The Shattuck Shelter "humility job": Gately becomes a janitor

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texture · ~YDPAH residency → YDAU

When: landed as a resident "with only three days to go on his month's deadline to find some honest job"; kept ever since, ongoing in YDAU
What: Gately's court-required "humility job" and vocational state-change: five A.M.s a week he rides the 0430 Inbound Green Line to janitor the Shattuck Shelter for Homeless Males in Jamaica Plain — mopping delousing solvents, hosing human waste from the showers behind a face-mask. His underpaying contractor-boss is Stavros Lobokulas. He screens sensory input "with a fucking vengeance," and sometimes recognizes men there from his own B&E/addiction days. He'll be paying court-scheduled restitution "well into his thirties," so he needs the work; Annie P. coined that Gately "sunlights on the side."