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2005 Mar 18 (Fri)

visitor or sinister?
so starting yesterday evening, one of my roomies is having two friends (from back East) stay over until tuesday. i didn't mind, really, when i thought about it two weeks ago, but then a few situations have presented themselves that have made me re-consider my willingness to house guests:

his guests are two girls
both are using Louis' and my bathroom ad libitum*

don't get me wrong, i have nothing against women-folk visiting. however, i do have a problem with them staying for a few days, since it makes it awkward to walk around in a bath towel or what-not. (my mom taught me that in a two-gender household, it is polite to not do such things, and i can't help but feel the household is two-gender when guests are of a different gender). i consider it a common courtesy to tell a household of one gender when the "friends" are actually of a different gender. in other words, state it plainly at the beginning, so there is no doubt. the other problem is commensurate with that, since the gals are both using my primary locale of maintaining my cleanliness. compounding these is the fact that tenth week is starting up, i'm just getting over a flu, and i have a lot to do and don't need more variables that impinge upon my daily habits. with all this, i must say i'm glad to be alive, feeling better (after having had the flu for a week), and stoked that this quarter is almost over. * i originally had written ad libertum, not remembering the forms of the second word in the shortened form ad lib. (my Latin isn't what it should be, and i'm in the process of improving it.) anyway, i corrected it the following day because of Angelo's insightful post on why people like me might do such a thing, and only now (March 13, 2005) have i made this note. better late than never. :)

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