Previously on Dorm Room Detective: I came home after the Thanksgiving break to find that someone had messed with my room. My pillows were switched with the pillows on my roommates bed (Someone may have slept in our beds without our knowledge). Apparently our door was left unlocked by our third roommate, who claims to have nothing to do with the egregious deed.
Unfortunately there is not any new information to add at this moment, but I thought I would take just a minute to introduce you all to the characters in this situation. I live in a six person suite with two rooms. I have three suite-mates and two roommates.
Chris: (Roommate) Chris is a great guy, one of my best friends in college. Responsible, intelligent, fruit fly assassin. Chris is the second victim in this unforgivable crime, and there is no chance that he had anything to do with its planning, considering he was gone to Boston before I left and back to New York after I returned.
Sam: (Roommate) Sam is basically a blob. He used to annoy me, but then he just stopped doing anything of interest. He lies in bed for more than twenty four hours some days, but he's always trying to pretend like he is on top of his academic and social game. I rarely talk to him at all, but after mentioning the pillow switch up to him, he became incredibly talkative…asking me about my break and telling me about his. Suspicious…if you ask me.
Moi: (Suite-mate) Moi is overall a good guy. He enjoys architecture(?) and watching movies. Personally, I would believe his statements. His only problem is that he never washes his dishes.
Josh: (Suite-mate) Josh is a bit of a wild card. You don't really know what is going to happen with him, but I wouldn't expect him to go into my room. He has, however, been known to eat other people's food without showing remorse and (allegedly) use my shampoo.
Kyle: (Suite-mate) Kyle is kind of irrelevant to this story, considering he was out of the picture for the weekend. Kyle seems like a nice kid anyway, not the type of person to sleep in your bed without asking you.
Next on Dorm Room Detective (If all goes according to plan), I will actually interview Josh and try to get more information out of Sam, there's something he isn't telling me. He is suspicious.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
(Serial Parody) Dorm Room Detective - Part I
On the trip home to my dorm in New York City, I was listening to a podcast about the murder of a young woman and a shady trial that placed a seventeen year old boy in prison for life. The woman narrating the podcast goes back and tries to track down the clues to the events that happened on January 13, 1999 (http://serialpodcast.org).
When I arrived back to my room after the five day Thanksgiving break, I noticed that something was obviously off. I have two roommates, one who left for the break hours before me (Chris), and one who stayed in New York for the weekend (Sam). When I walked through the door to my room, I saw my pillows lying on Chris's bed and Chris's pillows on mine. I knew my new quest would be to uncover the evidence, and to get to the bottom of this despicable deed, just as Sarah Koenig does in Serial.
I'm going to lay out the facts. This is what I know:
- Chris left the dorm on Wednesday around 7am, while I was still sleeping
- I left the room at approximately 9:30am on Wednesday.
- When I arrived back at my dorm room at 3:20, Sam was lounging on the couches in the common space and Chris and my pillows were switched.
I decided to do a little digging:
- When I casually asked Sam if someone had been sleeping in my bed, he aggressively stated: "I didn't sleep in your bed!" He had thought I asked if he had been sleeping there.
- Upon further questioning I found that he claimed to have been out of the room on both Thursday and Friday, celebrating Thanksgiving at a friend's house in Brooklyn.
- He stated that he forgot to lock our door.
- Additionally he claimed that our suite-mate (Kyle) had been out of town for the weekend.
That only left the two other suite-mates as potential suspects - Josh and Moi, if Sam is to be believed, that is… I later saw Moi and decided to question him: (Moi is a relatively trustworthy source, especially compared to Sam.)
- Moi stated that he had been in for the whole weekend, and that Kyle had indeed been out of town and was coming back later today.
- He stated that Josh was out most of the days but came back at night.
- To his knowledge, there hadn't been any big parties or unexpected guests, but he may just not have seen them.
- The door to Moi, Kyle, and Josh's room is almost always closed, and unlike my room, sound doesn't readily travel into their room. Guests could easily have come and gone without his noticing.
These are the facts, and I suppose some of my opinions. To my knowledge, nothing was stolen. Not the obvious $10 bill I left in a drawer of my desk, not anything (that I could see).
Next on Dorm Room Detective, I will interview Josh, go over the facts with Chris, and try to get more information out of Sam, there's something he isn't telling me. He is suspicious.
When I arrived back to my room after the five day Thanksgiving break, I noticed that something was obviously off. I have two roommates, one who left for the break hours before me (Chris), and one who stayed in New York for the weekend (Sam). When I walked through the door to my room, I saw my pillows lying on Chris's bed and Chris's pillows on mine. I knew my new quest would be to uncover the evidence, and to get to the bottom of this despicable deed, just as Sarah Koenig does in Serial.
I'm going to lay out the facts. This is what I know:
- Chris left the dorm on Wednesday around 7am, while I was still sleeping
- I left the room at approximately 9:30am on Wednesday.
- When I arrived back at my dorm room at 3:20, Sam was lounging on the couches in the common space and Chris and my pillows were switched.
I decided to do a little digging:
- When I casually asked Sam if someone had been sleeping in my bed, he aggressively stated: "I didn't sleep in your bed!" He had thought I asked if he had been sleeping there.
- Upon further questioning I found that he claimed to have been out of the room on both Thursday and Friday, celebrating Thanksgiving at a friend's house in Brooklyn.
- He stated that he forgot to lock our door.
- Additionally he claimed that our suite-mate (Kyle) had been out of town for the weekend.
That only left the two other suite-mates as potential suspects - Josh and Moi, if Sam is to be believed, that is… I later saw Moi and decided to question him: (Moi is a relatively trustworthy source, especially compared to Sam.)
- Moi stated that he had been in for the whole weekend, and that Kyle had indeed been out of town and was coming back later today.
- He stated that Josh was out most of the days but came back at night.
- To his knowledge, there hadn't been any big parties or unexpected guests, but he may just not have seen them.
- The door to Moi, Kyle, and Josh's room is almost always closed, and unlike my room, sound doesn't readily travel into their room. Guests could easily have come and gone without his noticing.
These are the facts, and I suppose some of my opinions. To my knowledge, nothing was stolen. Not the obvious $10 bill I left in a drawer of my desk, not anything (that I could see).
Next on Dorm Room Detective, I will interview Josh, go over the facts with Chris, and try to get more information out of Sam, there's something he isn't telling me. He is suspicious.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
If I had a nickname...
I've never had a nickname. I guess Shawn isn't really a name you can shorten, so if I had a nickname it would have to be something different.
I recently decided what I would want my nickname to be. I think my nickname should be "Laze". It defines me so well. I love Lays Potato Chips (I certainly cannot just eat one) and I can be pretty lazy.
Just today I woke up at 3pm and bought a bag of Lays from the store on the first floor of my dorm. Too lazy to wake up early, too lazy to go to a real grocery store…classic Laze. Classic Laze eats Classic Lays.
I recently decided what I would want my nickname to be. I think my nickname should be "Laze". It defines me so well. I love Lays Potato Chips (I certainly cannot just eat one) and I can be pretty lazy.
Just today I woke up at 3pm and bought a bag of Lays from the store on the first floor of my dorm. Too lazy to wake up early, too lazy to go to a real grocery store…classic Laze. Classic Laze eats Classic Lays.
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