Hotashi

Today I officially signed my moving out papers and gave in my keys. This marks the end of my five years living in Waterloo. Surprisingly I’m not that sad…a little sad but it wasn’t like last year when I finished undergrad. Maybe because this time I wasn’t saying goodbye to my very close roommates who over four years had become my sisters. This year I had stupid roommates so I wasn’t that upset to leave my apartment or say goodbye to them. It’s not that I hope I’ll never see them again; I just don’t care if I don’t. And on one last rant about the roommates, the emotionally needy one (roommate #2) left a bunch of her stuff behind for me to throw out before my inspection. Thankfully I cleaned up that shit and got my $120 back. Honestly though, she shouldn’t deserve her deposit money back. I wish I could get it as compensation for living with a socially awkward weirdo.

I’m a little sad to leave the city, but I’m also looking forward to eventually living in downtown Toronto with Jack. We won’t move in together until we’re married, but at least I have something to look forward to. In the meantime I’ll be living at home with my parents. *groan*

Goodbye Waterloo. I shall miss thee…ish.

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I think I mentioned previously that I’ve moved back to Waterloo until the end of August to work on my research. Well here I am living in my three-bedroom student apartment all alone. Ok that’s a lie - my hamster is with me too…and two house plants. But I’m pretty much alone since Tokki sleeps for the majority of my awake time and the plants are just plants. Jack came up this weekend and we hung out for a few days (long weekend) but other than that the place has been empty.

For the time I have been alone it has been weird getting into a pattern of living alone. Having people live with you definitely shapes your habits. For instance, when my two stupid roommates lived here with me I would try avoid going outside my room when I knew they were out there. Why? Because if I wasn’t asked really stupid questions I would get sucked into a socially awkward, brainless and/or ridiculously boring conversation. And then there is also the issues with rotting food. Personally, I like to avoid that.

Now that I’m here alone I’ve been wondering how to conduct myself. For instance, is it still inappropriate to not close the door when you’re on the can? Nobody is there so is it a big deal? Should I let my dishes pile up until I feel like washing them since I won’t be inconveniencing anyone? Can I take up all the room in the fridge without seeming like a hog? I know some of the answers might seem straight forward but since I’ve always had to share my space with other people, I have never had to question when such social norms are null. Null or nullified? Anyway, it’s weird. I took a piss with the door open…it felt so wrong.

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I checked my one e-mail that I don’t use very often and I found out that I had several books overdue from my school library. So I went to check my library account and found out that they have a HUGE fine against me and they have suspended my account. I distinctly remember renewing my books so that they will be due in September! And there is at least one book on that list that I had already given back at least a month ago. So now I have to go down there and settle this all out. I refuse to pay for their idiocy. =/

Btw, I had e-mailed them a couple of times before asking how I could change the contact e-mail for which they contact me by since I didn’t check that e-mail very often. They never replied. Seriously…idiots!

UPDATE:
So I went to the library to give some books back and pay my fine and I find out that the fine is WAY MORE than the fine listed online. ARGH! One book that was recalled had a fine of $25, which I managed to talk down a bit. Still, it was a lot. The rest of my books had a small fine each but there were a lot of them. This fine was from the time between their initial due date and the day I renewed them (6 days). So I really couldn’t justify refusing to pay since 1) it was my fault, and 2) if you don’t pay your fine the university won’t allow you to graduate. There are a lot of things over this year that could have prevented me from completing my program and graduating, and I refuse to let a stupid library fine be the reason. So I am now debt free and I can worry about other reasons why I won’t graduate on time. ARGH!

P.S. It is a REALLY nice day today. =D

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I woke up to a full blown thurnderstorm this morning. I don’t think that has ever happened before. Normally I feel quite down when we have rainy weather, but this time I feel quite relaxed by it. We’ve gotten a lot more rain than usual this summer and it’s a nice change from the droughts we’ve been having over the past couple of years. I remember how everyone’s lawns would be yellow and crispy, and now they are green and lucious. So beautiful! I hope we have more summers like this. I’m sure all those people who have to actually go outside today are glaring at me. =P

I moved back to Waterloo today and plan on staying here until my lease is up at the end of August. I met up with one of my MA friends and we walked around the area for two and a half hours just catching up on things. It was nice to be able to do that again (being at home made me have a very limited social life). I’m partially happy to know that I’m ahead of so many others in our program with the progress of my research. But I’m still worried about not being able to graduate on time. I’m in a stage now where I can’t really do much and I need to wait on a couple of things before I can get cracking on analysis and writing. I’m trusting God and trying not to worry.

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Ok, so this is my third rant post in a row. I swear my life isn’t this miserable. I just get more enthusiastic to post when I’m angry. =P

My roommates are stupid. Really, really stupid. If you haven’t been following my previous posts about them then I’ll sum them up in a few sentences. I didn’t want to talk about them in great detail before, but I really need to know that I’m not crazy and they really are as stupid as I think they are.

Roommate #1: A 21 year old first-year university student who has never lived away from home and has been completely sheltered from the world. She didn’t realize that she was attending a different university than she thought she was until I corrected her three times (there are two universities in our city and they are down the street from each other). She also willingly believed that we get spagetti from spagetti trees after a professor showed a fake documentary on spagetti trees to get students to question what they are being taught. Clearly she missed the point. Did I mention she’s sheltered? Oh yes, and when the person living above us was having bed-banging sex she asked me what the sound was and why people keep jumping upstairs. Yes, she really is 21 years old. She also does not understand the importance of proper hygiene because 1) she keeps her toothbrush sitting in a puddle of water on the counter, 2) she tries to reuse one-time-use mop heads to clean the floor (with water, not with any bleach product) and 3) she has the tendency to let things rot for over a week and not notice despite the OBVIOUS smell. She also likes to make comments about “all” Chinese people, such as how they smell and how there aren’t any differences between them and Japanese people. Yes, she really said that and didn’t even show any remorse when I told her that her statement was offensive and far from the truth. So yes, that is roommate number one.

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