What about your friends

I always thought that petty drama was kind of like braces: you deal with it when you're younger, but it gets straighten out and you laugh about the pictures later. This may have been a little naive because drama doesn't go away with age, so why would that be true for the the petty version?

Allow me to illustrate: I have become annoyed with someone I go to school with. We were friends last term, but now I find her almost impossible to be around. I was mentioning this to another friend of mine the other night and she informed me that she and everyone else has not really be able to stand her since October. I knew that my friend was frustrated with her, but I had no idea that a) it ran so deep and b) there were many others that felt the same way. She also informed me that everyone thought I was lovely and was slightly confused as to why I was hanging out with this other person. This came as more than a little shocking and my level of frustration with this person has grown exponentially since then.

I am typically not one to fake nice with anyone, but this is uncharted waters. LSE is small. My residence is small. If I tell her that I don't want to be friends anymore, does that just make my life uncomfortable for the next six months? Or do I suck it up and realize that six months is actually a pretty short amount of time?

The fact that I even have to have this debate is beyond frustrating. First of all, this person has changed the entire layout of socializing within her program. Second of all, it always makes me wonder when I will no longer find someone so annoying as to make it my life's goal to avoid him/her. The answer is, sadly, never. But in the meantime, I find some way to make this work.

Does this strike anyone else as ridiculous?