I wonder if my neighbor thinks I'm some sort of drug addict. I was scrubbing the tiles in our shower at 2 am because (I'm a night owl and) people are coming over to replace the bathroom window and I don't want them to think "Eww." They're nothing near sparkling clean, but all the nasty parts have been cleared up. If you're wondering why I associate shower scrubbing with drug addiction, I suppose you've never seen the "Oh meth. Mm meth." commercial. I doubt they heard anything really, perhaps if they were in their bathroom at the time they may have heard the water running on and off.

Yesterday as I was dragging some of my laundry back upstairs, a couple of people waiting by the elevator with a vacuum and other cleaning gadgets asked me if I was Nicole's neighbor. She was supposed to have left her elevator key in the mailbox, but apparently she didn't and her uber clean friends/family were stranded. Either these people are very friendly with their neighbors or they live in a nice place where people like to stick around (and again are friendly to each other). I have no idea what my neighbors' (people living in the adjacent apartments) names are. I do know that the apartment to the right of us has had about five different renters in it since Matt's been living here. I've only seen the current renter once or twice. What I know about him is what I hear through the walls and windows. He smokes and watches sports with his friends. He seems to be pretty normal, but if he suddenly came knocking one day wanting to get to know me, I'd be creeped out. Maybe I'm just not neighborly.

At the dorms I didn't know any of my "neighbors." At the beginning of the semester, the RAs put signs on all the doors with the names of the people who reside there. I suppose it might help social interaction, but they really serve more as a reminder of which room is yours.

I'm starting sound really anti-social aren't I? I don't mean to be. One of my friends once described me as "gregarious in an introverted sort of way." I think that's pretty accurate despite its contradiction: friendly and social, but not outgoing.