Endgame Viable

What is up with Google Reader?? Half the time I click on anything the entire browser freezes up for minutes on end. I can only assume it’s doing some kind of asynchronous request that would probably take a fraction of a second on a non-sucky network connection. Unfortunately, at work, where I’m stuck with Internet Explorer 6 and one of the crappiest networks imaginable, it blows. I was trying to use it for a handful of feeds, but I’ve given up on it and gone back to a synchronized folder in FeedDemon.