My Roomie Is Cooler Than Your Roomie

Meet Allegra, everyone. She is my roomie and IR major. She's from Germany and she's cooler than your roomie. Let me tell you why.

She listened to me re-enact Padme giving birth to *OMG!WHAT?!* twins as I gave a run-down of Revenge of the Sith in less than 30 minutes. Sith happens, Padme's *GASP* pregnant, Ani's, like, "Crap! Was I there for that?", more Sith happens, Anakin became a box, burned 99% of his body, Obi-Wan became an obstetrician, Padme cries...A LOT [Here's the part where I gave a colorful dramatization of Luke & Leia being born], Yoda decides that Padme "pregnant she must still appear" [At which point Allegra came up with some even more colorful theories about how the Jedi made this possible], and ZEE END!

She also clicked on an ad for "Spyware has been detected on your computer. Would you like to disable it with SpyIncinerator?" thinking that it was an actual Windows message. She's like, "Do you want me to clean it?" and I'm like, "No! Don't!" and so she, logically enough, clicks, "No" on the window. Pop-ups ensue. Please note, I have a Mac.

However, I think this just about wins at life:

Allegra: Do you want to make tea? [Sitting two feet away from the kettle.]
Me: Sure! [Across the room, and it's a big room, from the kettle.]
. . . [ Pause ] . . .
Allegra Do you wanna make tea?
Me: [Getting the point. Finally.] OHMAHGAWD! Geez, alright, Anakin. Anything else you'd like me to do for you tonight, dear?!

That was the part where I got off my butt, walked across the room, grabbed the kettle, went to the bathroom filled it with water, and plugged it in.

In other news, I'm really not liking the new washer and dryers. First of all, the entire other unit of them is out of order because they aren't plugged in and I find darkafrofaerie's discovery about the laundry room being "closed due to vandalism but NOT because we just haven't installed the darn washers and dryers yet" to be just super and so Richmond Uni-tastic, indeed.
And now, everyone is trying to do their laundry because we've had to go an unexpected week without doing anything. I woke up at 8AM this morning thinking that nobody would be doing their laundry that early on a Monday morning only to find all three washers full. Darn. Next time I look for a school, I'm seriously going to ask how easily accessible the laundry facilities are and if they are usually backed up because, honestly, you need a reservation to do your laundry at Richmond.

I am so glad I'm leaving at the end of the year. Although, taken that the semester's only just begun and I'm already counting down the hours until I can go home again and be done with this place, I think it's going to the longest 4 months of my entire life. I'm going from London, the city I love but the school I despise, to Los Angeles, the city I less-than-adore and, hopefully, a school I'll love.

Thank goodness I have a cool roomie to make the wait bearable, right?