thursday, feb 5
Pizza & A Comedian (featuring Sabrina Jalees) Hashinger Theater, 7 p.m., free, KU students
Quantum of Solace
Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m.
prices vary, all ages
Brody Buster Band
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
Cyrus D and Square Jordan
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Landlord/The Sexy Accident
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2.21+
Neon Dance Party
The Bottleneck, 10 p.m., prices vary, 18+
friday,feb 6
Quantum of Solace Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m., prices vary, all ages
Bob Marley's birthday party The Grammys
The Granada, 9 p.m., $7, 18+
Big Stack Daddy/
Russian Discussion
The jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4.21+
Mammoth Life/Paper
Airplanes/Hawley
Schoffner
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5/7,
18+
MI AMI with Bandit
with Bandle
Teeth and DJ Shanks
The Eighth Street Tap Room.
10 p.m., $3.21+
Calamity Cubes/The Am Ramblers
Am Ramblers
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.
$3,21+
Dirtfoot/South Austin Jug Band
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+
saturday, feb 7
Tech N9ne
The Granada, 8 p.m., $25,
all ages
Quantum of Solace
Custum of Sorice
Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m.
prices vary, all ages
Future Rock/Orchard
Lounge
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., $10,
18+
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4.21+
YucaRoots
Deadman Flats & Friends
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5,
21+/$7, 18-20
Saturday Soulclap with Scenebooster Sound-
system
The Eighth Street Tap Room. 10 p.m., $3.21+
The Dead Girls CD
Release/Fourth of July
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.
$2, 21+
release/Fourth of July
sunday,feb 8
Swarthout Recital Hall,
2:30 p.m., $7-$15, all ages
Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience"
Scary Manilow's Night of BLOODY VALENTINE FILMS
The Jackpot, 3 p.m., free, 18+
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.
$16/KU students, all ages
Orchestra
The Granada, 8 p.m., $17 all ages
Galactic
Smackdown Trivia
and Karaoke
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m.,
$5, 18+
BOOT BOOT/Asa
Narson's For Loving
The Replay Lounge, 10
p.m., $2, 21+
Ransom/Fortuning
Count Bass D/
monday, feb 9
Who/Steddy P. and
The Jackpot, 8 p.m., $5, 21+/
$7, 18-20
Sparkiduh and DJ
more!
Original Music Mondays
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., free. 18+
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9 p.m., $1, all ages
tuesday,feb 10
"What's Up With
What's Up With That?" featuring Imanin Winds Crystal Room in the Eldridge Hotel, 7 p.m., free, all ages
Black Stone Cherry/
Crooked X
The Bottleneck, 7 p.m., $11,
all ages
The Replay Lounge, 11 p.m.
$2,21+
The Sideshow Tragedy
Gov't Mule, 7 p.m., $26,
all ages
wednesday, feb 11
Acoustic Open Jam
Imani Winds
The Lied Center; 7:30 p.m.
$12/KU students, all ages
Acoustic Open Jam
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
Latin/Now Now Sleepy-
head/The Cherry Tree
Parade
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5, 21+/
$7, 18-20
Benjamin Del Shreve/
Five Defy
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2, 21+
calendar
venues
The Jazzhaus
The Jackpot Music Hall
926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.749.1387
943 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.843.2846
The Eighth Street Tap
Room
801 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785.841.6918
The Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.754.7676
The Lied Center
1600 Stewart Drive Lawrence, KS 7854.3469
876.3459
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785.841.5483
It was my first semester living with roommates out of the dorms. I'd lived by myself for a semester, and an opportunity for some summer
roommates at a cheap price opened up. It was just two months of cohabiting with three girls. What could go wrong?
A few qualms about unwashed dishes and laundry arose in the first couple of months, but nothing that wasn't solved with some tough love.
The dried food-infested dishes weren't, of course, mine, and I refused to wash them. I worked my way around the kitchen, avoiding the mess at all costs, and the rooms finally cleaned them only after they resorted to spooning cereal out of coffee mugs with serving utensils. Passive-aggressive on my part? Maybe, but I still didn't have to lift a finger to clean up their mess.
I approached the laundry situation a tad differently. It was inherently impossible for the roomies to remove their wet laundry from the washer and transfer it two feet to the right and into the dryer. If it did miraculously make it to the dryer, it didn't make it to their rooms. Even after a dozen friendly reminders, nothing changed. So once, when the wet laundry stayed in the washer for more than 24 hours, I scooped it out and sloppily placed the drenched clothes in the middle of their bedrooms. It wasn't quite eye for an eye, but I settled with sloppy for sloppy.
editor's note
I eventually had to deal with the hair in the shower situation. I shared a bathroom with one of the roomies, and understood that most girls had much longer hair than me.After each of her showers, though, you would have thought she sheared a sheep in there.She was much more accommodating, though, than with the dish and laundry situations, and she cleaned it the best she could.I never really inquired how she did it, but it got done and that's all I cared about.
I witnessed how she did it once, and it will forever be burned into my now-traumatized memory. I was in the bathroom with her and casually mentioned the wool sweater that was forming at the bottom of the drain. She obliged and grabbed her toothbrush. She headed for the drain, and I yelped an uber-dramatic, slow-motion "NOOOOOOO." She told me to relax—she was going to use the handle, not the bristle end. As if this was going to calm me down, I turned away in disgust, grabbed my toothbrush and stormed out of the bathroom.
Later, she tried to show me the Yeti that she pulled out of the recesses of our shower. I declined. And I also kept my toothbrush out of harm's reach in my room for the rest of my time in the apartment.
Take a look at Kristopher's Out & About on page 15 for more disgusting and cringe-worthy stories from KU students about their past and current roommates.
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