[stolen underwear & other freshman horrors]

Nugget and I just concluded a chat about our college experience and all the random craziness that accompanied it. Mostly, we talked about people. The people we lived with. The people who drove us to madness and left scars. In honor of those people, it is List Time:

People to avoid at all costs when you're a freshman:

1. People who have long stringy blond hair and steal hairbrushes and gel from your bureau.
2. People who walk around barefoot and then try to put their dirty feet on your clean bed.
3. People who hang posters of James Van Der Beek in your dorm without your consent.
















4. People who love soccer AND Dave Matthews Band AND Tori Amos AND giant keyrings with 800 pounds of clunkin- in- the- middle- of- the- night- to- wake- you- and- your- roommates- up keychains that say stupid things like, I don't do mornings. (That complete combination, all you Tori fans)...
5. People who recite lines from 'Dawson's Creek' during times of stress, seriously.
6. People who buy GAP jeans in size 2 (because they were somehow able to pull them on without bursting the seams) just so they can say, my GAP jeans are a size 2.
7. People who dance around the room to Rusted Root and Phish until CD owner is prepared to break disks to end the madness.
8. People who hang posters in the bathroom of a college dorm with kittens rolling around in a basket full of yarn balls. Again, I'm totally serious.
9. People who wear their roommates underwear while said roommate is on spring break (and other roommate catches thieving roommate only to report ridiculous underwear vandalism to underwear victim). Ew.
10. People who told professors they had breast cancer as an excuse for missing multiple weeks of class. Okay, so really, people who are pathological liars about everything.

Bonus: People who have boyfriends named Kyle.

Wow, that was my roommate experience freshman year. Just for the record, Nugget and I were fortunate to lose the poster person following an evening of my threatening to punch her in the face if she didn't back off. Luckily, she moved out.

(Photo: courtesy of James Van Der Beek fan spot)

And just for the record, I DO feel dirty having that picture up there. Sooo dirty.