My Roommates

Finding a place to live on Craig's List definitely raises a lot of questions...especially about the roommates. How can you just randomly live with 5 other people you don't know?, that's too many people, etc. Everyone always talks about that one awful roommate they've had and how miserable they were. Fortunately, for me, I have been blessed with a lifetime of great roomies!

So, there will be a grand total of 6 people living in the house. Right now, there are 4 of us...we comprise the upstairs crowd. I live across the hall from Dara (rhymes with Cara), down the hall from Dan and Adrian (both guys), and share a bathroom with Dara and Dan (Adrian has the master bedroom/bath). We have 2 more girls, Sarah and Beth, moving in later this month...they'll be in the basement.

I've spent the most time with Dan...he's a really smart guy, went to Yale, and is applying to Med School for 2010. He has a really good sense of humor and keeps me laughing! Good guy to have around. I helped him pick up a mattress he found on Craig's List the other week...he thought it would be fine to just throw it on top of my car without tying it down. Now, I didn't go to Yale but I do know about the Law of Inertia. He assured me he'd keep his window open and hold on to it...nope, we got a rope. His family is Russian, so he speaks it fluently...very cool to listen to! Dan and I went to explore downtown Bethesda on Friday night. Scoped out the nightlife and bar scene...there's definitely some good places, but DC rules the nightlife! Dan is a vegetarian...which is really interesting/cool to me. I helped him bake for the first time today and he made Dara and me some awesome baked apples with ice cream! De-lish!

Dara and I have hung out quite a bit, too! She introduced me to my first experience of Vietnamese food this weekend....sooooo good. Dara's from Minnesota and is doing research on Eniomology (don't ask) at NIH. She is a semi-vegetarian...eats and cooks straight-up vegetarian, but will eat fish and chicken if she is somewhere she can't do otherwise. She said pretty much so she isn't an inconvenience. I'm going to attempt cooking my first real vegetarian dish for them soon!

I haven't spent a ton of time with Adrian, yet...he's from Arizona with Latin/South American decent (I believe). He was in Arizona all of last week. He's a really laid back guy, the oldest of all of us...been doing research at NIH for 2 going on 3 years now. He keeps to himself a little more than the rest of us, but a great guy!

Going to bed now...gotta get up at 5:15am! Oh the time that I post these is a few hours slow...not sure why. It's 11:14pm right now...past my bedtime!