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Roommate Rant

To start, I must first say this: I am not a hateful person.  But sometimes, things get to me.  Real bad.

That said, the rant.  But first, some background information.  I live in an apartment, off campus, with two roommates, Matt and Brian.  Brian has his own room and I share with Matt (biggest mistake ever).  Now, I went to great lengths to get Matt to live with us.  I actually drove to his house, unnanounced, introduced myself to his parents and convinced his Dad to sign the lease for him, since Matt was at boy scout camp for the summer and couldn't get home.  So first semester, Matt is on academic probation, drops all but one of his classes and pretty much fails out of school.  Now if you ask him, he'll tell you he dropped out.  Not the case, he fucking failed out of school.  Why you ask?  Because he never went to classes.  The kid just slept all fucking day, didn't go to any classes, didn't do any work. 

So he gets kicked out of school, probably doesn't tell his parents, and then decides he wants to go to culinary arts school.  The school he wants to go to requires that you have at least 6 months experience, so he decides to get a job.  He finds a job as an appetizer cook at a local italian place.  Minimum wage and he only works on the weekends.  So he goes to the first weekend of work.  The next weekend he calls out sick because he has the sniffles.  The third weekend, he goes to work Friday, then doesn't on Saturday because "his brakes don't work."  Then he doesn't go again the next week because his car still doesn't work.  So far, he's had to be at work 8 times and he's made it to 3.  So week 5 rolls around, and he still hasn't gotten his car fixed, yet he has driven to Giant to buy groceries and cigarettes, which leads Brian and I to believe that he just didn't have any money to put gas in his car, but for some reason decided to lie to us about it.  Which is pretty fucked up. 

So he misses work on Friday's week 5 and now its Saturday, around the time he's supposed to go to work.  I'm downstairs playing video games on PS2 and he's upstairs in the room, with the door open, talking to his girlfriend.  I can distinctly hear him telling her that "it's only 5 minutes away, don't worry, I'll make it in time."  I go on with playing games.  He comes downstairs and tells me "So I just got off the phone with my boss, he said he wants me to work weekdays."  I didn't really feel like calling him out and not playing video games, so I just said "cool" and kept on playing.

So the entire next week, Brian tries to wake Matt up every day to go to work and every day Matt sleeps through whatever work he may or may not have to go to. 

Eventually, Thursday Feb. 9th rolls around and Matt takes his car to the mechanic down the street to get it fixed.  Friday Brian takes him to get his car and gets a glance at the receipt, which is for an oil change.  Then Matt leaves for a week to visit his girlfriend in North Carolina.

Meanwhile, on that Friday, Brian's Mom called Matt's Mom because Matt owed Brian money for the security desposit which we payed at the beginning of our lease.  Matt's Mom said that she had sent Matt that money twice, so she sent a check directly to Brian's Mom. 

That's pretty much the story up until now.  Oh, yesterday when Matt came home he told me that he was going to quit his job (that he more than likely doesn't have anymore) because "working my ass off for minimum wage sucks" when in all reality, he only went to work 3 times.  He's going to try and find another job as a line cook at somewhere like Applebee's, which he'll probably sleep through once again and fired from.

I really want to figure out how to kick him out, but I really don't know how.  He pays rent (although he was almost late the last time it was his turn to pay) and pays utilities, but usually very late.  He really has no reason to be living here, and frankly, its gotten to the point where is presence is just utterly annoying.  The problem with talking to him about us wanting him to leave is that he'd probably try and steal stuff on his way out, or fuck with our belongings, and I assure you, if anybody fucks with my guitar, I'm probably going to jail for a long time.  I asked one of my professors about it today and he said try and do it with tact, and hes been in the same situation and doing something like that is very difficult.  If anybody has ideas, leave them in the comments.  I'll just be at home being miserable. 

I thought of something I saw the other day.  It was a picture of Woody Guthrie.  So naturally, I thought of Pete Seeger (Can't help it, banjo player)

That's Pete Seeger.  On his banjo it says "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender."  Woody Guthrie's guitar says "This machine kills facists."

Ah, folk music.  Now I can't wait for next years Folk Festival.

Alright, another xanga post.

I dropped my CAS 415 class.  There was just too much work.  I figured if I started to get behind the very first week with the very first assignment, it was just going to be too much.  So thats out.

My job at the IT help desk kicks major, major ass.  I pretty much sit here and do my homework.  Hell, I'm at work right now!  Getting paid to write in my xanga, because nobody is in the computer lab.  Although....I should probably refill the paper in the printers.  Paychecks are very nice too.

Um...not much else.  I started trying to learn 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson.  Excellent song.  This guy Larry has played it at 2 of Jim's jams and I decided it was time to learn the song.  I have all the chords down, its just a matter of memorization now.  I probably learned some other stuff along the way too.

I got a 100 on my differential equations test! YES!

Um....yeah....xangas block.  Thats pretty much it.  Hopefully tomorrow won't be as busy as it's looking out to be.