The Frame is Bent, the Muffler Went, the Radio it's ok.....

I haven't been updating this web blog as often as I used to because from July 2nd to July 20 I have/ will be working everyday. Therefore I have no life for things to happen to. Plenty of work issues pop up though, like today.

Let's see I had a lot of common issues like guests being charged wrong, guests complaining about XYZ, or people not checking out of their rooms. But then I had the odd ball ones like: one of my employees checked in 1200 children who were staying for a night at a time over the course of the summer instead of the 25 kids staying for just that night throwing off all future reservations and housekeeping reports, so I had to manually change 1200 reservations. We are housing the participants for the Eskimo-Alaskan Native World Olympics but 25 of them decided they didn't need to make reservations in advance so I had to find them rooms. They are all cramming into 5 doubles we had left so good luck there. Prep crew as usual didn't clean all their rooms, so when a guest checked into her room and found lots of porn on the walls, chewing tobacco and beer bottles all over, she was upset. I had to clean another room myself so she would have some place to stay. We had to deal with cops because someone dialed 911+ number instead of 91+ their number on their room phone. Then someone dropped their car keys down the elevator so UPD had to be called again. All of my cash drawers are mysterious missing money. And now it's 11:30pm and my last task of the day was to collect several pounds of whale blubber from one of our Eskimo guests and find a place to store it. This wasn't a last minute thing though. My boss informed me in advance that I would be the designated blubber picker upper.

This job is draining me. I can't even sleep through the night anymore because I anticipate phone calls, which I usually get a few of during the night. I will never take a 24/7 job again.

The 4th of July I didn't do anything again because I was working. I was still bouncing hall to hall at midnight and it still wasn't dark enough for fireworks. Apparently they still try to have them but I didn't hear anyone actually going to them or see anything. For the last two weekends my roommates have been gone and my co-intern has been on vacation so I've had the apartment to myself. So when I am not at work I have been pretty bored lately. I actually helped Kristen clean and prep a room because I had nothing else to do. Why am I not in Boston right now? Why am I not in Texas or New York right now? Alaska has had its fun moments but I am in a boring stretch now.

Then there is Old Blue, our not-so trusty 87 ford tempo. According to the police officer that pulled it over, it hasn't been inspected since 1991. Now if I hadn't been to the doctor since 1991 I should probably be put out of commission too, but not Old Blue. My boss swears that it's perfect to drive. So if you are reading this out there and later read I die in a car crash, please relay this information to whoever is my legal representative.