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Journal Some Woman's Journal: Ramble Without Perspective, Part 3 24

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Here is the third and (Deity willing!) the final episode in my saga. If you haven't already, you should read Part 1 and Part 2.

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ACT THE FOURTH

SW comes home from class at 9:00 PM. She chats a little with Spex and Shorty. This is when she learns that at about 5:00 The Crazy delivered an apology to Shorty in near tears. She wanted Shorty to know that she was deeply sorry that Shorty had to get involved in this and she wondered why SW disliked her so much. The impression from Shorty was that The Crazy perceived some long-held hatred on my part. The truth is that these conversations that I am sharing with you now are the only words that were ever exchanged between the two (SW and The Crazy) except when The Crazy wanted Some Guy to fix her computer, which he regrettably did (took almost 2 hours, too!).

SW proceeds to enter her room. It is here that she finds three notes[1] under her door. There is no apparent order, and they are as follows:

Note 1:

No, I didn't attribute it to Wit[2], b/c Wit is courteous and polite @ least...Even if she does side w/ you when you talk behind my back. Next year will be GREAT! when you Aren't Here. CAN"T WAIT!

Note 2:

And you are right about one thing...I shouldn't have named Spex.[3] Earlier in the year I did feel like she was rude to me{4] when I talked to her, but that was a long time ago, is in the past, and hasn't happened recently. I shouldn't have named her. I apologize to her for that. I 100% retract having written her name and I GIVE YOU 100% of the CREDIT! I should have written 'ome Woman' after the 'S'[5]

Note 3: This one I've scanned for posterity.

MUST SUCK for YOU TO BE SUCH A BITCH...+ on top of everything know that I am right and you are SO WRONG. I'd feel sorry for you, but oh yeah...you're a BITCH- don't have to

[1] This is beginning to feel like freaking high school.
[2] This line implies that she went peering underneath everybody's door until she found the one with pieces of paper tucked in the room.
[3] From this statement, we can see that she actually read my Post-It note to Wit, which means that she actually dug the note out from under the door of Wit's room (I had shoved it fairly far in- you would probably have needed tweezers or very nimble fingers). How creepy is that?
[4] The Crazy perceiving somebody as rude? Noooo...Can't be.
[5] Spex's name begins with the first letter of my last name, so what she was suggesting is that instead of "Jane and Sarah" she should have written "Jane and Smith." Crazy witty, I tell you! Boy did she get me on that one! Guffaw!

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ACT THE FIFTH

At 11:00 that evening, Wit arrives home from work.

SW: Want to see the little presents that appeared under my door today?
Wit: Sure.
SW: *reads aforementioned three notes*
Wit: *worriedly* Oh no. This has gone too far. I'm going to talk to her. Want to do some role playing?
SW: Sure...
Wit: Okay, pretend to be a bitch.
SW: Okay. Not too hard. According to these notes, I've got that down!

So Wit and Some Woman commence with their role playing, and not the kind that requires funny dice, though Wit is more well-acquainted with that than she would like to admit. After this, a very brave Wit indeed has a talk with The Crazy, explaining that the majority of the residents feel cooler with the windows open, but that we can all agree to keep the shades closed. And that is that.

Or is it?

Wit entered her room that night to find a 3 page letter from The Crazy. Upon closer inspection, this writing appears to contain direct quotes from the Missing Response that was posted in the kitchen. The text is as follows:

[Wit]:
First and foremost, I know that that note was on behalf of [Some Woman], much more than "the residents in the house" or the sorority.

Second, it was be/c of her personal, groundless grudge against me.

Third, if you/she is going to make and argument, base it in fact.
*It's only 10 degrees cooler today.
*Yet it is roughly 20 degrees! cooler in the house [1] and it's not humid. Don't even TRY to tell me it's less comfortable.[2]
[Some Woman] hasn't been home all day. She doesn't need windows open when she's NOT EVEN HERE.[3]
She is just attempting to pull a power trip on me to piss me off + she's using the sorority to do so.

