2. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.
3. Twitch a lot.
4. Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.
5. Steal a fishtank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to them.
6. Become a subgenius.
7. Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.
8. Learn to levitate.
While your roommate is looking away, float up out
of your
seat. When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin.
9. Speak in tongues.
10. Move you roommate's personal
effects around. Start subtlely.
Gradually work up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he
owns to the ceiling.
11. Walk and talk backwards.
12. Spend all your money
on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in
the middle of your room. Number them.
13. Spend all your money
on Transformers. Play with them at night. If
your roommate says anything, tell him/her with a straight face,
"They're more than meets the eye."
14. Recite entire movie scripts
(e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man,"
Casablanca,") almost inaudibly.
15. Kill roaches with a monkey
wrench while playing Wagnerian arias on a
kazoo. If your roommate complains, explain that it is for your performance
art class (or hit him/her with the wrench).
16. Collect all your urine in a small jug.
17. Chain yourself to your
roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you
food.
18. Get a computer.
Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off
when you are.
19. Ask your roommate if
your family can move in "just for a couple of
weeks."
20. Buy as many back issues
of Field and Stream as you can. Pretend to
masturbate while reading them.
21. Fake a heart attack.
When your roommate gets the paramedics to
come, pretend nothing happened.
22. Eat glass.
23. Smoke ballpoint pens.
24. Smile. All the time.
25. Collect dog shit in baby
food jars. Sort them according to what you
think the dog ate.
26. Burn all your waste paper while eyeing your roommate suspiciously.
27. Hide a bunch of potato
chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash
can. When you get hungry, root around in the trash. Find the
food,
and eat it. If your roommate empties the trash before you get hungry,
demand that s/he reimburse you.
28. Leave a declaration of
war on your roommate's desk. Include a list
of grievances.
29. Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns.
30. Shoot rubber bands at
your roommate while his/her back is turned,
and then look away quickly.
31. Dye all your underwear lime green.
32. Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim.
33. Bye three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet.
34. Hide your underwear and
socks in your roommate's closet.
Accuse him/her of stealing it.
35. Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due).
36. Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster. Sacrifice something nasty.
37. Whenever your roommate
walks in, wait one minute and then stand up.
Announce that you are going to take a shower. Do so. Keep this
up
for three weeks.
38. Arrange thirteen toothbrushes
of different colors on your dresser.
Refuse to discuss them.
39. Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley.
40. Whenever he/she is about
to fall asleep, ask questions that start
with "Didja ever wonder why...." Be creative.
41. Shave one eyebrow.
42. Put your mattress underneath
your bed. Sleep down under there and
pile your dirty clothes on the empty bedframe. If your roommate
comments, mutter "Gotta save space," twenty times while twitching violently.
43. Put horseradish in your shoes.
44. Shelve all your books
with the spines facing the wall. Complain
loudly that you can never find the book that you want.
45. Always flush the toilet three times.
46. Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
47. Buy a copy of Frankie
Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play it
at least 6 hours a day. If your roommate complains, explain that
it's
an assignment for your primitive cultures class.
48. Give him/her an allowance.
49. Listen to radio static.
50. Open your window shades
before you go to sleep each night. Close
them as soon as you wake up.
51. Cry a lot.
52. Send secret admirer notes on your roommate's blitzmail.
53. Clip your fingernails
and toenails and keep them in a baggie. Leave
the baggie near your computer and snack from it while studying. If
he/she walks by, grab the bag close and eye him/her suspiciously.
54. Paste used kleenexes to his/her walls.
55. Whenever your roomate
comes in from the shower, lower your eyes and
giggle to yourself.
56. If you get in before your roomate, go to sleep in his/her bed.
57. Put pornos under his/her
bed. Whenever someone comes to visit your
roommate when they're not home, show them the magazines.
58. Whenever you go to sleep,
start jumping on your bed . . . do so for a
while, then jump really high and act like you hit your head on the
ceiling. Crumple onto your bed and fake like you were knocked out . .
Fall asleep this way each night for a month.