A few roommate stories...

If you missed my introduction to my ex-roommate Jonathan, you should probably read the introduction first.
Link: http://www.rahiki.com/bbp/2004/06/introduction-to-my-wonderful-ex.html

Read the intro? Okay, good. Let's dive into a couple of stories.
Good Study Habits
Like I mentioned in the introduction, Jonathan was very successful in high school. He was Valedictorian for the Class of 2003 of Albia High School.

It's important to note that Jon is in the Engineering program, which is pretty difficult. Classes finally began after five days of moving-in, getting situated, and getting oriented. I noticed pretty quickly that Jonathan really didn't do anything but sleep, go to class, and study.

I am not exagerrating. He would wake up, eat breakfast, go to a class, come back and study, go to another class, come back and study, go to another class, come back and study, eat dinner, study until midnight, go to bed, wake up at 8 AM and repeat. I warned him that he would burn out on this pretty quickly, but he ignored my advice.

Of course, as the year went on, this didn't last. I would say it really didn't continue past the first two weeks.

By the end of the semester, those quality study habits were but a distant memory for Jonathan. During finals week, Jonathan and I agreed we should study for Econ 101 together. We were in the same class and section even, so it only made sense. On the agreed-upon night to study, I was in my room studying for another one of my finals I had the next day. The time grew later and later and later. Around 1 or 2 AM in the morning, Jonathan rolled into our room and said, "Hey, do you want to start studying for Econ?"

He came into our room at 2 in the morning to START studying. My, how things had changed!

Lando Is Born
On the third floor of Linden Hall, there was a rather infamous gent by the name of Jonathan Householder. Householder was famous for a number of things. He was living in Linden for his fourth consecutive year. He was over 21. He drove an Escalade. He had a pretty amazing dorm room. He has a Moose obsession. If you said the name of Jonathan anywhere in Linden, people knew you were talking about Householder.

Of course, this presented a problem for my roomie. People always confused the two, and neither one of them was going to settle for Jon. We dealt with the problem by referring to them as their last names whenever possible, but we would slip up occasionally and there would be confusion.

One night we were watching Family Guy, as usual, and it was the episode called "Let's Go To the Hop". If you're not familiar with this episode, it's where licking toads becomes the hip new drug at Meg's high school. To solve the problem, Peter offers to go undercover at the school. His name of choice? Lando. Yes, Lando of "Empire Strikes Back" fame. Immediately after this episode, Jonathan declared that he would now be known as Lando.

I thought he was just joking around and being weird. I was wrong. He was quite serious. It took a few weeks, but in a short period of time, Jonathan was known as Lando. People would knock on my door and ask, "Is Lando here?" I honestly am still shocked and how quickly and rapidly the name stuck and stayed that way. In fact, it's been really difficult writing "Jonathan" all this time -- my natural tendancy is to want to write Lando, which I probably will from now on.

More stories are yet to come!