Children are dirty and they spread disease. But I like them anyway.

Bleurgh. Mondays are usually my blissful day off after a hardcore weekend: no teaching, and no worrying yet about doing all my lesson planning and making materials. But I have a stomach bug. I’ve spent eighteen of the last twenty-four hours asleep, and much of the other six throwing up.

And I woke up blissfully expecting it to have been a twenty-four hour thing. NOT SO MUCH.

FUCKING CHILDREN. I bet I know which kid it was, too. He came in on Saturday saying he was sick - “my stomach ow” - and then gave me a snack (which was super-sweet though I didn’t eat it) and rushed to hold my hand when we played games. I washed my hands after the class but clearly that was not enough to fight off his adorable need to share his bacteria.

Ah well. This weekend was a pretty good one. ( teaching update )

Ack internet

My internet at the hotel's messed up - that is, it's connected and working but I can't use it. It keeps telling me I need a browser log-in, and redirecting me to a page via microsoft.com to a page with what looks like an IP in the URL. It wants a username and password and things, 'exactly what my ISP gave me', except of course this is a public network via my hotel. Same thing happened when I tried logging on to someone's unsecured wifi. Any ideas for what I can do other than try to get the password/username/whatever off the hotel people, which should be entertaining considering the size of the language barrier?

This has never happened to me before and it seemed to happen completely at random, but it does seem like my laptop is doing it, not the networks, since they're still showing up fine. (Although annoyingly my Kindle was too slow for me to really do anything. This shouldn't be inflicted on someone still very much recovering from a stomach bug, ffs.)

Anyway. I'll be at work for another couple of hours doing lesson-planning - if someone could help me out or give me a link to somewhere I can use to help me out, that would be FANTASTIC. My Google-fu is weak today, it seems.

I use Windows and Firefox (though Chrome didn't seem to work, either.) PLEASE GUYS. WILL SWAP PR0N FOR INTERWEBZ.

I LOGGED ONTO DREAMWIDTH ON A WORK COMPUTER, THAT IS THE EXTENT OF MY DESPERATION.