Housemate Auditions
One of my housemates is moving out, and finding a replacement has turned into a multi-evening ordeal. We’ve seen a whole bunch of people but the problem is that all of them seem nice in their own ways. There’s a calm and collected girl, a guy who seems like a laugh but may be just a little bit too much based on first impressions (which are inevitably always a bit off) and a German who in his spare time flies planes.
Choosing someone is exceedingly difficult. They’d all love to move in, to the extent that one guy last night exclaimed to his girlfriend on the phone that “yeah I’m still here, it’s amazing, the people are lovely… I want to move here so much”.
But, as much as it pains me to think that we’d be turning a lot of good choices down, maybe the reason we as a house have not been able to come to a decision is because the Right Person hasn’t walked through the door yet? I really hope we had more time for this auditioning thing, though it is really tiring to have new people come in on multiple nights. But we don’t – the decision pretty much has to be made tonight because the first of September is just around the corner and the current housemate will be gone by then.