I'm asleep when she has them over, so they make all sorts of noise.

Now, the stuff I'm about to bitch about isn't as serious as disturbing me when I'm trying to sleep, so I can earn money to pay bills, but it's still irritating as fuck... My roommate sees fit to rearrange the furniture at least once a month. Why? I don't fucking know. She's got boxes of her crap out in the living room that she's said she'll take care of. Sure, she ends up taking care of stuff like that, but she just rotates the boxes in the living room with boxes in her bedroom, so the problem never gets solved. She also seems to lack an ability to understand when someone does not want to talk. She just starts talking randomly to me, often about subjects that make no earthly sense, while I am concentrating on something else, such as building a website or watching TV or watching a movie, or reading a book. I'm sorry, but, when I am concentrating on the latest episode of Doctor Who, I don't want to be bothered by inane drivel. Then, to make it worse, she doesn't stop talking after I've either offered no response or a grunt as a response (without breaking my concentration on whatever it is I am concentrating on). Plus, she says some of the most retarded things. She actually believes that, if she files her tax return for 2005, she'll get arrested. Why? Because her mom claimed her as a dependent. I've explained to her countless times why that isn't true, and told her that the only thing that she can't do is claim herself on her tax return. But she persists in her stupidity. She also believes that, if she is pulled over and doesn't have her driver's license, she will get arrested. I've also explained to her that, no she won't get arrested, she'll just be given a ticket and she can go to court and show the judge her license, and they will dismiss the charges. Then she said that she can't get a ticket because her insurance will go up. I attempted to explain that, if a judge dismisses the ticket, it's like you never got it. She didn't get it, so I gave up. This irrational belief of hers has caused her to be late for work on more than one occasion, as she won't leave without her purse.

So, I'm either going to kill her, or I'm going to get enough money to move out. Let's hope I can get the money to move out before I just lose it.

You know what? It would help matters a lot if she was hot and slutty. But she's not. I think she's slutty (not that there's anything wrong with that), but she's not hot. Not at all.

I realise how chauvanistic the above comment is, but I don't mean it like that. I just love sex. Sex covers a multitude of sins (and now God, if he exists, is going to strike me down with lightning for what I did to 1 Peter 4:8), at least for me. But I will not have sex with someone I don't find attractive. I just can't do it. My roommate isn't attractive at all.

EDIT: Check this thread on the Lifestyles board for information as to what happens next.