There is no English word like 麻烦. It basically means annoying or to annoy, but really those words do not live up to how great the word 麻烦 (ma fan) is. And really, today has all been about 麻烦.
First there was the 事情 that began yesterday. In trying to get a visa for the summer, I've been working though connections of connections, which means I need to go to 无锡 Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu, China. It also means the people who are helping me with this don't give a damn about me or my schedule. After I called them, they told me I need to go to Wuxi this Sunday. Which is great except that I have final exams scheduled for students this Monday. And apparently the time they schedule to process this visa cannot be changed. So now I need to change exam times for 50 students from about 5 different classes, some of which I don't have contact information for.
Then there's the little things: the student who called me this morning saying he can't make his exam time on Thursday and therefore he needs to take it on Monday (I think I forgot to tell him i'll be in Wuxi...). Another student just called, asking where I was. This is a student who I think may have come to class once before the final exam. Maybe. She's the only English major student who I did not recognize. Which means she never gave a speech, which means she needed to give one this Thursday. Apparently when I said Thursday she heard Wednesday. I would feel sorry for her but she never came to class.
Then there's the random person who had added me on MSN awhile ago. I said yes cuz I figured I must know this guy from somewhere. So he ims me today asking who I am. He thought I was Joseph Haskell, a common mistake with my email address. Everyone thinks i'm someone else. He keeps bothering me asking for Joseph's email address. Obviously I have absolutely no idea who Joseph is. It turns out this guy is a 12 year old from Canada. Before I found that out, he had asked my age and if I was married.
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