Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

Or at least, is moving out!
Yes, the end of the roommate saga is now in sight!
For those of you raising an eyebrow in confusion, I'll summarize the last two months of living with the wicked witch of the east(she's from montreal)

This year, I am working as a Residence Advisor for the University of Ottawa, and living in the apartment style residence called Hyman-Soloway(yes an unfortunate name, I know) It is the most expensive housing on campus. I am living in a two bedroom apartment, and seeing as none of my friends have enough money to pay to live there, I had to be assigned a roommate. My roommate contacted me over the summer using facebook to introduce herself. I was a little bit nervous about her, as most of her pictures were of her partying at various clubs, making the "i'm a sexy model" pouty face. I'll admit I was definitely judging the book by its supposed cover.
I had the opportunity to talk to her own the phone, and she reassured me she was very serious about her studies, and doing quebec civil law.

Well, move in came and went, and things seemed to be going well. We had to fill out a unit agreement, where we decided on cleaning chores and visitors, that kind of thing, manditory by order of my Coordinator, my boss. The problems began when my roommate decided she didn't have the time to do dishes after every meal. Or every day for that matter. It wouldn't have been a huge problem except, she was using all my dishes, pots and pans, and appliances. I ended up having to wash pots to be able to cook supper for myself. I approached Sara about this, and she returned with, I don't want people in the apartment aftet 11, its quiet hours, so there shouldn't be anyone here. This annoyed me, but I agreed to it, even though I am allowed to have anyone I want at any time as long as we're not excessively loud. But i was trying to compromise. Sara, however, didn't keep up her end of the bargain. She also never took her weekly turn to clean the apartment. So I tried talking with her again. She basically told me she didn't have time to clean all the time, that I was being anal or OCD or just too bossy, and that she did not feel obligated to do anything to assist in keeping our living space clean. She became very hostile, and i realized nothing i had to say would get through to her. So i said our only other choice was to do a mediation with my boss, because I would not live in that kind of hostility. She was extremely rude, and of course I had a good cry with the Rez Life manager. I arranged with my boss to hold a mediation between us. She sent my roommate a letter informing her of the meeting. She received it at 2 in the morning and was furious. She banged on my door, demanding to know why I went to housing, calling my a tattle tale and a baby. I informed her I would not have a discussion with her yelling at 2 in the morning, and shut my door. She proceeded to throw the worlds biggest tantrum, screaming at yelling at me, calling me every name in the book, and slamming every door in the apartment. Safe in my locked room, I decided just to let her scream it out, and file a harassment report with Campus Protection in the morning. I also wrote down word for word all she screamed at me and sent it in an e-mail to my boss, and also gave that to protection.
So the meeting commenced less than a week later. My roommate apologized, then basically refused to compromise in any way about cleaning or anything, agreed to a room change and said she would bring her own dishes and pots. We went two weeks waiting for a room to come up for her to move into, because I agreed to wait for something that met her needs as much as possible. In the meantime, she was civil, i was civil. She didn't clean, but used mostly her own dishes. I indured her talking behind my back blatantly with her friends, usually when she was aware that I could hear her.
Finally, they find her a room, and call us in for a meeting. She declared she didn't want to move anymore, that I should be the one to move since i'm the one with the problem..she's happy. Of course, that's not possible, because i'm the RA i don't move. So she decided to bring her dad into the fray, and kept making and cancelling appointments with housing for close to two weeks. Meanwhile, she's being even more of a slob, has friends over 'hanging out' till past 3am, and is generally making my life hell. Just when I thought I would be stuck with her forever, she and her father finally make it to a meeting with housing, who informed them she was moving into this other unit, like it or not, by Friday. So, after all this time, I am finally rid of her!

The end is near, and while a house didn't fall on her and kill her, she's no longer going to be messing up my life! HAPPY DANCE!! There's no place like my roommate free home!

And as one of my managers asked her at the last meeting, infront of her father: Is 30 minutes of housework really that much to ask of you?

Prayer request

I have a prayer request for you all: My aunt has just found out she has a cancerous tumour in her bladder. This is probably the best place to have cancer though, because it is easy to treat, and cannot spread easily. She is very optomistic, as is the doctor, but we would still appreciate it if everyone holds her up in prayer right now.

I'm BACK!!

Wow,
It has been quite some time since I've been on here, let alone blogged! I have been having difficulty accessing the blogging system, and my account. Today, I decided to investigate, and saw that I had to transfer it into a google account! So, here I am!

Life has been extremely busy, working as an RA for the residences here in Ottawa, as well as my reception job. Then add school to that mix, and the result is a crazy crazy Kelsey! Nothing that new or exciting has been happening in my life, besides a haircut! I promise a weekly update of the blog from now on though, as it also serves as a de-stresser to write things out like this!

Until something more exciting happens,
I'm just happy to be back!