::A Geek in Korea::

Something weird was going on with the school today. When I arrived, the manager asked me if I had touched his computer. Since he was at work when I left, and he basically never leaves the machine, I don’t know when I would have even had the opportunity. His files had gone missing, meaning a year’s worth of work was gone. I’m sure the implications of this suck much harder than I realize at the moment, but really, a manager not backing up his work is just asking for problems.

Not only did we have a computer go and lose documents, but all the school’s clocks went crazy today. We all have independent clocks, mounted fairly high on walls that have their own batteries. No one tends to mess with the clocks since they are either too short, or would get ratted on by other students. I keep a watch on me at all times anyway, and a phone with a clock on it too, do the chances my students would be let out early would be slim anyway.

During the first sets of classes for the day, I went to class according to the proper time in the office, but found out I was ten minutes late. The office clock had become ten minutes slow in the time I had spent in the office. I didn’t know what had happened until after my class had left and someone climbed the wall to reset the clock.

I wasn’t the only person to have a problem with their class times. One teacher lost track of the time while playing a game, looked up to see he was past the time on his classroom clock, and let his students out five minutes early. He thought it was odd that all the other teachers were keeping their students late, but couldn’t recall his students after he realized his mistake. He reset his clock in his classroom too.

The clock in the kindergarten room also started to keep poor time and was ten minutes slow. This clock was almost tamper proof, as even I had to get a table to pull it off the wall. There was no way the children or anyone else had touched it. This I attributed to the battery being slow, as the second hand didn’t move evenly.

The fact that four strange things happened on the same day might just be a coincidence. It’s very likely that the batteries of the school were all purchased on the same day, and through a tremendous coincidence, all happened to go dead on the same day, within the same few hours. The computer eating my manager’s files might be a virus, even though his scan returned clean.

Whatever is going on, it’s kinda spooky.