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happeningfish wrote:oh god, i just emailed one of my roommates to basically tell her straight up that i'm taking the bedroom she wants because i'm a legal tenant and i've chosen my room, and when she DOES eventually sign the lease she's free to any AVAILABLE room. That's fair, right? I made the email as friendly as humanly possible and i just fucking pray that she doesn't make a big stink about it.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

mal says:
alex i got your email

mal says:
just read it now

alex says:
hi

mal says:
need to sleep so can't stay i'm sorry

mal says:
i'm glad you're doing well

mal says:
i am too

alex says:
awesome

mal says:
did noémie not talk to you about the room situation?

alex says:
we discussed it

mal says:
we thought it was a really fair way to do it

mal says:
we thought you would too

alex says:
i feel that what i mentioned in the email was pretty much the situation

mal says:
i don't really think it's fair though alex

alex says:
i don't think it's fair that you can come in last and lay claim to a taken room

alex says:
in my opinion

mal says:
it's not taken alex though... no one has moved in and just because your going next weekend we all agreed before we left that we'd pick from a hat or whatever

mal says:
even becca, maya and nadege did that

alex says:
i never agreed to that

alex says:
i need to move into a room next weekend

mal says:
and i told noé i'd know next wednesday and that's fine

mal says:
she told me shes going to also

alex says:
i'm not drawing for a room

mal says:
why not?

alex says:
because the other two tenants have chosen their rooms and i have chosen mine

mal says:
i can't talk about this anymore tonight

mal says:
i know what you feel

mal says:
and you know how i feel

mal says:
we'll discuss more later

mal says:
goodnite and don't hate me but i don't think ti's fair and noé agreed with me that picking from a hat (even her too) was more fair

alex says:
look, the fact of that matter is that i'm moving in

mal says:
yes i know

mal says:
and i'll know next wednesday

mal says:
BEFORE you move in!

alex says:
know what

mal says:
know when i'm signing the lease

mal says:
we can pick from a hat tomorrow if we have to

alex says:
that's all very nice but as far as i am concerned i'm moving into my apartment into a room that no tenant has taken

alex (i love you but it doesn't matter) says:
i'm not discussing this with you any more

mal says:
alex... i don't want to fight

mal says:
you’re my friend

alex says:
neither do i

alex says:
but this is the situation

mal says:
both you and i wanted that room and i thought you considered me a roomate even though i couldn't be on the lease

mal says:
isn't that right?

alex says:
regardless of why or why not you haven't signed the lease the fact is that you haven't

alex says:
and it doesn't really matter to me why or when or whatever

alex says:
but when you do, that room will be taken

alex says:
and you will just be entering the situation late and that's how it is

mal says:
alex we wouldn't have had this place had i not thought of asking nadege for their landlord's number

mal says:
i was in from the start

mal says:
i went to look at the place with you

mal says:
this is not fair alex

mal says:
aside from the legal things

mal says:
we're friends

alex says:
it's not fair that you reserved the option of ditching us by not signing the lease when we did

alex says:
REGARDLESS of whether you would have ever actually done that

alex says:
we put up with that because we had to and we understood it wasn't your decision

mal says:
i couldn't sign the lease until now

mal says:
i'm sorry

alex says:
i know

alex says:
it's not your fault

mal says:
yes you put up with it alex

alex says:
but this is how it is

mal says:
but i was there from the start

mal says:
noé agreed to pick from a hat

mal says:
so did i

mal says:
so why can't you too?

alex says:
because i don't agree with the principle

mal says:
noé told me that you wouldn't discuss the rooms with me until i signed the lease

mal says:
okay i understand that

mal says:
and i think thats a lot more fair

mal says:
you wouldn't have this apt without me alex

mal says:
i don't agree with your principle

alex says:
which is that you should be able to lay claim to a room in MY apartment???

alex says:
you are confused i think

mal says:
it's our apartment

mal says:
and i'm not laying claim

alex says:
you're not a tenant

mal says:
i'm saying PICK FROM A HAT

mal says:
to be fair


alex says:
HOW

mal says:
over the internet

mal says:
have a third unrelated party

mal says:
so what if i became one on wednesday?

