Dear Blog Thread,
As the meebo crowd might know already, I am going through some financial issues at this point in my life. It has happened to me before, but always in more of a minor way so that I was able to easily take care of it. But this time it is worse.
The story is as such. When I moved in with my roommate, we were incredibly good friends. We hung out all the time, so moving in with each other seemed like a good idea, plus his current roommate was moving out to go to school in England. After I moved in, we had this nice chat about rent, etc. He told me that, since he makes about twice as much in a month as I do, he would take care of the utilities for me, and I would just pay my half of the rent. I said thanks, and we went on like that.
We lived in harmony for over a year, him paying a little extra each month. About two months ago, he asked me one night (in a light, joking tone), when I was going to start paying utilities. I said "oh, right away" in the same tone and we had a good laugh.
Thursday night last week, having just arrived home from Chicagocon, my roommate knocks on my door and asks to come in. He proceeds to tell me that he is PISSED because the whole time we have been living together, he has been paying all the utilities himself without me ever, ever offering to chip in. And then he says to me "if you don't give me the money you owe me ($410, apparently) you're gonna need to find a new place to live".
I do not have $410.
So now I need to somehow scrape together far, far more money than I have to pay a roommate that pulled an extremely dick move just so we can go on living together. It is not a great atmosphere to live in. I have been looking for a new place to move to, but I haven't gotten any replies when I've been replying to ads. I have, however, gotten offers for my room, but I can't accept them until I have somewhere else to live.
But if I find somewhere to move to, and someone to move in here, I am going to tell my roommate to go fuck himself and not give him the rest of the money that I "owe" his sorry ass.
Oh, and my car needs repairs. And I have college to finance.
So yeah, my life right now is shit. Donations accepted. Please see my signature.