Water
I like water. It’s particularly useful for throwing around a flat at people. Greatly relieves tension. Even better, it doesn’t need much cleaning. This happened tonight (I blame the increased sugar intake) in my flat, which has 4 1st years and 1 3rd year (all male). Guess who the target was?
The problem is there is a lot of tension in our flat right now. Mostly due to relationships. I have no particular dislike of couples. I’ve been there and it can be awkward trying to incorporate 1 or 2 more people. Two of my flatmates have a girlfriend at the moment. One couple are very discrete and happily socialise with the rest of us. The other couple do so rarely. Right now is around the time that we need to plan for accommodation for next year, and it’s making things difficult. I have no wish to live with a couple. Do we include the unsocialising flatmate next year? Probably, but it might lead to more awkwardness.
At least water can help. It inspired the banner for this blog. Not 100% sold on it, but I’ll leave it for a bit. I should point out I’ll probably posts lots for the first few days, just so everyone has a clue what’s going on.
Hah! You’ll be pleased to know there’s at least one reader
Seriously though, I’m having the same sort of problem here at Ox. We have to apply for housing next term, and most people apply in groups of six to get shared accomodation round a kitchen (thats how it works here – 6 to 1 kitchen). So my social group is planning in applying in two groups of six, with which I see two problems: 1) there’s one couple, who have only been together a couple weeks, and if they split up they’d probably do the avoiding-each-other-and-being-nasty thing that split couples seem to enjoy doing, and 2) do I really want to live with the same people? Part of me says “yes, of course”, but I also know that I made these friends through living with them, and if I live with the same people for the rest of uni I won’t have a chance to meet new people like that.
I guess it’s different for you in Glasgow, though, since it’s so huge and there’s massive amounts of people you’ll obviously never meet, but for me it’s just Worcester College, 400 people – sometimes I feel silly that I don’t even know half of them by face or name.
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What’s a class in PHP?
Fix the enter thing – I put one line spaces between the paragraphs while I was typing my comment and there’s no spaces in the version you see.
1 reader in 1 day, I can’t complain. Things are changing every day in the flat, which makes it difficult to know what will happen in the end. I agree living with new people would be a good idea, but you’re right it’s not going to make much difference here. I quite like your set up although won’t you eventually get fed up of living/working/socialising with the same people?
You might also to annoyed to hear that House season 4 started in the US last month, and we’ve not even got 3!
Classes and stuff are PHPs object-orientated bit. Mr Rogers always dreamed of them (even if he never understood them).
Humm, that line spacing is annoying *goes to fix*. That’ll do it, no?
Yeah, that’s good (line spacing-wise).
I think you’re dead on about the point that you get tired of living with the same people – it happens to everyone (I see it starting already around here), and how much would it suck to lose friends I’d only made last year just from over-exposure? …
When do you finish/what doing over the holidays?
Scott’s Spiel?!?
Hey, if you have any suggestions let me hear them!
Finish a week today, going home probably the Wednesday after that. So far, my “doing” list only has revision on it…