tips for living with roommates

This post is written especially for my roommate Julie, who sometimes fails to pick up on social cues. Nevertheless, I love her dearly.

1. When the Elders are over, and one of them decides to sit on the luvsac, since we have limited seating and the luvsac happened to be open, do not sit on it with him. Especially do not crawl onto the luvsac and lie down behind the poor Elder. It doesn't matter that you're not touching him. He will be terrified.
2. When your roommate tells you that she made soup and has leftovers, and that you are welcome to help yourself to the leftovers, this offer only applies to that particular batch of soup. It does not apply to all food in the refrigerator, nor does it apply to batches of soup or other food that may or may not be made in the future.
3. When your roommate promises to leave her camera in the living room so that you can load the pictures we took onto the computer, and she forgets to leave the camera out, you probably should not dig through her closet and drawers searching for the camera. Just wait until she comes home. Pretty please.
4. When one of your roommates gets mad at you for the first time, you should probably realize that this is bound to happen. No matter who you are and who you are living with, chances are someone's going to get annoyed at some point. So do not start looking for a new place to live. Buck up and deal with it.
5. Just because the food in the refrigerator is from an asian restaurant does not mean that it belongs to your asian roommate. Sometimes non-asians eat asian food too. So please do not eat it. Those leftovers were so good and that's all I really wanted to eat when I came home.
6. If we are hosting FHE at our apartment and you don't want to come, just tell us. Do not tell us you're taking the trash out and then never come back. And if you do choose to sneak out with the excuse that you're taking out the trash, do not get mad when we laugh at you for sneaking out.