{sigh} i hate conflict. i think my roommates are developing a strong distaste for my visitors. i can understand their hesitance to keep dealing with people sleeping on the living room floor, but i also feel like it’s a bit unfair of them to keep silent about their concern until the day before my friends arrive. ugh. what a mess.
i emailed alex and iffy asking if they wouldn’t mind considering a hotel room for friday and saturday nights, and alex, it turns out, does mind. in fact, i think he’s rather upset with me for even suggesting it. granted, he doesn’t know that leila is also coming, and so that may make a difference, but i can also understand his frustration. he is completely right when he says that he checked with me multiple times to make sure this was a good weekend. and i told him multiple times that it was. and as far as i knew, i was telling the truth.
i told my roommates over a month ago that alex and iffy would be coming, so they knew there would be two people here this weekend. i told them last week that leila was also coming, so there would be a third. and yet unzi still waited until last night–a full week after i told them the situation and asked them to let me know if there was a problem–to tell me that she is also having a potential med school student stay on friday and saturday.
i don’t understand why she didn’t tell me this earlier, so that i could have worked out plans with alex, iffy, and leila in advance. i don’t want my roommates to hate me, but i also don’t want to force my friends to spend money on a hotel after i previously told them they could all stay here.
anyway. frustration. my roommates are decent people, but not exactly the most communicative pair in the world.
