bleck!

fleas are horrible! they make me feel sooo unsanitary! these past two weeks have been hell. i always think i made the wrong choice by moving here. a.) i could have lived further away from campus and b.) picked a roommate i would have hit it off with and would have had to do minimal amounts of work on. c.) my roommates and i are just not hitting it off. i tend to believe i hit it off with all kinds of people and this time, it is like pulling teeth..i should have known considering it felt like that when i went to look at the place. i was just swayed by the size of the house and the fact that these students didn't have any pets.

now i'm living amoungst hundreds and thousands of fleas. we found out, what our landlady calls "exterminator" is actually a set of flea bombs.. so far she has 'exterminated' twice and we flea bombed twice. not to mention we've covered every nook and cranny with borax and vaccummed everyday. the fact that we still have a pest problem is well...a problem!!!! it's only been two weeks but my whole body is covered with flea bites (54 in total). GROSS I KNOW. i am constantly itchy and scratching and paranoid. i can't even pee in peace.

the only thing my roommates and i talk about are fleas. we don't do anything together. we have no living room b/c we don't have furniture in there because we don't want fleas on our future furniture! so they're on one end of the house and i'm on the other. things work out great that way since they are friends w/ each other and what not but i thought that the living room would be the place that would connect us all. there is no connecting since we have no couch! we don't even have guests over b/c of this flea problem.

again..blech. ugghhhhhhh. i am hoping and praying this works. i don't want to start the house hunt over again and i think about the past a lot so i know i'll always be thinking about the 'what if' stuff. i do always think about the tiny apartment i could have share w/ an awesome roommate but it was her cat that got in the way :-( could i have made an exception? blah.. who knows now. too late. i am trying hard to make this place work but this isn't helping AT ALL.