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There are times when I really dislike my apartment mate. Being sick is one of those times. I swear, she doesn't know the meaning of the word "quiet". I can hear her no matter where she is or what she's doing within the apartment! Take early this morning for example, when I was trying to go to sleep. First of all, some idiot in a car drives up with the bass turned up to the max and the volume as loud as it can go. Of course, the music is rap, which does nothing but gives me a headache and only served to worsen my headache. Then I hear my apartment call someone up and I can hear every damn word she's saying despite the fact that she's in her room which is on the opposite side of the apartment and both our doors are closed - I checked. Thankfully, it's not as loud as it would be if she was talking in the kitchen. In there, I can hear every single word so loud and clear that it makes it hard to concentrate on whatever I'm doing and will actually occasionally send hammers of dull pain through my head if I'm having a headache/feverish. Every single action of hers is just incredibly loud. When she's in the kitchen, I can pretty much accurately guess as to what's she's doing - cooking, cleaning, putting things away... Every time she closes a door (not including the front door because there's no way to soften that particular door), it's virtually a slam.
When she enters the apartment and one of us might be in, she calls out our name in a louder-than-needed and louder-than-normal voice. The apartment isn't that big - the acoustics are pretty damn good (a fact which i'm not too happy about), so there really isn't any need for her to raise her voice. She has an impressively loud voice, louder even than my sister's, and my sister can get loud. Anyway, today in particular, I'm really not feeling well. Headaches on and off, coupled with lightheadedness and almost dizziness. I'm so congested that I can't breathe through my nose and I didn't even have a good rest last night despite the fact that I took 2 teasponfuls of codeine. I woke up at random times because I couldn't breathe or I had to cough or, here's the kicker, because a certain someone was taking out the trash at 3 in the bloody morning. Then later today, I finally settle down to take a nap after several hours worth of note taking but I can't remain asleep because I wake up over and over again due to coughing and/or congestion. Since I can't breathe through my nose, I have to breathe through my mouth and when I don't breathe through there, I wake up because I can't bloody breathe. So I pretty much wake up from a light sleep every so often and then she comes back from going out with her friends. The first thing she does aside from making a lot of noise upon entry is call out my name. I have a whiteboard on my door which says "napping". She didn't bother to take a look at it, which I find somewhat annoying because she has her own whiteboard and she knows I've been sick for the past however many days. I had almost fallen asleep when I hear her call my name but I don't answer because 1) headache 2) can't breathe 3) groggy 4) I feel like shit. So I lay there hoping she'll quiet down but nope, more crashing and clanging and door slamming as she takes care of her laundry. Then upon returning from the damn laundry room, she calls my name out again. This time, I was up and writing this so I was like, "okay, whatever, I'll go see what the hell she wants". So I do, and she apologizes for calling for me earlier (she wanted to borrow some quartersr for the laundry) but then she doesn't let me go back to whatever I was doing despite the fact that she asked me how I was and I told her I was tired, congested, and not feeling well. Instead, she starts talking about her day and at this point, my headache is getting worse and the last thing I want is to listen to anyone regale me their tale of their day because I really don't give a damn.
Now, I'm trying to avoid being in her presence as much as possible. She invited me to eat with her but I declined because knowing her, she'll want to talk, and knowing me with my headache and apparently low-grade fever, will not want to talk or even listen. I'm starving, but while she was out, I managed to sneak in a yogurt so that's what I'll have. Hopefully she'll have this meeting later tonight (she doesn't know if she will or if she won't) so I'll be able to go out and maybe snag a quick shower with no interference.
Today, though my throat barely even hurts now, I seem to have had a temperature for most of the stupid day. Of course, the coughing is still here and the congestion is worse but hey, I'm still alive and have work to do. Most of the day I've spent typing up chapter notes for Biology although after awhile, my head starts to hurt and I feel a lot worse to the point where it feels like I'm definitely lightheaded and a bit dizzy. At this point, I don't know if I'll get better any faster because I'm simply not getting enough rest. I almost got enough rest about two nights ago but then I was woken up at 830 AGAIN because of the banging and clanking that was going on in the kitchen. And once it was known I was awake, then came the constant talking. She said she took care of her sick roommate last year, but clearly, that roommate must not have been all that sick if she could withstand the sheer volume my apartment mate easily brings out. I'm so miserable around her that I could practically cry tears of frustration but nobody likes a crybaby. I'd ask her to be more quiet, but that doesn't have any effect as my boyfriend asked her and her friends to try to be as quiet as possible last night and she agreed, but in the end, everything was the same volume as before. Only reason it didn't bother me as much as it's bothering me now is because I had my music on and was feeling kind of decent despite my headache. Now, I don't want to listen to my music because it's worsening my headache, hell the clicking of my keyboard keys are kind of worsening my headache, but most of all, I don't want to listen to her, but sadly, I don't have a choice. I kind of really wish I was home right now because at least there, if someone says "shh, she's sleeping" or "shh, her head hurts", I'll actually get some damned peace.
