invasion

mairead and I are sharing our apartment this week with five college kids.

we’ve decided that we don’t like it.  we like never having to wait to get in the bathroom, having counter and fridge space, not doing our dishes every night, not talking in the mornings, spending time in common areas and not worrying about disrupting others, and not having to entertain anyone or drive them around.

we did kind of start the week off on the wrong foot, as on the first night they asked us if we’d recommend MVC to young college kids and I went “ummm….” and Mairead outright laughed.  I quickly recovered and told them how I do like the work I’m doing, and while we’ve had our problems I’m not sure that MVC is any better or worse than other programs because I haven’t done any other programs yet.  Mairead and I don’t really fit anyone’s idea of how volunteers should be, except for our respective supervisors.  so they haven’t really interacted with us much…we did take them to a skyline last night (mairead took them to graeters afterward, I had to work) and I’ve had short awkward conversations with three of them (one complimented my vegan cookbook, another likes chairs but didn’t know about DWR, and the third pretends to be a runner too) so while we won’t be bffs by friday morning when they leave perhaps thursday night when they cook us dinner and we are forced to hang out it won’t be so uncomfortable.

for the record, mairead and I didn’t say we’d host a spring break group.  we said they could sleep in our apartment, but stressed that we didn’t have time or resources to be the actual hosts.  and of course, those good old sisters heard what they wanted to hear and are annoyed at us for not doing what they want (sr carren actually said to me “have you totally checked out on this one?” to which I wanted to respond “this is not my responsibility you idiot!  you wanted them here, you do it yourself!” but instead said “I have to work every night, what do you expect?”)