I would kind of like to talk to you in person for a few minutes, being she has dragged you into this. [4]

Actually, I would REALLY like to sit down w/ her [5] + get to the bottom of this stupid... whatever it is?!

*But I certainly don't expect you to mediate something like that if you don't feel comfortable. Worst case scenario: she moves out in a month...so I'll keep ignoring her until then.

*I hope you don't feel hostility toward me like she does. You know me a tiny bit better. She has never bothered + always been rude if I tried.
I just hope you aren't dreading the fact that I'm living here next yr. Like she wants you too. [6]

Despite the way she tries to make it seem, I do not at all try to make living here miserable. [7]
* I pay my rent on time
* I clean up after myself
* I do my chores
* I am POLITE (to people who are kind enough to show me that same courtesy)
* I mind my own business and stay out of people's way

I am sorry that she involved you in this. [8] If you feel comfortable, please come down to my room so I can apologize + get things cleared up with you in person.

Thanks! :)
-[The Crazy]

[1] These numbers brought to you by My Ass, Inc.
[2] I'm not going to, dumbass. Of course it's more comfortable with a nearly 30 degree reduction in the heat index.
[3] It's this little thing that we like to call "allowing the system to reach thermodynamic equilibrium" Learn it; love it.
[4] Do you recall the note that started this all? The one that Wit wrote of her own accord? Yes.
[5] I call bullshit. That's right folksies, she wants to talk
[6] Again with the implication that Wit is incapable of independent thought!
[7] Her words, not mine. She is the only person who has spoken of any desire on anybody's part to make anybody miserable (you may recall this from the "lost response" when she accused Spex and myself of desiring her misery).
[8] First, this is almost verbatim the apology that she gave to Shorty. Second, this whole letter is amazingly insulting of Wit's intelligence and general ability to think.

So, there you have it. Two days of fun. 8 pages of "notes" (plus a post-it note)! And anytime anybody does or says something that disagrees with The Crazy is it because they're taking orders from me. All with minimal effort on my part. Ah, to have such power!

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  • Man, she really is out there with dillusions of "she's out to get me". Err...wait, I didn't mean to say that... SW QUIT MAKING ME SAY THAT, you're not the boss of me!!!

    The voices tell me it's time to wash the front porch (for the third time today), maybe Crazy will join me...

    Just kidding. You don't have to worry about missing soap operas during the day. I used to work at one place that actually had a policy of NOT putting two women on the same crew (we did 24/7 operations, with 5 crews rotating 8 hour s

  • The assessment I gave in LJ still stands. *shakes head in sadness and wonderment*

  • worst case scenario for you: she keeps it up for a month.

    worst case for her: she keeps it up indefinately.

    at least you don't have to be her.
  • Oh, I'm told I'm an evil, evil person, but where I to walk a mile in your shoes [1], I would definitely stay. Sure, she is Crazy (with a capital Crazy), but imagine what you're doing to her just being there! I know it's mean to take delight in someone's misfortune, but when they've mired themselves in self-imposed misfortune, I don't think it's unethical to prolong it. So, stay there another year! It'll be good for your soul[2]!

    [1] I'd be a mile away and I'd have your shoes
    .
    [2] Void where prohibited. Not v
    • She doesn't even have to stay there next year, just have someone "accidentally" say it to someone else while The Crazy is around. Something like, "Hey did you hear, SW isn't leaving! Isn't that great!" ;-)
    • I was actually considering what TL suggested- just kind of ask Wit if that one room is still available because my housing plans for next year just aren't working out while The Crazy is within earshot. :^)
  • Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • ok, I've figured her out! She's actually a lesbian and she's madly in love with you and frustrated b/c she can't have you!

