New Roommate

My new roommate moved in today! I feel like this one's a keeper, or at least, I feel like he'll be sticking around a bit. As opposed to that last couple's five day stay.

He had more stuff than he'd estimated, which is to be expected. People generally don't realize how much stuff they own. I remember mentioning on this blog how, moving into student housing, all I had were two suitcases and a backpack, but moving out, I had three suitcases, two backpacks, like six garbage bags full of clothing, and several bins. And this is when my only living space was one room and a kitchen cabinet. I'd stated before that I only ever owned what I could carry on my back, and this was still true, but there's no way I could carry all that on my back at once. I even abandoned a mattress, night stand, and bookshelf (I'd later get my mattress back)

I moved that couch bed into my room. For the past few years, I've only been sleeping on a mattress on the floor. This seems to be an indicator of your socioeconomic status. Soon after we first got our furniture at the place I'm staying at, I ran into someone I knew, whom I'd seen when I didn't have furniture, and told her the good news. Her first question was "Do you have a bedframe?" When I told her I didn't, she said "That's okay, I don't either" kind of like saying that I'd risen to her socioeconomic status but hadn't surpassed it.

And I know a couch bed isn't the same as a proper bedframe, but I was talking to a friend who is a floor-sleeper like me, and she was quite proud of having adopted a couch bed as well (through the same people who were moving out), denouncing the mattress she'd been sleeping on. This tells me that a couch bed is a step up from a mattress, even if it isn't the same as a bed that was constructed to be a bed.

But to be honest, I don't know what society's obsession is with slightly elevating yourself above the floor. Me and my old roommates got some furniture from a secondhand store, and they disassembled the legs. We never bothered to put them on. Why would we? Just creates a trap for dust and miscellaneous items that might get kicked under there. Same concept for a bed, why do people need to feel like they're hovering above the floor?

But the truth is, with all the new furniture being moved in, as well as the influx of furniture I received not long ago, it's hard to find a place for everything. So just in the interest of space, it makes sense for me to use the couch bed.

Moving the couch bed was pretty exhilarating. I don't tend to ask for help when I need it, and moving a couch up a flight of stairs with a landing in the middle is easily a multi-person effort. But somehow someway I managed it on my lonesome.It isn't something I brag about much on this blog, because I've done little to maintain my bragging rights, but I'm pretty physically powerful just naturally. Even for my body type, which suggests I'm pretty strong, I beat expectations. It almost feels like cheating. Like, I'll look at something like that couch bed and think "I need another guy to do this" and then I'll think of a number of people I might call, and then I'll think "Oh wait, I forgot, I'm Gryphon" and then I'll just do the whole job on my own
 
I've been looking around for posters to cover the hole in my bedroom door. Wal Mart only had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle poster, and while I've nothing against TMNT, I don't know if I want to put it on my door, telling anyone who may see that I define myself as a TMNT fan. Other places I've seen posters are movie stores for the most part, and the same issue arises. I don't want to define myself by a band or movie. . I've got a number of paintings that are scenic or nature-focused, but posters don't like to do this. But I don't want to fix a painting or mirror to a door, since it's a swinging surface and might come off.

I'm probably going to have to get rid of a couch and loveseat, which is fine. New roommate has better stuff than my older things. I'll get rid of the old batch left from my old roommates and keep my new stuff. With the sudden influx of new furniture as well as the new roommate and his stuff, my place is looking way better than it has a right to, considering my income. I do hate throwing things out though.

After my initial 4 responses to my room for rent after the first night of posting it, my add was pushed back by newer ones, I stopped receiving responses and forgot about it. Recently though, I started getting a bunch of emails, as people became more desperate and started digging through the archives. I admittedly left my advertisement up, seeing how many responses I could get even though I've recently made a commitment. I'm like an unsatisfied and insecure girl on a dating website.

We found out why that one unit got raided a while back. Murderer in Montreal was on the lam and subletting from someone in my complex. Here's an article on the topic:

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ferdinando-belmonte-shooting-death-laval-kitchener-ontario-1.3793623