High Standards
Tom Gara (tomgara.nomadlife.org) and I are on the hunt for a new home. While Pam and Brian's place is amazing and I could stay in their spare bedroom until I die, eventually I think they will want to be able to come home in the evening to an apartment that doesn’t smell of shirtless Australian and drunk American. Just a guess.
We've begun screening potential lifemates for the dream house. Really though, what criteria do you look for in a roommate, and how can you really fact-check if someone is clean, quiet and neat (promises promises). References alone aren't enough. An ex-flatmate has pretty shaky credibility. People are willing to say just about anything to get rid the guy who has no problem napping naked in a roommate's bed spooning with a large bowl of spaghetti. It's especially hard when all the possible bunker buddies are still on different continents.
But never fear! Tom Gara and I are pure genius.
We managed to figure it out in a four second MSN conversation over CANDIDATE #1 (kent.nomadlife.org). We've outlined what's really important to us in a roommate, and a flawless way to test said standards:
Megan: says
I like to screen all my potential roommates for wit, culinary skills, and makeout-ocity.
tom - throat-clap, or baby-tummy? says:
yeah. get him to "pin the tail on the donkey" - send through a jpeg of a vagina, have him mark the special spots
tom - throat-clap, or baby-tummy? says:
we'll see if he is a good as Dody claims....
Foolproof.
We've begun screening potential lifemates for the dream house. Really though, what criteria do you look for in a roommate, and how can you really fact-check if someone is clean, quiet and neat (promises promises). References alone aren't enough. An ex-flatmate has pretty shaky credibility. People are willing to say just about anything to get rid the guy who has no problem napping naked in a roommate's bed spooning with a large bowl of spaghetti. It's especially hard when all the possible bunker buddies are still on different continents.
But never fear! Tom Gara and I are pure genius.
We managed to figure it out in a four second MSN conversation over CANDIDATE #1 (kent.nomadlife.org). We've outlined what's really important to us in a roommate, and a flawless way to test said standards:
Megan: says
I like to screen all my potential roommates for wit, culinary skills, and makeout-ocity.
tom - throat-clap, or baby-tummy? says:
yeah. get him to "pin the tail on the donkey" - send through a jpeg of a vagina, have him mark the special spots
tom - throat-clap, or baby-tummy? says:
we'll see if he is a good as Dody claims....
Foolproof.
4 Comments:
That's asking a lot from a Canadian.
Do you want me to bring anything from this part of the world?
Kent, can you bring a city poster for the office here?
I'm not sure if city posters exist of Grand Forks, but I will try to get one of Calgary.
Makeoutocity?? oh come on!!!!!!!
YER uncle
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