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Liar Liar Pants on Fire

My guilty conscience has gone and turned into a self-righteous, snotty little wench.
All I did was tell a couple of tiny white lies embellish a fact or two,
and now it's gone all ape-shiza crazy on me; it's not letting me live peacefully
until I participate in some major confessional time. So here I am. Hi.

Last week, I had to fill out a Roommate Preference Form for my time at Oxford.
Long story short, I am on a mission to room with my best friend Lauren, because
it'll make it all the easier to transform a drab little dorm room into a magnificent,
pink-and-purple land of paradise with some Harry Potter posters thrown in for good measure.

You just can't do that with a stranger, can you?

There's only one tiny little problem.
She and I have completely different lifestyles -
she's normal and healthy and clean and I'm ... I'm almost there. Almost.

So in order to cheat the system help the computers make the right algorithmic decision,
this is what I submitted, verbatim.

I'm not extremely neat, but like to keep things at least tidy and organized. I'm not a really late sleeper or an early bird, but I don't mind living with either one! I do like to go out and party on weekends, but am pretty much a homebody during the week.

At Stanford, I have a really close and strong relationship with my roommate, so I'd love to have something similar at Oxford. I'd love to have someone who would be willing to go to London for a weekend, or who'd go to afternoon tea or any kind of fun adventure. Of course, I don't expect us to be attached at the hip and am really looking forward to making new friends in Stanford House and with native Oxford students, but it'd be really nice to have a roommate who I can go home to after a long day and get to chat with and be comfortable with!

I've taken the liberty of italicizing and turning red {out of shame} all of the false statements.

Let me backtrack and edit some of the things I said.

I'm not extremely neat at all, but like to keep things at least tidy and organized.


I'm not a really late sleeper or an early bird, but I don't mind living with either one!

FALSE.

Sleep time - average, ~2am.
Wakey wakey time - average, ~7:45am.
Be on my schedule, roommate, or crumble.

I do like to go out and party on weekends.

FRIDAYS

SATURDAYS

SUNDAYS

...but am pretty much a homebody during the week.

ALL OTHER DAYS

And then, there's this whole business:

At Stanford, I have a really close and strong relationship with my roommate, so I'd love to have something similar at Oxford. I'd love to have someone who would be willing to go to London for a weekend, or who'd go to afternoon tea or any kind of fun adventure. Of course, I don't expect us to be attached at the hip and am really looking forward to making new friends in Stanford House and with native Oxford students, but it'd be really nice to have a roommate who I can go home to after a long day and get to chat with and be comfortable with!

I don't know anything other than having a best friend as a roommate, or a roommate as a best friend. I can probably survive without that being the case, but after knowing how wonderful it is to be attached at the hip - I just can't not live with a roommate who I can go home to every day and get to chat with and be so comfortable with that pants are optional, and conversations border on poop talk. I need to live with someone who's spontaneous like me and who would want very badly to just up and visit London for a weekend, and who'd go to tea or ALL adventures offered. I basically very under-exaggerated this paragraph; what I meant was: a best friend roommate is IMPERATIVE.

Get to work, algorithms. 

Good luck on dealing with me for three months, LoLo.

28 comments

  1. Hahahaha I'm dying over the Friday Saturday Sunday All other days part. Dying. This is hilarious!

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  2. this is so cute!! hehehe hopefully the roommate situation works out to your favor! how exciting that you're going to oxford.. i heard london!

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  3. hahaha this is adorable! the way you write is so engaging, it's lovely to read :) i hope you get the room mate you want!
    the hobbit kitchen x

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  4. haha this is so sweet. What is a little white lie when it's to be with a friend! going into this post I expected some intense life-changing, possibly jail-causing confession! I think you'll be fine =)

    { Teffys Perks Blog } X

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  5. Haha, this is hysterical. I forgot you were going to London! I'm so jealous!!! I hope you have an amazing time there (if you're with Lauren or not)...

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  6. haha, hopefully it works! It would be nicer if they'd just let you come straight out and demand the roommate you want most! :P

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  7. the pants are optional part is a must - my roommate and I last year were definitely on that level! Thanks for visiting our blog :)

    mi vivere

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  8. This post reminds me of the fact that you're one of my favorite people. I hope you can be roomies!! I didn't know you were going to go to Oxford?????!!

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  9. Sounds like you are having a great time in collage. Cherish these moments.

    Ali of Dressing Ken

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  10. That's hilarious! Good luck getting to roomie with your bestie. Agreed who you live with makes a HUGE difference :)

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    1. It does, doesn't it? Home should be your favorite place on earth! Having a stranger as a roomie would just home seem so awkward, and I would hate that!

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  11. Haha brilliant, I hope it works for you!

    Luckily it's pretty unusual that you have to share a room in the UK, so never had to deal with it :)

    Hmm maybe...

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    1. Thanks! Haha lucky you! Living with someone else can be quite the tricky situation, but it's also so wonderful when you love your roommate to death - so that's why I'm crossing my fingers for it to be bestie! :)

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  12. Haha your post is hilarious, and I'm totally jealous that you're going to England! I've never been :)

    thoseghosts

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    1. Thank you! & to be honest, it's going to be so cold and wet, I bet you won't be that jealous of me after about two weeks :)

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  13. SO ENTERTAINING!! Wonderfully written :) So glad I stumbled across your blog! If you ever need any tips of where to explore in London please feel free to ask :)

    Rachel [at] AMomentInTime.

    xo

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    1. Awh, well I'm glad you found me, as well! Let's be friends! :) I will most likely bombard you with London questions in the next few weeks or so, so thanks for that nice offer!

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  14. hahahahah this is the funniest story I love it, you are a great story teller. I always tell little white lies here and there and I am starting to get a little too good at them. Its a little scary because that is not something you should be good at!

    http://haileycheyanne.blogspot.com/

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  15. lovely blog! totally following

    xo Jessica
    www.NewlyLoved.com
    follow back if ya like

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  16. Hahaha great post!

    latroublemaker.blogspot.com

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  17. Haha this was hilarious! In my very year at uni, I was terrified that my flatmates and I wouldn't get along! But thankfully, it all worked out for the best !

    Hayfa
    http://www.londonloafers.com

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  18. Ahhh Caroline! This post made me LOL for sure. Staying in is the best thing ever in a dorm rooms surrounded by friends. I wish you luck!! And Oxford is going to be amazing, I can't wait to follow along here!

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  19. ahah! Just found your blog. This is great. Keep it coming, you have a new follower!!


    www.styleinterplay.com

    .....

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  20. You are so funny girl! I know everything is going to work out just fine at Oxford.

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  21. lol.. i love your fri, sat, sun pictures..
    as long as you are lying for a good cause..

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thank you!

xx Caroline