So, I tried to pay my rent online for the first time this month. Last month, I didn't know how, so my roommate just paid the whole thing and then had me pay her. However, she showed me how to do it online and I thought that was how we were going to do it from now on. Apparently not, since a few days ago she asked why I hadn't paid her rent yet. I guess she had already paid the whole thing this month, and then expected me to give her a check, when I told her that I paid online she grew upset because she needed the money to fix her car. The conversation was just a little bit awkward.
And then it got worse. She called to check on the account, and they said they didn't get anything from me. Nothing. I don't know how I ended up screwing up the online payment, considering it was very simple form, but I guess some how I did, since they didn't any form at all from me. I learned about this yesterday when, while I was napping in my room, Lys was talking to her parents on the phone right outside my door. I heard her talking about how she didn't want to believe that I'm just trying to get out of rent, but maybe that was just because she always "looked for the good in people."
Gah. Now I feel like the shitty roommate who can't depended on. Sometimes I really hate the iternet. This isn't the first time it has screwed me over in some way.
In any case, today when I was leaving for class I walked into an ambush. Her parents had driven two hours to come here, so they could talk to me about rent and then told me they wanted me to sign a contract with Lys saying that I will pay my rent on time from now on or she will take me to small claims court and kick me out of the apartment. I think that's a bit of an overreaction, since it was just a mixup, but I was getting late to class and I was outnumbered three to one in my living room, with these people I've never met before but are co-signers on the lease, so I said I would.
*sigh* I like my roommates, and it's not hard to live with them, but sometimes I really wish I could have found an affordable apartment for just myself.
In related news, I still haven't received my student loans. Apparently, the loan company screwed up or something, because two thousand students forms were lost--they said they had never applied at all, even though they did--and now I have to go through the whole loan process again. This sucks.