So about a week ago I bought some plants for my apartment.  How are they doing?

Well, the Lucky Bamboo (dracaena) is doing quite well.  I've kept it topped off with water and I can practically see it shooting off new leaves and stuff when I pass by it each day.  It must not have gotten the memo that I'm supposed to suck at this sort of thing.

The alien garden bowl (the Aloe/Haworthia collection) apparently DID get the memo, and has been having more of a struggle.  I'm pretty sure now that it came overwatered from Home Depot.  I've had to uproot one dead aloe because it was rotted through and through.  Another may be on the its way out as well (it's falling over on its side -- a sign that its roots have died and thus lost its anchor).  Interestingly enough, this is all happening on one side of the bowl.  On the other side, the aloe and haworthia seem to be doing just fine, and I can even see signs of new growth.

I hope this is just a matter of letting the soil dry out, and that it isn't something more insiduous like...some sort of disease...