My roommate and I are not getting along

everydayuse
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:03:56 +0000

Here are my gripes with him:
-Always in the room, never leaves.
-Has the TV playing loudly whenever he is not in class, so pretty much all day.
-Eats in the room, orders takeout and then throws it into garbage cans without bags and doesn’t empty them often, so the room smells.
-Intense personality so I don’t feel comfortable telling him to do stuff

Because of a combination of these factors (mostly the loud TV which prevents studying), I am only in the room when I wake up and when I go to sleep at 12:00am.

I recently sent him an email (he is at home the weekend) telling him to bring garbage bags for his cans and a rag from home so I could dust the room and I got a really ugly response from him, so it’s going down. Do you have any advice for me?