I’m currently on my second sick day in four years in Vienna. I had a 101.8 fever on Monday, though I somehow made it through the school day. Barely. For my last class, I just gave out the assignments with minimal explanation and told them to read the book and work in groups. I promised we’d go over questions on another day.
I have spent the last few days between my bed and the bathroom, trying desperately to keep hydrated. It’s probably a bad sign that I’ve started thinking a bed pan is a good idea.
Apparently I’m in good company too, as 6 staff and almost 50 kids were out sick yesterday. 50 kids is almost a fourth of our enrollment!
I’m not really sure what happened. I mean, it’s been more than a week since I last ate a hot dog off the ground.
Though my roommate is taking good care of me, he is also gloating over the fact he has avoided this outbreak by getting a flu shot. That’s his theory, at least. I am half-tempted to lick his toothbrush as a test of his all-powerful flu shot, but that would just be mean. “How’s your flu shot working now?”
No, my computer’s not gay…or a cowboy. And really, it didn’t catch fire. But the screen is completely broken. Sad. It almost slipped off my lap Sunday morning, and though I caught it on the top corner of the screen I must have pressed too hard. All I get now is a white screen with a colorful crack running from the bottom left corner to the top right. Underneath the crack are thin rainbow-colored vertical lines.
Question to my AP Computer Science class:
For the last week or so, I’ve been talking in my classes about Internet safety in light of some recent backlash against MySpace. There are quite a few cases now of kids meeting people on MySpace and being abducted, molested, raped, and even murdered. To be fair, MySpace isn’t the only medium for this time of abuse, just the current favorite. It is very easy to make friends on the Internet, and you never really know who you’re talking to. In any case, it has provided for some good class discussions, and I hope also raised the awareness level of my students.
Apparently several cats in Austria have been found with the bird flu.