the top 10 things I learned from the dorms

I am now counting down the hours left of dorm life... its about 12. So with the year ending and my dorm career coming so nicely to a close, I thought I'd write about things I learned while living in a dorm here at ECU and at UNCG.

1. Maintenance men show up when you least expect them to.
UNCG: Meredith and I at our computers on a tuesday afternoon moments before I have to go to class, a knock at the door, I assume its Laurin Martin...So I scream for the bitch to "Get the Fuck out you bitch." Turns out to be a frightened maintenance man.
ECU: Well.. I was taking care of some business.. ah hem... one afternoon and theres a knock at the door, figuring that they would just go away if I didn't answer.. I was wrong, they came in and I had to pretend to be asleep.

2. There really is lesbian activity in the showers.
UNCG: We had a lesbian who lived down the hall from us who liked to have LOUD sex in the showers at random times. I was always told to go in and listen and report back news to the boys and I happily obliged.
ECU: In Tyler, our showers are connected. Meaning that we have four, but there are pairs. But it goes without saying that if someone is in one of the pairs, you dont use the shower in the same stall. But not these girls, they shower together and have long serious talks with eachother while they shower.

3. People above you are always going to be really loud and really annoying.
UNCG: Now, we never knew if these people were 400 pounds, like to bowl at random times at night, were wrestling or just jumping around, but they were so loud really late at night. Luckily I had a loft bed so I would just retaliate and bang things as hard as i could against the ceiling, but it never really helped.
ECU: The boys above us play basketball at 2 am or have sex where the bed bangs against the wall. The basketballs gave me terrible headaches. But this time we actually complained and they got yelled at :).

4. It takes 3 days for a bowl of milk to curdle. I don't need examples here.

5. If you live on the first floor, there will be roaches.
UNCG: Roaches weren't too frequent but when they did come out, they came running from the air conditioner, meredith would jump up and scream and I'd grab a high heel and squish it.
ECU: This past weekend we had a roach infestation. It was nice, roaches were everywhere. The neighbors and I got to go on a killing spree in the bathroom and I got Ross to kill all the ones in my room after we raided the hell out of it. I'd say in total there were about 60 dead roaches around.

6. Construction workers pick the worst time to do work.
There's really no story except that at both schools I've been woken up numerous times in the morning and afternoon by noisy construction workers.

7) Mooning people is necessary to make friends.

8) People around you listen to THE WORST music.
UNCG: Hunter liked to listen to Dashboard Confessional really loudly with the door open, that always really made me and Mere really happy.
ECU: Well, I've had to hear really loud postal service which isn't awful... but then you always hear the annoying rap blaring somewhere.

9) People have no consideration for others in the lobbys.
UNCG: I studied for a few tests in there and everytime a big group of people would come in and watch tv or this big black kid would blast really awkward music on the computers in there, when clearly there were at least 5 other people trying to study as well.
ECU: The few times I've tried to study, a huge meeting started in there, some kid played the piano and sang really loudly, 6 girls came running in to watch America's Next Top Model. I gave up on the lobbys.

10) Hall Coordinator are always really annoying.
UNCG: God, that woman was a bitch. First off she lied to mere and me on our first tour back last summer. She never had anything nice to say and she closed the kitchen on us. She was also just strange and too old to be a hall coordinator.
ECU: For one, shes never around and two she has really really loud sex with her husband in her apartment, which is not connected to my room, but our neighbors room. They like to get in big fights and then have crazy loud sex. Unfortunately I havent gotten to hear most of this :(.

That wasn't much of a complaint and maybe not even that funny, but I'm still all jacked up on cafeine and really just want to go to sleep, but I don't see that happening soon. Summer starts oh so sooooon!