Having some roommate problems here.

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I'm not sure but I think this is a "social skills" problem.
There's three of us living in a two bed, one bath apartment. I share a bedroom with one girl, and the third girl has her own room. The girl with her own room is an athlete and an international student and really laid back and nice. She is either studying, Skyping, or running. The girl I share a room with is not so cool. She's very happy, almost fake. And she was kind of babied by her parents, I think.
A number of things she does make me want to scream at the end of the day, and I have no solutions to them.
This girl wants to be friends, I think. She waits for me to make lunch and then joins me while I eat. And she will wait a very long time. I've begun eating in our room at my desk (her desk is in the living room thankfully).
She asks me "What are you working on in there? What are you doing? What classes do you have today and what time?"
She will stand in the doorway of our room while I work and I can hear her breathing. I've finally just got a mirror for my desk angled toward the doorway and it helps me relax.
And she wants to do everything together. Like I mean EVERYTHING. I want to go on a walk by myself and she wants to come and I know she can't make it for more than a half mile, let alone four miles on my regular route.
How do I make it clear I want to walk alone? I don't want to be rude.
I want to go shopping tomorrow in town, by myself. How do I say that without implying an invitation? One time I went and a few minutes after I left I got a text asking where I was.
Finally, we have a TV in our living room that I bought. I bought the stand too. I want to watch Top Gear but she always watches the Hallmark channel starting at like five that evening and by nine when I'm ready to sit down for a while I have to just sit there through that. I suggested movies but she doesn't like what I rent from the library and I don't like what she chooses. I have to go home to watch BBC or Palladia. This makes me really sad because it's around once every month.
This is long. Sorry. I don't mean to complain but I'm not sure how else to make my situation clear. How do I nicely separate myself from her?
Having roommates is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
If you guys have any suggestions on anything else we are struggling with cleaning because I can't stand not cleaning enough to hold out on them and I don't think the other two care about the cleanliness of our apartment.