Is bloglines always slow?

I’ve been using SharpReader as my RSS reader for ages. I downloaded a version of it way back when I first got into blog reading and stuck with it because it worked, to a fashion. I ignored the bloaty .Netness of it and the fact that sometimes it disapeared from my task tray yet was still running, and that sometimes it ran really slowly, and that the way it presented new postings was a bit crap…

Yesterday I decided to try bloglines instead. I quite fancied the idea of a web based reader so that I could read stuff from anywhere. I like the way bloglines works but it seems REALLY slow, is it me, is it a particularly bad day for bloglines or is it always like this?