Internet. Some days I just want it at school.

Today I had two classes taking up the first two periods then have free time the rest of the day. Of first it sounds cool, but then you realize that you must take up that time with activities that would seem acceptable in an office setting with coworkers and students constantly in and out of the room. That unfortunately cuts out both porn and PC games.

What I usually end up doing is either studying Japanese, reading a book, playing my DS but attempting to look like I’m not having too much fun and that I’m actually using the dictionary, or staring off into space. Notice that ‘working’ is not an option. It’s been known to happen before, but it comes and goes so quickly and rarely that you’re not sure if you just saw a mermaid or a dolphin.

Some days, though, I bring my computer. I don’t bring my computer to school very often because its siren call is too great and I get no studying in. If I were to bring my computer to school everyday I’d have probably studied a grand total of two pages worth of Japanese textbook since I got here. So back to the internet.

Out of my four schools, two have internet accessible to me via my laptop. My favorite school for internet simply has an unsecured wireless network. Easy peasy, it’s all good. Sadly I’m only at that school about four days per termFor the other internetable school I sniped an ethernet cord from a nearby desk of a teacher that doesn’t own a laptop, threaded it back to my desk, and viola, internet. Now the reason this entry is getting typed up is because I’m not at either of these schools, else I would be reading someone else’s writings, no doubt.

The two non-internetable schools like to tease. For instance, at my current school there’s an ethernet cable with internet that goes to every teacher’s desk. Too bad the desk they gave me is a separate little island of desks. As I’m the only ‘teacher’ that sits at one of these four storage desks, there’s no cabling nearby I can hijack. Hell, there probably wouldn’t even be an extension cord leading down here had they not decided to put the fax machine on the desk next to mine. Summary: All other teachers have ethernet/internet. I do not.

The other school is a different sort of tease. Like all of the other schools (except the wireless one) there are Ethernet cables going to every teacher’s desk. This school is fucked up in that they decided that they were for local network usage only. Yeah, you can plus in and pretend that you’re all going to internet it up, but really it’s completely fucking useless unless you want to access a file or printer share. (&*%^

Today I was actually going to work on something that I could do offline, but once I got to school I realized that I had saved all of my files on my external at home. Bah. So, I write.

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