Tomorrow, her parents are coming over. Sounds awfully rude of me to say it but, I really am not looking forward to that. Unless by some miraculous power I'm 100% healthy and normal tomorrow, I'll probably be having a really bad day tomorrow. Hey, kind of just like today! though today can't be a complete failure since I typed up 5 chapters worth of notes for biology.
When she enters the apartment and one of us might be in, she calls out our name in a louder-than-needed and louder-than-normal voice. The apartment isn't that big - the acoustics are pretty damn good (a fact which i'm not too happy about), so there really isn't any need for her to raise her voice. She has an impressively loud voice, louder even than my sister's, and my sister can get loud. Anyway, today in particular, I'm really not feeling well. Headaches on and off, coupled with lightheadedness and almost dizziness. I'm so congested that I can't breathe through my nose and I didn't even have a good rest last night despite the fact that I took 2 teasponfuls of codeine. I woke up at random times because I couldn't breathe or I had to cough or, here's the kicker, because a certain someone was taking out the trash at 3 in the bloody morning. Then later today, I finally settle down to take a nap after several hours worth of note taking but I can't remain asleep because I wake up over and over again due to coughing and/or congestion. Since I can't breathe through my nose, I have to breathe through my mouth and when I don't breathe through there, I wake up because I can't bloody breathe. So I pretty much wake up from a light sleep every so often and then she comes back from going out with her friends. The first thing she does aside from making a lot of noise upon entry is call out my name. I have a whiteboard on my door which says "napping". She didn't bother to take a look at it, which I find somewhat annoying because she has her own whiteboard and she knows I've been sick for the past however many days. I had almost fallen asleep when I hear her call my name but I don't answer because 1) headache 2) can't breathe 3) groggy 4) I feel like shit. So I lay there hoping she'll quiet down but nope, more crashing and clanging and door slamming as she takes care of her laundry. Then upon returning from the damn laundry room, she calls my name out again. This time, I was up and writing this so I was like, "okay, whatever, I'll go see what the hell she wants". So I do, and she apologizes for calling for me earlier (she wanted to borrow some quartersr for the laundry) but then she doesn't let me go back to whatever I was doing despite the fact that she asked me how I was and I told her I was tired, congested, and not feeling well. Instead, she starts talking about her day and at this point, my headache is getting worse and the last thing I want is to listen to anyone regale me their tale of their day because I really don't give a damn.
Now, I'm trying to avoid being in her presence as much as possible. She invited me to eat with her but I declined because knowing her, she'll want to talk, and knowing me with my headache and apparently low-grade fever, will not want to talk or even listen. I'm starving, but while she was out, I managed to sneak in a yogurt so that's what I'll have. Hopefully she'll have this meeting later tonight (she doesn't know if she will or if she won't) so I'll be able to go out and maybe snag a quick shower with no interference.
Today, though my throat barely even hurts now, I seem to have had a temperature for most of the stupid day. Of course, the coughing is still here and the congestion is worse but hey, I'm still alive and have work to do. Most of the day I've spent typing up chapter notes for Biology although after awhile, my head starts to hurt and I feel a lot worse to the point where it feels like I'm definitely lightheaded and a bit dizzy. At this point, I don't know if I'll get better any faster because I'm simply not getting enough rest. I almost got enough rest about two nights ago but then I was woken up at 830 AGAIN because of the banging and clanking that was going on in the kitchen. And once it was known I was awake, then came the constant talking. She said she took care of her sick roommate last year, but clearly, that roommate must not have been all that sick if she could withstand the sheer volume my apartment mate easily brings out. I'm so miserable around her that I could practically cry tears of frustration but nobody likes a crybaby. I'd ask her to be more quiet, but that doesn't have any effect as my boyfriend asked her and her friends to try to be as quiet as possible last night and she agreed, but in the end, everything was the same volume as before. Only reason it didn't bother me as much as it's bothering me now is because I had my music on and was feeling kind of decent despite my headache. Now, I don't want to listen to my music because it's worsening my headache, hell the clicking of my keyboard keys are kind of worsening my headache, but most of all, I don't want to listen to her, but sadly, I don't have a choice. I kind of really wish I was home right now because at least there, if someone says "shh, she's sleeping" or "shh, her head hurts", I'll actually get some damned peace.
Tomorrow, her parents are coming over. Sounds awfully rude of me to say it but, I really am not looking forward to that. Unless by some miraculous power I'm 100% healthy and normal tomorrow, I'll probably be having a really bad day tomorrow. Hey, kind of just like today! though today can't be a complete failure since I typed up 5 chapters worth of notes for biology.