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I fucking hate my housemate

So for the past few months I’ve been engaged in the most bullshit passive-aggressive war with him over the heating. He has this need to set the timer on the boiler for the most ridiculous hours, like between 12am-2am and then 4am-6am; you know WHEN PEOPLE ARE ASLEEP. And when it’s on during the day, he smokes out of the kitchen window and leaves it wide open which means the living room and kitchen and hallway are fucking freezing.

Ever since I came off my medication at the beginning of December my sleep has been really fucked up. I think I’ve had maybe 2 full nights sleep since coming off it. I am a really light sleeper. My bedroom is next to the kitchen where the boiler is and my bed next to the radiator so the damn thing is extra loud for me. I turned it down to the minimum on my radiator but it is still too damn hot. I’ve been waking up at around 4am every damn night because of the pissing heating. Even when I’ve been away, like in Oxford at my boyfriend’s place, I’ve been waking at 4am on instinct.

So since this war began I have been turning the timer off from the stupid early hours times just so we can get some sleep. He changes it back every day, I switch it off at midnight. And so on.

Last night I came home from Oxford and at around midnight when the heating was still on I got fed up and went to change the times again. Except I had a massive brain fart and couldn’t remember if it was up or down to switch the times off. So I turned the whole thing off altogether. 

Today he left a note on the boiler asking why the heating was being switched off at night because it’s 0 degrees outside and we don’t pay for the heating anyway as it’s included in the rent. I saw red at this and wrote underneath It’s too loud and hot and wakes us up at 4am because of those reasons. And then later he wrote underneath THAT: Sleep naked, turn radiator to minimum, buy earplugs (£2).

I am so fucked off with this. Never mind the fact that I HAVE tried sleeping naked, but the sporadic times the heating comes on means that I wake up cold in the inbetween periods and I HAVE set my radiator to the minimum. The earplug thing takes the piss because I shouldn’t have to wear them in my own home and I cant anyway because they hurt my ears (I can’t even wear earbuds with my mp3 player for 5 minutes). 

And then I found out that my 3 other housemates all wake up at 4am too! It’s not just me. This is an actual fucking problem and apparently we all have to put up with it because our one arsehole housemate hasn’t heard of space heaters (£15 at Poundstretcher), hot water bottles (I have TWO he can have!) or blankets (and doesn’t seem to understand that once you’re warm under a duvet that you don’t need the heating on because you’re asleep and cosy). 

And all of us are too chickenshit to confront him about this because he is kind of abrasive and hard to talk to (I really dislike talking to him ever since some flippant remarks he made about my depression) and just comes across like he doesn’t actually give a shit about what any of us have to say. 2 of my housemates are hardly ever home and everyone just sticks to hanging out in their rooms so it’s hard to gauge when anyone is actually home so having a house meeting to discuss the issue is pretty difficult.