alex says:
then you'd take a room that was available

mal says:
that's not fair alex

alex says:
it's absolutely fair

mal says:
i thought you were my friend?

mal says:
we've been through a lot

alex says:
this has nothing to do with friendship

alex says:
and you know it

mal says:
yes it does

mal says:
trust

mal says:
and right now i don't trust you

mal says:
i'm not discussing this anymore with you

mal says:
until next week

alex says:
i'm just really upset over this whole thing

mal says:
goodnite

alex says:
i'm going to montreal next week

alex says:
and my stuff is going in a room


mal says:
if you had any idea how upsetting this has been for me

mal says:
too

mal says:
alex

mal says:
i love you

mal says:
you are my friend

mal says:
but i cannot discuss this with you any further

mal says:
tonight you have hurt my feelings

alex says:
it's a goddamn bedroom

alex says:
get over it

mal says:
it's the moral of the whole thing

alex says:
yes, you put us through so much crap

alex says:
and you know it

alex says:
and we sucked it up

mal says:
thanks

--mal appears to be offline and may not reply--

I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

i honestly want to rip her fucking head off.

So, you mate is angry because she's not getting the room she wanted? That's really silly.

move in your shit before she does.

i am so going to. i don't fucking care.

but what if she moves in her stuff before you?

Wow. I mean, I agree with you Alex. Its a bedroom, it has nothing to do with whether or not you've been friends, or trust or relatioships it has to do with appartments and roomates learning to live with each other. What does is matter is the other people want to pick from a hat?
She sounds like the kind of person who often gets what they want (no offence) and is trying to talk her way into that room. Hopfully it'll all work out in the end though.

She who moves in first chooses first. Period. Unless, however, you all decide to rent it at the same time, and all of the original roomates choose their rooms then and there. But, with this lease signing business, that method is out the window, so it becomes a first come first serve situation. Especially since two of the roomates (one of whom hasn't even signed the lease yet) can't agree on who gets the room.

-smacks alex's roommate-

so. on rich and shelley's site, in the links section, there's a link to 'laurel's olp site'. yeah, that's not me. just so people know.
uh.

anyway. alex, you have a complete right to that room, if she hasn't even signed on as a tenant yet. she seems like she might be problematic to live with, if this room thing is a huge deal right now....have you lived with her before?

thanks guys.
i don't actually know what to do. if i just go and move in i'll come off as the big bad bitch and it will fuck everything up for a long time. bad way to start the year.
if i just put my tail between my legs and let them manipulate me into a draw then i'm just going to be fucking BITTER, especially if i lose. even if i win, it's going to be all that "see? was that so hard?" bullshit.

i was looking forward to this whole apartment thing so much and it's all fucked up now because of a stupid room

whose side are your other 2 room mates on? yours or hers?

well, noe was the one who came up with the draw in the interests of keeping the peace. she doesn't care which room she ends up with, she just doesn't want a big fight about it. unfortunately by planting this stupid draw idea in mal's head it backs mal up on her bullshit position. if noe had just blocked her out this problem wouldn't even be up for discussion anymore.

and then there's eric, and he's just totally uninvolved. he's the boy so he gets the room at the other end of the apartment and whatever. i don't think he even knows this is happening.

is eric your hot cat? if he is, i say screw your room and share his room.

i gotta agree with lori

haha i wish

And now, perhaps the most bitter email I have ever composed:

i agree to drawing with mal for the room with the following adendums:

1. that you both know that, no matter the outcome, i am extremely upset about being coerced into this. because that is all it is, plain and simple.

2. that the draw is fair. i'll come straight out and say i don't trust either of you.

3. that if i draw the room with the semi-solid wall, my neighbour agrees to be completely ignored if she tries to complain that eric and i are up until 4 am being noisy. god knows i tried my best to avoid it coming to that, and look what i got for it. so, noisy we will be, and put up with it you will just goddamn have to.


happy?

Yeah, you guys are going to be great room mates together.

I say settle it by celebrity deathmatch!

CM claymation wars!

Mills Lane has to ref!