Maybe it's just me feeling grossly disenfranchised from the house right now, but school hasn't even started yet, and I'm already contemplating how/when/where to find other housing.

I spent all this evening with Betzen and Valerie (Betzen's last night before he goes to Montana for Grad school) and during the evening's events I decided that if Val were a guy, we would be awesome roommates. She most promptly agreed. But then we got to thinking, and thus into trouble.

Why should a gender difference matter? I would understand if we were both normal 18-year-old freshman moving out from under the wings of our parents for the first time. But the fact is, neither of us is normal, at least not in comparison to the binge drinking, party going, "I wanna get laid" college masses. We've been confiding friends for 18 months, and we may have the most stable platonic relationship in existence. Sure it's different, but the standard male/female proximity tension that keeps normal people from doing this just isn't there between us.

Now the sheer logistics of this will most likely prevent it from happening. (She's going to Italy for the next 4 months and will graduate a semester before I do) I'm just wandering if this is hypothetically viable. So tell me kind reader, what say you?