couch surfing
My roommate is, and has always been, awful. Coming to grad school has meant my first ever random roommate and a weird mix of experiences with her, including a trip to the Dean's office within the first month of school (without warning -- who solves their problems this way? Why wouldn't you say something to me first if you had an issue?). I generally try to stay out of our apartment for my own sanity.
A few months ago she started having tearful arguments over the phone. Lots of yelling, audible even if both of our doors are closed. This is just something I got used to; coming home to scream-crying has become a pretty normal thing for me. So yesterday when she started up again I wasn't surprised, until I started to hear things escalate to her banging around, slamming doors, screaming louder than I had ever heard her before. I tried to reach out to her, acknowledge that these are difficult times but request that she quiet down a bit, but that didn't really have any effect. Then I hear knocking on our apartment door. I assumed it was for her, so I let it go, until they kept knocking. I opened the door to POLICE. A neighbor had heard her and called. Honestly, not all that surprising. I let them in, and they knocked on her door to speak with her. She said she was fine and then...slammed the door in the face of the police. They came to my room to apologize for the fact that I had to deal with this and let me know that if I needed anything, I could call. Five minutes later, there was another knock at the door. I open it and the Dean is standing there, and asks, "Do you remember me?" I was honestly just stunned to see her there. Once I let her in, she moved to knock on my roommate's door and then paused to ask how I was doing, since her office had FOUR SEPARATE REPORTS of the cops being called to our apartment because of her since we moved in. That's what pulled me from my stupor of accepting this as normal. Now I'm couch surfing because quite literally, fuck that noise. I have finals this week, ya girl gotta study.