i wonder if my roommate can smell or hear me frying potatoes. i wonder if she thinks i'm barking mad to be frying potatoes at 2 in the morning. she is a very light sleeper and her room is nearer the kitchen than mine, and she complained she heard me washing dishes at 4 one morning. i don't deny the dishes. i came out to the kitchen to get something to drink. as the kettle takes a while to boil i decided to do the dishes in the sink to pass the time. there were quite a lot of them and they were all hers. i thought i was keeping myself occupied while saving her time in the morning, but it seems i woke her. i suppose most of the trouble is that we keep completely different schedules. i go to bed at 6 in the morning and get up at noon. and i do get ravenously hungry in the middle of the night. i'm not annoyed; i just am rather afraid of upsetting her, truth be told, and i've got rather used to living alone. maybe when school starts she'll stay up later and i'll start keeping a more conventional schedule so i can be awake for classes in the daytime and this tiptoeing about will end. in the meantime i'll try to be very quiet.