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    The Roommate Book: Sharing Lives and Slapping Fives
    The Roommate Book: Sharing Lives and Slapping Fives
    The Roommate Book: Sharing Lives and Slapping Fives
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    The Roommate Book: Sharing Lives and Slapping Fives

    By Becky Murphy Simpson

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    The Roommate Book is all about celebrating this short season of life. It’s the time between parental curfews and settling down with a significant other. It is for the single and proud, silly and crafty, witty and thrifty. It’s a non-serious look at how to live with a friend (or total stranger). Nuggets of wisdom are included, but so are comical pie charts, hypotheticals, illustrations, and brief essays. This book invites passersby to thumb through and stay a while.

    Meet your roommate:  The Random, The BFF, The Bra-less & Lawless, The "I've never actually seen my roommate," The "We get along but we're not really friends," The Enemy, The Frenemy, The Platonic Opposite Sex, or The Faux Partner.  Use the "Should I Live with This Person" flow chart to help you choose. 

    This fun and functional book also includes:  The "Should I eat this without asking?" flow chart, the top 10 reasons it's awesome to have a roommate, the pet peeve awareness illustrated guide, the Eisenhower matrix for chores (important, urgent, not important, not urgent), the guide to creating nicknames, party and prank ideas, and so much more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateJun 28, 2016
    ISBN9781449480257
    The Roommate Book: Sharing Lives and Slapping Fives

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      I was sitting at my desk working on an illustration project when I had the idea to write a book about roommates. My then roommate, Bekah, had said something funny. Or maybe she did something funny. Or maybe I just remembered something that we saw that was funny. I don’t recall the details of that moment, but I do remember feeling like the idea came out of nowhere.

      But it didn’t come out of nowhere. The inspiration really wasn’t that single lightning rod moment; it was an eight-year catalog of memories with Bekah and some of the other best roommates around.

      Allow me to explain.

      There’s this song by Dead Man’s Bones (Ryan Gosling’s band) called Pa Pa Power.

      Bekah and I discovered it a couple of years ago, well after its release in 2009. We were late bloomers, even when it came to music; but we didn’t care because we loved that song.

      Somewhere along the way, a tradition was born. Every time Pa Pa Power was played, we dropped whatever we were doing to lunge-dance-exercise for the duration of the song. We called this lancing. It was the only apartment rule to which we seriously abided. In fact, sometimes one of us would play it at five a.m. and force the other to jump out of bed and engage in four minutes of hardcore lancing. Because it was a serious tradition, we had to do it. No questions asked. Side note: This exercise not only builds character, but also an incredible ability to get quite low on the dance floor (whether it be Matrix or Sally O’Malley style). For this, I am forever grateful. Most of this book was written while we lived together on Enfield Road in Austin, Texas. Nothing would please me more than to annotate each and every single

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