After five long weeks of sleeping on camp cots in the cafeteria, while the administration along with the exterminators dealt with yet another bed bug epidemic, we are finally back in the dorm again. Everybody expected things to be back to normal, or at least as normal as it gets with 40 women in one room, but no such luck. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided to re-arrange the dormitory to where there are 3 inches between beds in the front half and a huge open space the size of a dance floor on the backside. When one of the ladies did not have enough room to even get to her bunk instead of going back to the old arrangement that worked for everyone, she was moved to a bunk in the back that afforded her more space. She was lucky because the shelter is not full right now, but what about the next person?

I wonder what the fire code says about the proximity of bunk beds in a dormitory environment and the width of passage ways. Have to research that……I know that it has to be more than 3 inches.

The powers to be have also decided to put a washer and dryer in the locker room. Operative word being A as in ONE, for 40 women, yeahh right. I can see that working out. Right now everyone has an assigned laundry day, they can bag and tag their clothing, it gets taking to the laundry room with commercial washers and dryers, it is washed and dried by assigned trained volunteers and is returned the same day.

However I really do not think there is much to worry about since the washer or dryer will get broken during the first couple of weeks and knowing how things work (or rather don’t work) around here it will become a doorstop and just take up space.