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Hm. Unfortunately they’re probably right, unless you have a full-blown infestation it probably wouldn’t be worth it. Bed bug treatments are involved and pretty expensive. :/ (On the other hand, you live in an apartment building, so I’m surprised they don’t want to deal with it before it gets bad.) Buying cimexa is a good start though! To start, take your sheets off your bed and throw them in a hot wash. While they’re washing, line your mattress with the cimexa in all the cracks and crevices. Get it all in your bedframe as well, and your box spring if you have one. 

If you’re mostly being bitten in bed, you’ll want to buy some interceptor traps on amazon. They’re like 20 bucks. You put them under your bed posts and fill them with baby powder, and probably a little cimexa as well. The walls of the trap are very slippery with the baby powder so they can’t get in or out. Otherwise your bed should be an island! Nothing on or off of it except you, preferably after a hot shower. Your sheets should also never touch the floor, as this will give the bugs a different avenue to your bed.

Jenn and I had to deal with a full-blown infestation basically by ourselves, since the PC person our landlord sent used very outdated techniques and wasn’t particularly helpful. But we got through it and now our place is bug-free. We got a steamer, which is actually the most effective way to get rid of them, but I’m not sure if your situation is bad enough to warrant that purchase. Tbh I wished I lived a little closer so I could go over there myself. I’ve become kind of an ametuer bed-bug exterminator lol, so I could probably find them, or at least find where they’ve been traveling, and steam your mattress and stuff.

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Yikes :(!! I hope you start to feel better soon

I just want you to know that I’m gonna start watching Mr robot bc of you, I am ready to be robot trash.

What kind of shitshow is your administration, holy hell.

Let’s put this in perspective: this is the administration that doubled down on its faith that our supervillain-esque republican governor would pass a state budget, in spite of his obvious willingness to play chicken with the democratic leader and run the state into the ground. Even as the institutions around it began to collapse under the lack of a budget, my institution held the line that it would be okay, despite acting in ways that were decidedly not okay.

This is also the administration who, in response to a “joke” video that advocated the lynching of its black students, responded with a glorified PR campaign and the announcement of a series of “initiatives” that have yet to come to fruition. That’s not to mention the fact that our institution was recently under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights for its screw ups with numerous sexual assault investigations.

This is also the administration that would much rather blame the racism/sexism/homophobia on its campus on the students, than recognize that it has created the conditions for institutional oppression to flourish through its inaction where reports of institutional oppression are concerned. As an example, at a listening session where the administration was asked why the majority of tenure and tenure track professors were white, an administrator responded with “we only hire the most qualified instructors.”

This is my fav tag.

*bows*

suffer!! i’m so excited for your hate.