Assignment 12 - Tahsen Hossain - Future Roommate

For the most part, I don't ever try to "sell" myself to people but in the case of addressing a roommate, I would be especially against the idea of "selling" myself. If someone is going to be sharing a room with me, I think it would be a disservice to them to try and highlight my better qualities and obscure my flaws because they would likely be in direct contact with all of my traits good or bad at some point or other. However, I would like to warn them of a few things:


Dear Future Roommate,

     For starts, I'll apologise in advance for my music. Fair warning. It'll be on too loud at ungodly hours of the night and what'll be worse is that the songs won't even be consistent. One hour, I'll be jammin' out to Fall Out Boy; the next, singing along to musicals like Hamilton or La La Land; the one after will probably be pop like Ed Sheeran or Lorde; then some pop-indie like Bastille or Hozier; and the one after that, I'll be nodding my head to some J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar.

    Also, if you happen to be a person who likes things organised, you should know that I am not, at least not in a conventional way. Personally, I'd half-mockingly call my method of organisation "organic".  You are likely to find that on my side of the room there will be small disorganised unfolded piles of clean laundry in the order that I intend to wear them. Any books I use will probably lie covers-up in whichever place I last read them and on the page where I stopped reading just because I never to use a bookmark or worse "rabbit-ear" a page of any book I read.

    But probably the most important thing: I tend to keep to myself most of the time. Hopefully, that doesn't give you the impression that I am wholly disinterested in being friends or doing anything social or that I'm a complete shut-in.

Sincerely,

Tahsen Hossain