My Week of Unfortunate Events

First off.. JACK if you do not post on this blog Im going to be very upset.

Anyway this week is full of wreckage that is confirming my belief that I am cursed... let see here.

1). My Job: Since I am incapable of obtaining any job that is related to my background I took a job as a customer service rep for a Settlement Administrator. To sum things up I talk about mutual funds to angry and confused people who are old and/or have no idea about anything regarding to mutual funds.

Since this job requires a lot of talking..my livelihood is my voice. Well when you have a cold and you talk to at least 60 people per day losing your voice is an absolute possibility and of course it happened to me.

I wake up in the morning sore throat and a raspy barely audible voice. Maybe if I rest until I get to the office and try to project I can still do my job. I start driving to pick up Anya on the way to work. We start driving and she is telling me how there is no way I can talk on the phone. As I think of solutions all of a sudden my car decides to make loud concerning noises. GREATT... are we going to make it to work???

We do fortunately, but not without becoming partially deaf.

Anyway we walk into the the office and my manager has to find tasks for me to do since I can not talk on the phone. They have already had to pull a lot of strings for me and I can't even do the job I was intentionally hired to do. Lets hope I do not join that group of 20 people who have just been laid off...

2) Common-Sense Deficient Mother: My mother and I are in the process of moving. My mother is moving to Wareham while I am moving to Boston. Of course my mother falls down the stairs trying to move stuff in high heels and sprains her ankle.

So who gets to do all the moving you might ask.

ME!

I love lifting heavy furniture.duhhhhh

3) Car Troubles: In addition to having a cracked exhaust I got rear-ended this week.

I get home to spend the night and get up to do some grocery shopping. As I am driving there I notice a turtle trying to cross the street.

My first thought " Poor turtle, its going to get hit!"

So naturally I stop to try to help it cross the street and guess what happens. I get rear-ended. For trying to save a turtle.

Well it seems that every time turtles are involved something ridiculous happens. So next time I see a turtle. I will prepare myself.

Sea Turtle Interview and World of Warcraft

ALRIGHT. Mai's first post. Now this post is also on my other blog. But the scenario is just so ridiculous......im doubleposting (don't judge).

Since I have graduated in January I have been applying to jobs going to interviews etc.


And...Well... I only know how to find things through Craigslist. So I look under their jobpostings and find this one job posting for a Program Coordinator for this non-profit who sends students to China to learn Chinese and save Sea Turtles. I would be provided with the airfare, food, housing, and $1200 a month along with the opportunity to learn Chinese and save seaturtles. The site even had a company email and photos of students saving seaturtles. photo show below.

Sounds great right?!! Yeah thats what I thought. Oh just wait.

So I apply and get called for an interview. IM PSYCHED. The guy says lets meet at the aquarium and I can have my interview there.

So I get ready and its POURING, like sheets and sheets of rain, Noah would have been no match for this rain, type weather.

AND as I get into Boston.... the guy calls me about five times.... to reschedule the interview time, as I sit in the rain. Annoyed I agree, continue to incessantly feed the meter, grumble in my wet shoes, etc.

Eventually I go meet him. Now I am partially skeptical of this non-profit after reviewing the site with my friend Caroline. It had some weird youtube video of kids saving sea turtles to "We are the World" as the background music.





ANYWAY.

I finally meet with this guy and he hands me the brochure, looks legit enough. Maybe the youtube video was just a bad choice.

Half way through this aquarium guy in aquarium scrubs comes out and the interviewer was like " Sorry I have to go talk to the sea turtle vet can you wait a minute?". I agree. BUT now am SUPER PISSED. I have had to wait for this guy for like 5 hours.

I wait. ...still am waiting...45 minutes later I decide to go feed the meter. Its pouring I get soaked again. ....15 minutes later I return. WET. and MAD.

Eventually the guy returns and he is like ok lets restart the interview. So now he has his laptop out. Not even looking at me. Clicking on the screen. I dont even know if he is listening to me.

And then he asks if I have any questions.

OH BOY. My turn.

I say yes.

Me: " So um how did this organization get started?"

Interviewer: "Well, see, I play World of Warcraft professionally and am working for this gaming company. I was in China for a convention and noticed these sea turtles being sold to restaurants. Ive always wanted to do something with a purpose so I decided to start this organization and my gaming company is donating 20 cents per game to help me fund it"

Me: " World of WarCraft?"

Interviewer: " Yes. The video game.... Dont you have brothers."

Me: " No. I am an only child."

Interviewer: See there are things like swords you need to collect. ...(random video game jargon that I completely tuned out). So basically your job would be organizing the students and the staff with the sea turtles and then working for my gaming company setting up gamers in China to work and play for gamers in the U.S."

Me: "Ummmm..ok... so how many students do you have enrolled."

Interviewer: "Oh none. I havent had that worked out yet. Do you have any suggestions."

Long conversation on how he basically does not know how to run an educational abroad program. And how hes an idiot and how no highschool students parents would send their children to work in China with marine life without serious serious insurance provided.

Me: " Ok" (in head thinking. free food, housing, airfare, 1200 bucks a month) " So I'd be provided free airfare, housing, food and a stipend of $1200 a month"

Interviewer: "Yes....I mean wait no. Not $1200."

Me: " That is what your Job Posting said"

Interviewer: " I meant in Chinese currency so Id be more like $600 for the three months. Is that a problem."

Me: "Yes" I walk out.

SO basically I was interviewed by this random guy who wants to save sea turtles in china and is funding the project by playing world of warcraft..... awesome

Now for the closing here is a video of a sea turtle interpretive dance...

Mai and Jack's Misadventures

Hello All,

Since me and Jack are always caught up in the most ridiculous scenarios aka misadventures we've decided to start a blog partially to vent but mostly to share with you all the bizarre events of our lives. Now I have to figure how to add Jack as an author.

ENJOY.