Thursday, July 29, 2010

i don't recall any episodes of mr rogers neighborhood that taught me how to deal with this

ugh im sitting here apprehensively awaiting the house meeting in which four of us basically gang up on our roommate patrick and kick him out of the house. i feel kind of bad because even though he's hella awkward, i've never had any personal issues with him. but evidently he's been at the heart of some pretty extreme ROOMMATE DRAMZ!!
here's the history: he moved here from virginia a few months ago and is one of those scrawny obnoxious indie music kids who works at a record store and spends his whole life trying to one-up all the other obnoxious indie music kids that he hangs out with. this in itself doesn't affect me in any way whatsoever, but unfortuanely our other roommate justin is an indie music kid too, so over the past few months tensions have gradually escalated to the point where they are on the brink of an ALL OUT SCRAWNY OBNOXIOUS INDIE MUSIC KID WAR!!!! this sounds like it would be like one of those turf wars in west side story where they snap their fingers and dance-fight, but these two guys have actually gotten in a couple of physical altercations, so it is getting really tense and awkward.
anyway, despite all this i feel like a total douchebag because i've been really nice to patrick and have actually defended his weirdness a couple of times, and now i'm going to have to sit down in this group and blindside him with news that he's getting booted out. not only that, but after you "kick out" a person from your house, its not like they just gather all their shit and walk out the door twenty minutes later. its gonna take like a month. its literally going to be a month of running into him in the kitchen or living room, and being like "oh hey patrick, how was your day? i'm going to talk to you like we're not in a really awkward, vaguely hostile situation right now and pretend that i dont know that you think i'm a backstabbing asshole."

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