  • a year? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by SolemnDragon ( 593956 ) * <solemndragon@ g m a il.com> on Friday July 30, 2004 @08:41AM (#9842497) Homepage Journal
    if you stay, she won't make it another year. She'll do something really crazy and get herself thrown out. I watched this happen with my upstairs neighbour. I say stay, and document her behaviour. Don't push her, but don't care, either. Breeze right past and say, um, oh wait, i got nothing against you, and you can be polite and that's that...

    which she won't- expect her to get worse and worse until she becomes so intolerable that everyone throws her out, because all she'll do next year is pick a new arch-enemy.

    I know; i've been the new arch-enemy for crazy upstairs. *shudder* gods, was she nuts. You're fine. You're cool. this woman's gonna end up in the psych ward, you wait. write it all down and if anyone asks you later, like a lawyer, tell them you were afraid she might do something and nobody believed you so a friend told you to start writing it down.

    Our crazy used to start screaming fights with anyone she could find to yell at... on holidays, at 3 AM.

    Hooo, yeah. She didn't last.

    Sol
  • I would.

    Why have you not confronted this nutball?

    Seriously. This is all fun n games and stuff, but this girl thinks you hate her for no apparent reason.

    Is she crazy? Maybe. But I would make her talk to me instead of this stupid "note passing shit".
    • ok, why did that sound harsher than I meant it to?

      Maybe because I can't stand stupidity.

      Anyway, hope you don't take offense.

      And now I wait 2 frigging minutes. Shit.
      • I just don't understand why you've always hated me. I would really like to discuss this with you.

        Why are you making me wait two minutes?! I don't know what you have against me.
    • Because I'm non-confrontational, and because I prefer to let people make fools of themselves by foaming at the mouth instead of trying to reason with them (remember that I have not a written a single note nor responded to any of hers).

      And also because talking to her would do little good- she has a history of taking things waaaay too personally. In the letter when she mentions Spex being rude to her, these conversation were essentially demands on The Crazy's part regarding things that needed to be fixed wi
    • you hate her for no apparent reason.

      Well then, if there' gonna be all this hatred, SW should at least give her a reason to hate. She should steal a pair or 3 of The Crazy's "undergarments"[1] and pay some poor girl at the clinic on campus to wear them for a few hours. Then slip them back in her drawer. She'll never know where the crabs came from and every time she squirms or scratches SW will have the last laugh. ;)

      -Ab
    • I kinda agree... Nothing pisses off a notetaker like confronting her and making her say her feelings. Hell, when Wit confronter her, she STILL got a note. Damn.

      I'd put a note on my door that simply states, "If you pass me a note, I'm burning it before I read it. If you have a problem, talk to me directly you cowardly bitch".

      Well... maybe take off that last part ;-)
  • Start [thetoque.net] your [geocities.com] own [holysmoke.org] cult [fadetoblack.com]. Ask everyone who was invited to wear the same clothes/costume as each other. You may or may not wear the same as everyone else. White is always a good choice.

    Light candles and talk about Ramtha [virginia.edu] and the glories of JZ Knight.

    Invite everyone to drink Kool-Aid [faithweb.com]. Or Kook-Aide, or whatever.

    If you decide on water, find some powdered wine... (see also previous step)

    Create elaborate rituals that everyone must follow at predetermined times of the day and night. Loud is good.

    Convince
  • No matter where I've live or worked, there has always been at least one person like that: determined that he/she was right about something that was clearly wrong (to any other sane person around), sneaky about enforcing that opinion (fact to them) on others, and very distorted about how they present past events to different people (aka talking behind everyone's back).

    Where I live, one side of the house gets the full brunt of the afternoon sun. Windows open or closed make far less difference because the w
  • Can you say 'pesecution complex', boys and girls? I knew you could.

    Much as I'd like to echo the advice "maybe you should consider sticking around just to torment her next year", my concern is that she's going to go messily sack of hammers if you do, and I doubt that she's going to do so quietly alone in her room, staring at ceiling and naming the stars. She's got serious issues.
    Not the least of which is that she still writes like a high school cheerleader. Junior varsity, no less. I was surprised that all o

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