China Mieville pitched a marxist Iron Man: it got rejected.

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ETA: weirdly enough, my work webfilter thinks China Mieville's website is pornography. MERF.

Okay, I just checked -- the Black N Bluegrass girls are based in Northern Kentucky (which, for all intents and purposes, is the south side of Cincinnati).

The Cincinnati Rollergirls' varsity team is the Black Sheep, and the junior varsity team is the Silent Lambs. We've got tickets to see them in a couple of weeks.

Do I live in a great city, or what? Not one, but TWO roller derby teams!

mr. flea has been told to report in on Monday and shut things down, if it goes there. He may not bring his government-issued laptop home. He notes that a colleague said they were practically half shut down all the time anyway - a lot of their important support people are retirees who work half-time, so there are always things that have to wait until the day so-and-so actually works. Some of what they say about government efficiency is true, it turns out.

Jesse, we're good. mac is making another big stride with his therapy and continues to have virtually no behavior problems.

I got over my low level depression wave of 2 weeks ago and got the ok from my psychiatrist to up my meds that week of my cycle.

He may not bring his government-issued laptop home.

Didn't he buy himself a swanky Macbook (Pro?) to use at work, anyway? Which I assume he can and does take home.

Not that that's really relevant to the shutdown; it's just a detail that stuck in my head.

No, we have in fact discussed this very point! Although NPR reports that it is in fact a criminal offense to work while furloughed as non-essential.

Jesse, we're good. mac is making another big stride with his therapy and continues to have virtually no behavior problems.

I got over my low level depression wave of 2 weeks ago and got the ok from my psychiatrist to up my meds that week of my cycle.

That's great! I'm especially happy to hear that about E.

We have the Dallas Derby Devils and Assassination City Roller Derby. [link] [link] Assassination City are the ones we usually attend because we know a few people on a couple of teams. Plus their after parties are here [link] and that's some good times.

I worry about my cousin being furloughed. 3 kids, a new apartment and no income is bad.

Since neither my DH nor I work for the gov't, our concerns are all DC based: If the Fed gov't shuts down, all of DC local gov't shuts down - no parking enforcement, no trash pick up, etc. (We don't live in DC, but we still have to work/commute there.)

My local parents' listserv has exploded with messages of people who have to report to work, but who have kids in federal gov't daycares that will be closed, and people who will be furloughed and don't want to pay their nannies.

Worried about Japan.

Happy to hear msbelle's news.

Confused about the government possible shutdown. It seems nuts to me that people don't know ahead of time whether or not they'll need to work. I know there are contingency plans at these agencies. Why wouldn't they be shared with employees? Wonder if it's some security thing?