Month: November 2005

I mentioned a couple of days ago that my apartment complex had done a rather poor job scheduling a building-wide extermination. Well, they’ve one-upped themselves. This building pioneered high-rise recycling. Each floor has recycling bins near the garbage chutes. I would say at least 30% of residents participate.

Well, the new owners of the building had the wonderful idea of eliminating the on-floor recycling bins and consolidating all recycling to one of the loading docks “to improve the overall effectiveness of the recycling program.” It used to take me about a minute to walk down the hall, drop off my recycling, and walk back to my apartment. It would take, at minimum, 7 or 8 minutes to take my recycling to the loading dock and return to my apartment. I guess they were looking for a quick way to reduce participation to near zero. They found it!

The powers that be at my apartment complex have informed me that they do a yearly preventive full-building extermination around this time. Unfortunately, they chose very late at night on the Tuesday of Thanksgiving week to inform me that my apartment is scheduled for Monday and that I need to take certain steps to prepare. Let’s think about the logic on this one: probably half the people in this building (maybe more – there are lots of students here) are leaving town, tomorrow, and returning Sunday (or later; some people have probably already left). This was, perhaps, not the most intelligently timed notice…

On a side note, I will probably not be posting all that much, for the next couple of weeks. Despite my best intentions to get caught up on here, school is rather more pressing.