bed bug update

i think i really do have bed bugs. YUCK. i read the memo my friend received, and although the presence of bed bugs has nothing to do with cleanliness (my room happens to be quite clean), i made myself more vulnerable to them by placing my mattress directly on the floor. i erroneously thought: "i'm only going to be here a couple of years, i don't want to bother with buying/moving a bed frame."

so i notified the front desk today and they've sprayed something on and around my bed. but they're not going to do anything else unless i find that the problem persists. in other words, they'll call pest control if i continue to get bites. but i don't really feel like testing out the mattress...! who wants to sleep on a mattress that's potentially bug-infested?? i've been sleeping on a fold-out cot for the past few days that's happily bug free. i'd really rather not go back to the mattress until i know the bugs are gone...