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by Salena Casha
So, I’m the type of person that really values alone time and, like, I haven’t watched TV in over a decade – I don’t really don’t enjoy being in, like, the same space as one because of the #vibes and also I had a really bad experience once with a roommate who loved Secret Lives of Mormon Wives – I can’t talk about it, and so, look, I’m not going to tell you what to do with your eyeballs if you don’t tell me what to do with my laundry, but I do like having, like, a family dinner maybe two or three times a week, and you can totally have a friend over but if they’re in the common spaces I think it’s just courtesy to give a heads up – like not ask for permission necessarily – but like if Jason is in our living room with the lights off when I get home and I’ve never met Jason that’s like, not cool? Like, we can both agree on that right? So, at least a soft intro or maybe inviting them to family dinner which we really should have on Wednesdays because dodgeball league’s on Tuesdays and Thursdays and so yeah, if Jason could contribute some kale or something, that would be so appreciated because like, I’m already paying the most rent and technically, Jason is your friend and who even sits in the dark in someone else’s house when he doesn’t even live there? Though, hear me out, maybe he could? Like, maybe that could work? He’d just have to be ok with the, like, smallest room.
Salena Casha’s work has appeared in over 150 publications in the last decade. She survives New England winters on good beer and black coffee. Subscribe to her substack at salenacasha.substack.com.
