<p>I recently moved in with a new roommate, who I've been friendly with. But we're both on very different schedules -- she goes to bed around 10 and wakes up at 7, and I sleep from around 12 - 9 am. She almost always wakes me up before I want to be up, but I can live with that. I don't mind being quiet from 10 - 12, or even sitting in the dark. However, last night after 11, she asked me to stop typing. I complied and went to the lounge, but I'm still angry about it. To me, typing seems like something quiet, that people should be able to sleep through. Is asking for total silence late at night a reasonable request? I don't really want to put up with this, but I also don't want to deprive her of sleep. What should I do?</p>
<p>She must be a light sleeper. Unless you have nails and type like you’re pounding the keys in anger =</p>
<p>Kind of a silly request since there are other things that could probably make bigger noises (neighbors blasting music, car alarms, etc). But you must respect your roommate. But she must as well.</p>
<p>Although I often advocate “two wrongs don’t make a right”, if you have a problem with her making noise in the morning, tell her something too. If she feels a bit deprived of sleep from you just typing, that shouldn’t stop you from spilling your own problems with her waking you up early in the morning.</p>
<p>If I were you, I’d either buy a white noise machine or a fan or something (from someplace I would be able to return it to if I wanted), and see whether that masked the sound of typing well enough, or type in the lounge. Obviously you typing when she’s trying to fall asleep (and I don’t think the issue is how loud it is but rather that it’s not a sound that settles into a nice predictable pattern that is easy to habituate to) is a big enough deal to her that she felt she had to bring it up – falling asleep when noise is happening isn’t really a moral issue such that she “should” do it and her failure to do it is somehow wrong – and getting to type in my room after my roommate goes to bed wouldn’t be a big enough deal to me that I’d be willing to poison my relationship with someone I had to deal with every single day.</p>
<p>What nontraditional said. Suggest that she get earplugs or a white noise machine… heck even split the cost of one with her.</p>
<p>Usually I would say, what’s wrong with going to the lounge? I DON’T think total silence is a bad request if there is a lounge nearby. </p>
<p>But it is annoying that she wakes you up every morning, and taking that into account, I probably would have been annoyed too, since typing is less intrusive than a frickin’ alarm or something.</p>
<p>Anyway, two can play this game. Tell her she wakes you up in the morning and to be quieter :P.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions =)</p>
<p>I’ll try going to the lounge for a week or two and see if we can work something out. And I’ve told her not to set her alarm so loud. Woo!</p>