an update...

so apparently the box for me to send my ipod into apple is on the way and should be here tomorrow (hopefully). and then they told me they'll send me a new one (if they find it to be broken...which it is, so they'd freaking better) and it should be here within 5-7 days. brian said he got his two days later, so hopefully i'll have that kind of luck so that i'll have it before i go home for break. it would suck to not have it for three and a half weeks, but i think i could survive. i'm just happy that they say they'll fix it for free. but they made sure i understood that i'd be responsible for any other repairs after this, which makes me hate apple because they know its going to break again...they always do. i wish i could remove myself from the grips of apple. i'll work on it.

something else...a few close friends here (steph, kate, and maybe sometimes brian) know of the struggles going on in mcgloin 325. an update is in order because a huge thing just happened an hour ago...

so liz is under the impression she is the only one who lives here and if she does ever realize other people do live here, she just doesn't give a shit. anytime she takes a shower, she locks the bathroom door. now let me take a second to explain how mcgloin rooms are set up. there are four people in one suite, two to each bedroom. there is a common living room and bathroom. the bathroom is set up so that there is a shower, shower changing area thing, two sinks, and a toilet all contained in one room (toilet has a door and there is a curtain separating the sinks from the changing area and another curtain separating the shower from the changing area...if that makes sense) with one door off of the living room. one would assume that since there are two curtains separating the shower from the sinks and the toilet (and another door if we're talking about the toilet), that it would be unnecessary and absolutely ridiculous to lock the outside door and thus preventing the other three roommates from being able to get into the sinks or toilet at all. but yea, so she locks the outside door every time she takes a shower. if you knock while she's in there asking her to open the door, she won't do it until she's totally done in there. essentially, if you have to go to the bathroom, need to brush your teeth, or need water from the sinks (ie for cooking something or as refreshment), you're screwed. this situation is even worse if the bladder is extremely full or if you are in a hurry and need to, say, brush your teeth before you go to class.

anyway...this has been going on for a long time. last week, while she was in the shower, i was working on homework in my room and really had to go to the bathroom, so i knocked on the door and when i asked if she could open the door, i got an incredibly bitchy response: (in quite the valley-girl-esque voice) "ummm, no. i'm in the middle of a shower! (emphasis on shower)" and in return, i said, "maybe you shouldn't lock the door then." that was the end of that...she talked shit about me to our other two roommates, erin and ashley, who are on my side in the matter. then, already twice this week, ashley has needed to get into the bathroom while liz was taking a shower, so then the same thing happened. they got into a confrontation about it, blah blah blah. so yesterday afternoon, ashley and erin shoved a bunch of cotton balls and other random things (cardboard, blue gooey sticky stuff, tin foil, etc) and taped it in there with electrical tape so that the door wouldn't lock. finally, today she went to take a shower and apparently found that she was unable to lock the door. erin and ashley were at lunch, so i was the only person here. so, i was in my room listening to music and about to start working on my paper when she storms into my room and starts yelling at me for taping the door so she couldn't lock it. i, of course, told her i didn't do it (in complete honesty because i didn't do it and had only heard about it from erin and ashley). she didn't beleive me and went on to bitch about how i should talk to her when something happens instead of "writing little notes" (reference to the note i left on the tv a couple months ago). i responded to that argument very well. (seriously...people should know not to argue with an ex-four year debater) then she started talking about how i talk shit to her two best friends (talking about erin and ashley). whatever, i responded to that as well. she didn't have anything to say in return, so she just walked out of the room, so i jumped up and went out into the living room (where all the stuff that previously had been shoved in the door was now all over the floor because she's a brat like that) and said, "i didn't do that to the door...why don't you ask your two best friends (emphasis on best friends)." she decided to ignore me after that. i'm pretty sure i won the argument.

we'll see how things go this evening once we're all back in the room at the same time. should be interesting...