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October 18, 2006

Now I'm Losing Patience With The Biosphere

In which I reflect on my new life, post-infestation

So I don't really want to get into the bedbug blog business. I think the ones I've read (The Bedbug Blog and Bedbugger) are quite excellent, and have done a lovely job of creating an online community for those of us who are dealing with the bedbug thing. I also don't want to use this space for whinging about my minor inconveniences, especially when there are plenty of people who deal with a lot more (and have a lot less to start with) than I. This isn't actually that bad; it's just a big pain in the ass.

Of course, said pain in the ass is the reason why I haven't really had the time or energy to think or write about anything else for the past couple weeks. It's not like there isn't plenty of other things I'd like to write about. I'm just, well, pretty preoccupied. Instead of coming home from work and taking the time to noodle on a blog entry, I do laundry. That is, I slowly work my through every possession in my house that will survive the dryer. First I quarantine, then I do 50 minutes in the dryer, then I return to a sanitized environment. It's remarkably tedious, and takes longer than you think (especially when you're at work 12 hours a day). When I'm not at work, I'm dealing with the bugs. As noted, it isn't so sweet.

(Before I forget, let me send a quick thank-you to everyone who sent/ mentioned the New York Times article on bedbugs from Sunday. Yes, I did see that already. Thanks for thinking of me! At least I can take some solace in the fact that my little situation is at least connecting to a larger news trend/ panic. It's like I bought one of those poison bags of spinach or something!)

People keep coming up to me and noting that I look tired. Hmmm. While I'm not entirely in the "People who tell you that you look tired are just trying to tell you that you look like shit" camp, I wouldn't say I'm thrilled to hear it -- though I can't say I'm surprised. Oh, you're saying I look tired? Maybe it's because my brain is on critter alert all night, causing me to wake up multiple times every night convinced that there are tiny insects sucking my blood? You think that might have something to do with it?

Speaking of sleeping, I'm currently sleeping on an air mattress. It's actually not bad, at all. Picked it up at Costco. If you're in the market for one of these things, I highly recommend this model. It inflates quickly and quietly, and definitely holds its air all night (and I'm not that light a guy). Good stuff indeed.

Of course, the reason I'm on the air mattrress is that I no longer have a proper mattress. Or much of anything else in my bedroom. Said bedroom (the place I used to sleep) now looks like this:

My new bedroom, aka the room where I used to sit on the couch and watch TV, is a little unsettled these days as well:

Of course, the upside of the move to the couch-and-TV room is that I now get to sleep a mere 18 inches away from my gigantic television. That I like.

So, um, yeah, I, uh, think that should, uh, do it. No more whinging about the bedbugs. Time to move on to bigger and better things. Like the Eagles (!), including but not limited to the impending changes to their secondary and the superhuman powers of Donovan McNabb.

Off to the air mattress.

Posted by thatkid at October 18, 2006 10:44 PM under ThatKid

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