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I am a bit tired of snow, mostly because my community refuses to plow. I realize I never shared my most special roommate story with the Net yet so we will open with a prelude. Last night, she was trying to watch movies on her netbook and downloaded VLC. The little Firefox downloads popup window came up and she's like "I don't understand. I thought I saved it and this thing came up." I told her that's the downloads window and she had to click on the file to run and install it. "Oh so if I click on this, the program will run." No, I told her, you have to install it first. "Oh, I know that! I do this all the time!"

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So Friday and Saturday were the big snowstorm. My roomie went to her boyfriend's to get snowed in and apparently her dog was sick Saturday night. Sunday morning, at 1 p.m., she shows back up, screeching at me for not having already shoveled out her walk and KNOWING SHE WAS COMING HOME. She didn't call. I blow it off because yeah I'll shovel when I fucking feel like it. She won't shovel at all; she'll get someone else to do it. That's how she works. Anyway, a few hours later, she comes screaming to me that the dog is bleeding from under its tail and we need to take it to the vet and she's really scared. Now, I care about animals so I said I would shovel out my truck since it has four-wheel drive and maybe we could make it to an emergency vet. So I spend an hour doing this, which really hurt by the next day since my shovel is about as long as my arm. I come back in to take a break and not die, and she asks me when we will be able to drive. See, all that weekend I had had major eye problems and presently had double vision. I explained to her that I couldn't drive, but she could take my truck. I would go with her and as long as she went slow, we'd be fine. She absolutely refused.

At this point, her dog was bleeding more and extremely lethargic. I said again, the car will be fine, you can move up the seats and everything. She said she was too scared and would crash. I went upstairs to de-freeze and call my father to explain how my roomie is a selfish bitch who didn't care about her dog enough to DRIVE THE FUCKING CAR. Meanwhile, roomie is calling everyone she knows, trying to find a ride but since it was after the snowstorm, everyone was trapped. Dog is doing worse so she comes back for my help and I try to call my people. I should also mention that when I went out to finish shoveling the snow from the back of the truck, my car battery died. So yeah. Roomie eventually found someone 40 minutes away and forced them to drive her to take her dog to the vet, all the while wanting me to stay with her while she panicked. I did come down to check on the dog frequently, but her selfishness was more than I could stand.

The next day, she had to go pick up the dog from the vet and since she STILL WOULD NOT DRIVE, she forced her boyfriend to drive on frozen night roads to spend the night and get it in the morning. Dog came back fine. Roomie spent ALL DAY doing nothing but relaxing with boyfriend. Around 5 or so, I go out to find a jump for my car. I ask her boyfriend if he can shovel out the back a little since I was in a lot of pain. He said sure and starts doing that. Roomie comes outside and notices her car is still not cleared off and now icing, obviously. She starts screaming at her boyfriend to help her clear it and how he doesn't need to help me because I don't really need to drive right now. I tell her to stop bitching and turn on her car so it will at least warm up the ice. I also suggest she go to the store and get some de-icer. One, she doesn't know what that is. Two, she screams that she can't go to the store because her car is frozen. Whereupon I remind her that her boyfriend HAS A FUCKING CAR. Note, she made no attempt to help me find help for my battery-dead car or even asked her boyfriend if he could jump me.

I just cannot fathom her selfishness. I mean, I knew she was selfish, but I didn't think she would be so selfish as to refuse to drive out of sheer fear when her dog's life was on the line. Her dependence on the world to constantly save her is infuriating beyond belief. I can't stand her!

In other news, I have started final PJO book.