I haven't had a roommate this strange since college

My conference roomie is weird. Nice, but weird. I first met her for 5 min when she knocked on the door, said hi, and then said "I'm not coming to dinner, I have to go do homework, I'll be asleep when you get back."

So I went to dinner where I was told by the women whose work I'm offering an alternative reading of the sources in something as far from an "inside voice" as you can get, that She disagrees and I'm "just wrong". 

Sigh.

I spent the next 1.5 hours avoiding my room b/c the lights were off. FInally, at 10:30, I had read all the outdated Time magazines and was so bored out of my mind decided it was time to go to bed. I didn't have my lap top b/c I left it in the room and didn't want to disturb roomie. When I finally get up there, she's awake, and has that cracked out "the squirrels ate them all!"* look about her. She thanks me profusely for not turning on all the lights and is pretty generous about not having a problem w/ me on my laptop... but after sitting  in the dark for 20 min announces "I'm hot! I'm going to take a shower!" 

Now I'm back in the dark remembering why I don't share rooms w/ people I'm not sleeping with.

*My freshman year in college my roommate and I were squeezed into a single room. I stayed at my bfriends and came back in the morning to find her perched on my desk chair clutching my box of Lucky charms saying "the squirrels ate them all!" She had been tripping the night before (and was still tripping that morning) and she had eaten all of the marshmellows out of the box. To her credit, she felt really bad and that's why she came up with the squirrel story. She had been sitting on the chair for 4 hours waiting to tell me.