Soap
The girl who came to see (and disparage) my flat has decided to take the spare room. This leaves me in something of a quandary (I think that’s the first time I’ve ever typed the word quandary, and having typed it once I realise I have already over-used it). Having written a post about installing webcams in the room on the day she viewed it, I might look a little strange to her if she were to have a read. On the other hand, I really do need the rent.
I could just tactfully edit or delete the post. But that doesn’t sit well with my rule of never changing anything I’ve written here. The whole idea of writing on this blog is just to record what I was/am thinking. If I can go back and change the posts then what I am thinking right now becomes pretty redundant. Most of the time what I am thinking is pretty redundant. But I don’t need to hammer that point home by editing my past thoughts.
I could just let her move in, but never make friends with her on Facebook. Then she’ll never see the offending words. I hope she doesn’t make a friend request on day one. That would be awkward. Weeks and months going buy when she can have pretty much full access to my clothes-horsed damp underpants, but still isn’t allowed to look at my Wall.
In time people I know might tell her about the post. So I better not make friends with her in real life either. Just to be safe. She can move in on the explicit understanding that it is a perfunctory arrangement, put in place so that I can afford to have a roof over my head and stil buy things like chocolate and comics. We’ll stay completely independent from each other, with nothing in common other than utility bills and the fact we use the same soap. (Typing that makes me realise that a lot of people probably don’t use the same soap, and I mean hand soap, not the stuff in the shower you use to lather yourself up with - that’s definiitely in the one per person category).
One thing I do need to do is stop writing about her and the awkward situation we are now bound into together. I need to do that, and I need to do that soon.
