No more proxy

So, the proxy I got to get around the (Great) Firewall that actually worked....was also loaded with malicious spyware. Hah. Ah well. So that's deleted now, and I again facebook and blog-less.

I've been quite ill for the last few days--too little sleep and horribly polluted air is my guess. Took yesterday off from work, laid on the couch and slept or watched The Colbert Report and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. It was crap...great visuals, but somehow they decided that The Chronicles of Narnia was an appropriate story to tie that deliciously nonsensical mess to...and it didn't work. At all. A few really clever moments, but the film felt like a Burton flick constrained by the Alice mythos rather than something that gave it wings. Ah well. It was a bootleg Chinese copy and pretty good quality for that, though at 2 points the film went into black and white for a few minutes...odd.

What else? Earlier this week I went with Jason (who I'm living with) to get an hour massage for US$10, which was pretty good, especially for $10! Otherwise things have been pretty quiet here, Larry has honestly kinda run out of stuff for us to do...we've been doing "online marketing" for over a week now, just trolling forums and message boards and setting up pages, which is potentially useful, but Larry is distinctly NOT someone who does computers, so all the social networking/viral marketing stuff that is possible really isn't in this context because no one will ever go on the pages or update content....ah well. Hopefully next week will be busier, I'm going to ask if I can shadow someone...I've gotten a decent data analyst/marketing perspective, but still not seen any actual 'consulting', which is what the firm, yennow, does. Still fingers crossed about something green-tech-y, but I haven't heard anything about that in a while. Since Malinda (his niece) left Larry hasn't been around out of the office, where he is, understandably, furiously busy, so I haven't gotten much time to talk.

Going out for Karaoke with Jason and most of the marketing team tonight, though, which should be fun.