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MY FIREFOX IS SICK. HELP.

It won't let me save pictures anymore. If I go into the error console, that's what I get :

Error: not well-formed
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Joey/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/dfuwb2qt.default/localstore.rdf
Line: 1, Column: 1
Source Code:
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I have no fucking clue what's wrong. I've not done anything special lately. I've tried reinstalling the program but it doesn't work. And picture-saving works fine in IE, so it's not my computer.

ARGH.

A few things I wanted to mention before I head for bed :

- Universal is apparently tracking fan-run sites that sell fan-made merchandising revolving around Serenity. The Blue Sun site has already been shut down, and now it's Black Market Beagles site that's shutting down for fears of legal action. The very talented 11th Hour has also been contacted by Universal. It's scary and it's pissing me off. The fans have done so much for Firefly and Serenity, they did so much guerrila marketing, and then Universal was more than happy to have very talented artists willing to come up with designs and fans that would buy them.

- 6-word science-fiction. Authors were asked to tell 6-word stories, and Joss is included. Some of them are just brilliant.

- It seems more and more likely the MAG could hire me, pretty much for the job I'm doing right now (basically Volunteer Coordinator... *wink* wields_a_pen). For that however, we need to get a grant from the Conseil Général d'Ile de France, but we met with them a couple of weeks ago and they seemed pretty confident. I'm crossing my fingers, because that would be pretty much the best solution to my whole job issue.

I canNOT believe the little fucker.

Nicolas Sarkozy, our "Secretary of the Interior" (I don't trust the dictionary that this is actually the right term in American English), has been trying to pass that law to deport a lot of illegal immigrants and their families (including kids currently going to school in France), and today just showed a little more leniency, annoucing :

"If a foreign child is born in France or came here as a baby, if she/he goes to school in France, if he doesn't speak his/her native language, if he/she doesn't have links with her/his native country, it would be very cruel to send him/her back there forcefully."

There's a lot that annoys me about him and the laws he's trying to pass, but that? I am disgusted. Bilingualism, multiculturalism, is a CHANCE. Not given to many kids. Something that should embraced, because that's how you bring down cultural barriers. That's how you make people understand each other. To suggest that a kid is less likely to be sent back to his native country (anyway a child born in France is FRENCH, like it or not) if he or she has been uproot and has cut off all contact with his native culture, his/her elders and past? Is just simply sickening to me.

It's easy to talk about a possible clash of civilisations, when everything we do tends to separate cultures. Urgh.

Just did a school debate that was very tiring, the kids (well, a few guys anyway) monopolized questions and it was all very chaotic. I'd never had to yell so much at a class so they woud calm down. It's not necessarily a bad thing, means what we're talking about interests them and makes them react, but it remains really tiring.

And as much as I try and often manage not to take what they say personally, after two hours like that, where some kids maintain that homosexuality is wrong/unnatural with a victorious grin on their face till the end, it's really hard to go down to the nurse who organized the debates and basically be told that you're a liar.

She accuses me of lying to her about our "aggrément ministériel" (ministerial approval), saying that I said we had it from the Education Nationale whereas it's not true. Which I fucking know because I'm the one supposed to write out the request for that approval. And I would never lie about something like this when I present the debates. What probably happened is that I said we were approved by the Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, which is true, and she heard "agrément" and "Ministère" and got confused, and that's all right - but that she would say right out that I'm a liar? I feel so insulted, because I would never lie about something like that and it's something I feel strongly about, and it really shakes me that she'd say that of me.

She also expressed not very nicely that she was disappointed that our debates weren't more about sexism. I explained that we never pretended to intervene specifically about sexism, that we mention sexism when we present the interventions because homophobia is, in our opinion, deeply rooted in sexism and the two notions are linked. Whatever, she wanted to hear about sexism, boys calling girls "slut" and stuff. Yeah well that's not us and don't get annoyed because we didn't do that. It pisses me off all the more that, a couple of months ago, I already spent like two hours with her (well first trying to find her because she couldn't give me the right address) talking about our debates and stuff, and I'm certain I never implied they're as much about sexism as they're about homophobia because I've presented those debates so many times for the past 7 months and again, I wouldn't lie about that.

And she made remarks about the way we handle the post-debate questionnaires, which is not a problem in itself but once more it's the way she expressed it, like gee you're really not doing this well.


Urgh. Makes you feel so great about what you're trying to achieve. Thank Joss the teacher was actually nice.