Good night! Sleep Tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite!
Do you know what I'm doing this evening? I am hanging out on the second floor of JASH making sure that all the rooms are clear of anything resembling anything you use in your daily life as well as other miscellaneous things that one may acquire in their life because we have to DE-BUG the house. Yes... you read it right... DE-BUG! What KIND of bugs?????
BED BUGS.
There is an epidemic of bed bugs in the low income housing/projects of Somerville, Cambridge, Boston and surrounding areas. (New York is the bed bug capital of the world according to my boss) Apparently JASH has had it for years. We haven't been able to get rid of them. I'm sure that I've written about it in here as some point but here's the deal to catch everyone up who doesn't already know what my deal is. JAHS has been trying to get rid of the bed bugs for as long as I can remember. They have been taking the advice of the local bug guy and just doing one or two rooms at a time, it's fine! They'll go away... yeah and here we are 3 years later with bed bugs living in the walls. The epidemic is SO bad that there is a "bed bugs task force" to help research and combat the pesky problem. And this is where we are now.
The newest thing in the elimination of bed bugs is to use some sort of dry poison that is electromagnetically charged so that even if the bugs try to run away from it, the poison follows them... but bug guys have to come in and drill holes in the walls in order to do this. And then once the bugs start coming out, we get to vacuum them up!
Oh the life of a bed bug!
JASH bought this crazy shop vac looking thing that is like a micro biotic vacuum or something like that. It basically is designed to vacuum up any bugs or mites and it traps them in a bag in the vacuum. Sounds good to me! Get those fuckers out of this house!
So now, the women have to pack up all of their stuff and label them. JASH is having all of their clothes washed and dried by a service. They have to put everything else that can't go into a dryer in bags to be left out in the sun to bake for a while. And here is where I come in. I have the noon to midnight shift on Sunday which means that I get to make sure that everyone has done what they are supposed to have done. hmmmmm not quiet. I'll admit that the threat of a written warning and possibly being terminated from the program was a good enough kick in the ass to set the women of the house spinning packing their shit, labeling everything and basically throwing bags into the hall way. When did I get elected to carry their shit downstairs? I did it for the pregnant girl.... but the other two that are here are NOT pregnant and frankly, I don't want bed bugs and I'm not going to carry your bed bug bags anymore!
It's bad enough that I have to wipe off every time I leave here but now I'm sitting here itching like crazy... it's like when you talk about lice you start itching... yeah... that's how I feel.
BED BUGS.
There is an epidemic of bed bugs in the low income housing/projects of Somerville, Cambridge, Boston and surrounding areas. (New York is the bed bug capital of the world according to my boss) Apparently JASH has had it for years. We haven't been able to get rid of them. I'm sure that I've written about it in here as some point but here's the deal to catch everyone up who doesn't already know what my deal is. JAHS has been trying to get rid of the bed bugs for as long as I can remember. They have been taking the advice of the local bug guy and just doing one or two rooms at a time, it's fine! They'll go away... yeah and here we are 3 years later with bed bugs living in the walls. The epidemic is SO bad that there is a "bed bugs task force" to help research and combat the pesky problem. And this is where we are now.
The newest thing in the elimination of bed bugs is to use some sort of dry poison that is electromagnetically charged so that even if the bugs try to run away from it, the poison follows them... but bug guys have to come in and drill holes in the walls in order to do this. And then once the bugs start coming out, we get to vacuum them up!
Oh the life of a bed bug!
JASH bought this crazy shop vac looking thing that is like a micro biotic vacuum or something like that. It basically is designed to vacuum up any bugs or mites and it traps them in a bag in the vacuum. Sounds good to me! Get those fuckers out of this house!
So now, the women have to pack up all of their stuff and label them. JASH is having all of their clothes washed and dried by a service. They have to put everything else that can't go into a dryer in bags to be left out in the sun to bake for a while. And here is where I come in. I have the noon to midnight shift on Sunday which means that I get to make sure that everyone has done what they are supposed to have done. hmmmmm not quiet. I'll admit that the threat of a written warning and possibly being terminated from the program was a good enough kick in the ass to set the women of the house spinning packing their shit, labeling everything and basically throwing bags into the hall way. When did I get elected to carry their shit downstairs? I did it for the pregnant girl.... but the other two that are here are NOT pregnant and frankly, I don't want bed bugs and I'm not going to carry your bed bug bags anymore!
It's bad enough that I have to wipe off every time I leave here but now I'm sitting here itching like crazy... it's like when you talk about lice you start itching... yeah... that's how I feel.