Dear Firefox,
Are you aware of the fact that with your latest update (version 8), there are now a bunch of incompatibility issues with add-ons & plugins, especially with gmail, such that a) the rich text editor sometimes won't load and that b) the gchat applet never loads correctly unless I turn off my add-ons & plugins?
It's greatly inconvenient, given that I need to run adblocker so I don't accidentally infect my poor computer with something during the two days a week when I actually have the time to browse the internet and that I would prefer to run QuickProxy so that, when at home, I can, with the click of a single button, turn on / off the proxy set up that gives me access to the university subscriptions, which I need in order to read the majority of the scientific magazines.
So, with all due respect, please fix it. I will check back on the progress in exactly one week. Much obliged.
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In other news, days continues to be insane. I am once again reaching the point where I wake up randomly in the middle of the night with mind running full speed thinking about one experiment / project or another. It makes it extremely hard to go back to sleep though last night, in a new and interesting twist, the song track to Beauty and the Beast (yes the Disney version) was added the trains of thought. I blame the fact that I spent most of the day in lab, where, for the majority of the time, there was only one labmate and we share a similar taste in music and ended up listening to a lot of songs from Teh Disney Classics. (Fun fact about working on holidays & weekends: usually there are few enough people that we get to play music on appropriated speakers. Loudly.) Pondering the effects of G-protein-coupled-receptor mutations on cancer metastases while hearing echoes of Gustav's self-conceit at some unholy hours at Dark O' Clock is definitely one of the more surreal moments in my life. It's the sort of thing which inevitably results in me catching myself re-evaluating my relative states of sanity before giving it up as a bad job.
All of this contributed to the fact that I woke up at 8am this (chilly and raining) morning with a headache and utter lack of inclination to be productive. I would like to have a month, I think, to do nothing but read and draw. Sadly this will not be happening anytime soon, but I am now almost desperate for the roadtrip in two weeks, where I'm hoping to recapture a bit of that feeling while driving down a mostly deserted road in the middle of nowhere at 80mph.
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