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[Choop]

file a grievance with your dean of academics if he won't review your old bad grades

[wombat]

Weiner dogs! Weiner dogs!

[wombat]

Wow. So what kind of place have their people found to go that they can't take them?

I have only been to seven of those places.

[theinevitable]

...get a assigned a random roommate for next semester. He seems... nice?

I am trying incredibly hard not to judge a guy by what he lists as his interests on facebook.
But right now I am Pat-ing it up pretty hard.

I WILL NOT HAVE A DAVE MATTHEWS POSTER HUNG IN MY LIVING ROOM!

This is what I get for getting a school-owned apartment.

[theinevitable]

Yep.

I forget if one of you guys suggested this and I ignored it for some reason: I soaked the end of the faucet in vinegar. Apparently there was mineral deposit buildup.

[lprkn]

Good thing I like animals, I guess.

This is the main thing I took away from this post. If you were a psychologist and you said "animals" I would probably say "work."

I WILL NOT HAVE A DAVE MATTHEWS POSTER HUNG IN MY LIVING ROOM!

You need to have poster wars and we need to have pictures.

[jaydub]

The last time the doggies had some weird behaviour when they came back and they suspect low shenanigans.

Lotta dog raping in Spain?

[littlefallsmets]

My suggestion for the equal-opposite to a goddamned-fuck*ng-fuck*ng-fuck*ng Dave Matthews poster:

Large cheesecake poster of the She-Hulk.

"I see your douchebag fratboy hossshit fake-sensitive posturing and raise you MEGA-NERD. Mutally assured not gettin' laid, motherfucker."

[AugustWest]

Man Tip: if you fix something...brag.

A-men.  Nobody else has to know that the ability to make such repairs is a side-effect of being a middle-aged homeowner.

Also, dachshunds rock.

[CortJstr]

DMB? Seriously? I went to college in Charlottesville, their goddamn home town and people didn't have DMB posters up because it was 1998 and they peaked in 1996. Yeah, everybody had Ants Marching in at least one Winamp playlist, but posters? No. Maybe a bumper sticker, but only for chicks or guys who saw them play at Traxx before they got big.

[lprkn]

...drive 170 of some of the most harrowing miles of my life in order to get a friend to the airport for the holidays. I went off the road at one point. Thankfully I have 4wd and studded snow tires, and the ditch wasn't deep, so I didn't need to call a truck. Others were not so lucky.

[Doc]

Officially enrol in uni for next year. This means I have 29 days of paid work left (plus holiday pay) before I'm a poor student again. I really wasn't worried about this until tonight when I pressed the 'submit' button. I think it's not actually the money thing that's worrying me as much as the 'Oh shit no way am I going to be able to pass exams again, I had a good thing going where I had a moderately challenging job that I could pretty much coast through a lot of the time why would I give that up to be ritualistically evaluated for four years?'

This is something I've wanted to do for ages and now it's here I may fail at it. I'm not even being dramatic and pulling a 'OMGZ IM GONNA FAIL IM SOOO DUMMM!'l or anything, just a realistic assessment that this is going to be challenging for me and I haven't really had to worry about being challenged in this way for the last couple of years.

On the other hand I think 170 miles of driving in the snow would worry me more. I tend to like off-road driving but get really tense when the elements try to come onto the road. Not being sure your brakes will work because there might not actually be any friction between your tires and the road is scary Respectful Awareness times. Way to stay alive 'porkin.

[theinevitable]

maybe he won't put up a poster of him. But I know lots of people with DMB posters in their dorm rooms. Including some people who I like as people. I did not know it was so out of character for a college student with boring tastes.

My main plan is to just continue my joke-hobby of cutting the eyes out of models in Victoria's Secret catalogs, but this time without the other person being in on the fact that it's a joke.

Also, the thing is, all of our walls are already covered in appropriate amounts of posters which I specifically picked to avoid "this is just a nicer dorm room" being the impression we gave off. Not super-classy things, but... I don't know, I didn't put up my Nirvana posters for example.

But yeah, if he puts up something horrible, I am going to retaliate by taking down Lolita and putting up something mega-nerdy. I have a star trek poster at home that is pretty awesome.

There is also the possibility that he will be a nice roommate and just not a close friend, and that is fine I guess.
He is really into a few TV shows I like, and also Philip K Dick who I find enjoyable.
But I have heard that he is a weird kind of douche where... he is really into DMB and ultimate frisbee, but also trying to front like he's "well-read" in Lit classes with my friends.
The thing that scares me is that I only got that second hand, when I asked people straight-on they just kind of grimaced and said "oh, um, he seemed kind of... i'm sure it'll be fine."

I'm pretty put-off that they have still not informed me of this officially... I know he is moving in because my outgoing roommate got an email saying that his room will be occupied by this guy next semester. I am not sure why they need to inform him, and why they don't need to inform me.
Whatever. Good stories at the very least. It's only one semester.

[wombat]

...drive 170 of some of the most harrowing miles of my life in order to get a friend to the airport for the holidays. I went off the road at one point. Thankfully I have 4wd and studded snow tires, and the ditch wasn't deep, so I didn't need to call a truck. Others were not so lucky.

WTF, lprkn, you do make it sound like whereever you live, your friend is justified in wanting to get away from there... but is it really worth risking your lives?

[Ben-San]

WTF, lprkn, you do make it sound like whereever you live, your friend is justified in wanting to get away from there... but is it really worth risking your lives?

It's that or give them up to the wendigo.