hannukah harry

so a couple hours ago my roommate and i had a bit of a fight. i actually thought he was gonna make it physical. it was because i came home from work at 2am and he woke up and hten wanted me to turn off my desk lamp but i refused, as i was up doing work. but that's super simplyfiying it. here's the back story...

so i just moved from my parents home to my college town, i was commuting and found a cheap sublet, but it was sharing a room with one person, 9 people in teh house total including me. so the day i moved in, my roommate's sitting in our room, barely acknowledges me, and doesn't offer to help me move my stuff in. not only that, he hasn't done anything to clean the room, there are couple dirty dishes on the floor, and it looks like it hasn't been vaccumed in years. and the previous roommate had left stuff in teh room, he didn't bother getting rid of it. so as i'm unpacking, i decide that i'd like to put my stuff in the closet, the only problem is, his clothes are taking up about 70% of the hanging area, underneath the hanging clothes he's got boxes from teh front of the closet to the back, and the shelf above is completely packed with his stuff. i asked him 2 times to move his stuff, and then finally i moved it to make room on the floor. he later cramped his clothes onto his side of the closet. there was no dresser for me. he didn't help me bring up one from downstairs, nor did he offer to help when he saw me bringing it up the stairs.

we have lofts. one ladder between the two. while i don't mind jumping down, he won't. but whenever i leave the ladder so he can get to it from bed without waking me, he puts it away so i have to jump.

our sleeping schdules are really different. i'm a day sleeper, he's a night sleeper. this is proabably our biggest problem. you see, i feel it's important to be curtious and considerate. he doesn't. right now, i'm sitting under my loft, a towel and my comforter hanging down from the loft so that i'm in my own little area. the light is blocked by the comforter and towel, i'm using head phones for the sound. only the sound of the comp. and typing are there. but he wakes up at the lightest sounds, like jsut walking in after work. then he complains about the light, without even trying to fall asleep. i've taken my laptop downstairs with a chord a few times, but now i've got my desktop back so i won't be doing that anymore. he told me the light was the big problem, so i even went out and bought him one of those travel blindfolds, although taht's kinda more to be an ass tahn anything.

when i'm sleeping in the early afternoon, he's sitting in the room watching tv, listening to mp3's on his computer, he even left yesterday afternoon adn didn't bother closing the door. he came back 2 hours later, i finally got up about 10 min after he left.

we have room in our parking lot for 8 cars, although it sometimes means moving cars to get people out. 3 times last week i couldn't park in the lot because he didn't park right, and even after asking him to move his car, he didn't, so when i got home at 2 am and everyone's asleep, i had to find street parking 15 minutes (walking) from my house.

so this weekend i rearranged my stuff, i switched my yaffa blocks with my dresser, and had to move the lazy boy a foot in order to put in right. now the cahir is "too close to the tv." and he wants me to move it back. instead of talking to me, he left me a note saying he was going ot move in wednesday if i hadn't by then.

i got home from work and he moved it a bit. so i moved it back. i diddn't care if it woke him, although i heard him wake up from my keys as always. then i pulled the covers down, turned the light on under the loft, he bitched. he even tried to come underneath a couple times to turn it off, i stopped him.

i'm not willing to walk around my room like i'm a guest. i was willing to be considerate and compromise, but my patience has worn to the point of being non-existence. since other than late at night i'm not home monday through friday, i left him a note saying the dresser wasn't moving, he'd have to learn to deal with the light, and i would continue trying to make as little noise as possible. if that was a problem he could move out or, i'd even move out if he bought me out of my sublet or found someone to do that.

i can't think of anything else to do. am i wrong? i've had 5 roommates before, and never had any problems based on my lifestyle differing from them.

any suggestions? words of advice? horror stories of your own?