Roomie Love

I love my roommate. Cami Fannin is my spirit animal. I do not think we have had a day where we did not make each other laugh. I feel incredibly lucky to have a roommate I get along with so well, especially because we were not friends before coming to TCU. One of the main reasons we get along so well is our open goofiness with each other, and she makes a lot of silly mistakes that make us and our friends laugh.

The first event that made us laugh was when we had a friend in our room that noticed our semi-lofted beds. They are at an awkward height, so she asked how we climb into them. Cami immediately hops up and says “Let me show you how it’s done!” and proceeds to hop on her ottoman chair and fall right back off. It was hilarious watching her act all cocky and then stumble (she was not hurt and laughed as well).

My favorite funny thing that Cami does is make English errors. She is a communications major, so she should probably have mastered the English language pretty well by now. She is an incredibly intelligent girl, she just has a lot of “blonde moments”. When we were still setting up our room, we had a calendar and Cami wrote “Fieild Trip” on one day. At first I did not notice, but upon closer inspection I realized she had put two i’s into the word “field”. I started laughing and pointed it out to her, and she said she could not remember which side the i was supposed to go on so she just put it on both.

For my birthday, I got a balloon. I set it out of the way in the corner of the room, and at night it hovered above the blue glow of the Keurig. Before falling asleep, I looked over at it and remarked to Cami about how creepy it was, a dark shadow floating around above the blue light. When I was asleep, Cami moved the balloon right next to my bed and stuck a post-it on that said “Am I a creppy ballon now?!?”. She meant “creepy balloon”. Instead of scaring me, I got to tease her about her errors.

Since Cami is in Alpha Delta Pi, one of their on-campus projects was putting up post it notes with kind and encouraging messages. They wrote them all at one of their meetings, and when Cami came home that night she brought one with her. It had the simple message of “You are beauitiful”. She put one too many vowels into “beautiful”. I have both of the incorrect post it notes pinned to the wall above my desk.

Not only does Cami make written errors, but if I am lucky enough she makes spoken errors as well. One night at Chick-fil-A, I was eating french fries and Cami was eating chicken nuggets. We were with friends and all discussing how I have been dabbling in vegetarianism. Trying to convince me to eat meat, Cami says “They’re good, meat is.” All she meant was meat is good. She just felt the need to awkwardly clarify what was good. Needless to say, the whole table started laughing, and we still enjoy referencing the moment.

Other funny things Cami has done include hammering something with a magnet stuck to the hammer and getting in the way, taking numerous selfies on anybody's phone whenever she can, and jamming our friends car trunk with her purse.