Ugh... I'm just sorry. First, drunk-sitting is never very fun, but a complete lack of gratitude is just salt in the wound. Dealing with general immaturity from folks can be taxing, but you know you're a good person for your doing what you did for them. Anyway, I know it'll get better for you, and on a much sooner scale than over the next couple years. Just take care, and keep taking little steps toward where you want to be.
Yeah. . . he showed some gratitude, and as I said I did get a thank-you note from his girl this morning (good on her--that was definitely the responsible thing to do from her part), but it was honest-to-god almost identical to the 10-year-old herding I do every week, except that he was way more interested in doing dangerous shit, I had to keep him outside most of the time so he didn't get written up in the dorm (he's . . . 20, and drank
three bottles of wine at one of the dorm's official functions, I don't know HOW) AND dodge the police. Managing other people's bathroom trips, water, and food intake is just. . . I dunno. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
If you're wondering what happened, exactly, he got kicked out of his room by his roommate and was running around getting people to tell him to do stuff, at which point he wound up knocking on my door at 10:00 PM (around when other people were going to be settling in for the night), so I realized that I was pretty much the end of the line and made sure he was out of there.
Ugh.
Well, in other news I only have ~850 pages left. Time to get back to work.