i overheard my room mate last night

screaming (btw she only has one volume: loud) outside my door eating mcdonald's with her friends drunk. it's 2:30am. that's a totally acceptable time to be out on a friday night. it really is. but here's my question. why did you have to stay right outside my door? why not at mcdonald's? why not in the student lounge where no one can hear you? but i overheard her saying some things that bothered me.

1. she was telling cool hipster (who had gotten in just a little before that, sick from her first four loko experience) that she wanted to have a room mates dinner. CH could cook korean. RM could attempt thai though she says she's not a very good cook. and then she said. "But they don't need to make anything cause American food is shithole." I don't know why I was offended by this. I mean, America doesn't really have its own food cause its made up of so many cultures. The only true American food is like a hamburger or a hot dog but even those derive from some other culture. I guess I was just insulted for America.

2. As she and her friend stumble into my room (which is pitch black as I am trying to sleep but can't seem to) she shushes her friend and says "we can't yell or else my room mate will be bitch." She can't control her volume anyway and is shushed by her friend. I literally have never given her a problem. I tell my problems to this blog. I have said one thing to her. That I think she should clean the bathroom because her four guests left it flooded. Since then everything was kosher.

It's really weird to hear what people are saying when they think you're asleep. btw, i'm a pro fake sleeper. i've heard at least three people's opinions of me by fake sleeping.

2.5 hours later, someone on the fourth floor thought it was a good time for the fire alarm to be pulled. so i go outside into very cold weather with my pajamas on. there was no fire. and while we're on the subject of overhearing things, 65% of students standing out in the cold were saying something along these lines: "there better be a fire." or "i'm so mad at whoever pulled that alarm." i think this is stupid. here's why.

1. you do not actually want a fire. you're trying to be clever by exaggerating. it didn't work.

2. if you actually want a fire, you need help. because that's saying you wish harm on your own and other people's belongings. also there were definitely people who weren't awoken or evacuated. so you're wishing them harm too.

3. how can you be mad at someone who pulled a fire alarm? i think they did to be funny. it wasn't. but what if they pulled it because they thought there was an emergency? maybe they started a small fire in their dorm and panicked and were probably drunk or high.

4. when the fire dept came (and they did) and didn't find anything, you were even madder at whoever did this because you were asleep or cold or whatever. i just feel like everyone needs to get over themselves. why am i the only person who ironically knows how to cooperate? because usually i'm spiting left and right for the sake of nothing.

but i did learn something. hipster, artist, burnout, party girl, musician, actor, scientist, freshman, no matter who you are. everyone looks the same in their pajamas. how cool can you be in sweatpants and a t-shirt? pretty fucking cool, in my opinion.