As much as I like and find my house mate to be a great guy, he is here at the house almost 24/7 and it starting to wig me out!!!!!! I thought because he was a med student he would hardly be around, but he is doing some kind of specialized 5th year program of public health classes (many of which he can see on-line anyway, so he doesn't have to go up to campus). I feel a wee bit crowded out of my own place, even though he is pretty much in his room all the time studying. But then I have to remember the positives outweigh the negatives, and for my own sanity, I have to list them out:
Pros: he is paying the majority of my rent
he is pretty quiet
he is a genuinely kind and super-intelligent person
Cons: he is kind of a slob in the kitchen, meaning he does do his dishes but when he cooks anything, he leaves all sorts of crumbs, drips and splatters that he doesn't notice
he is here ALL THE TIME!
hasn't really cleaned the bathroom or bought the TP
And did I mention that he is here ALL THE TIME....
Sigh...it is totally worth putting up with the little annoyances because the extra money allows me to go on my summer trips. On the plus side, he just informed me he will be moving out at the end of April, so I think I will be housemate free for a few months again and then get somebody in for September at the start of the new school year. It can get hard for me as an introverted private person to have someone around all the time like that, is all...