twicketface

I'm back in the cycle of having to work most days, and we haven't even started the accelerated schedule for Thanksgiving. I think that the last day I didn't do any work was November 1st. Some days I work 9 hours, and then I'm not in the mood to stare at my personal computer. We go to the farmers market Saturday mornings; I go to the office and my shrink on Mondays. That's about it. Excitement for me is going to one of the DC public library branches for our in-person book club listening session and then dinner. I'll get a bit of a break Thanksgiving weekend, which is only 10 days away. /slump

ICE raided an apartment building less than a mile from our house last week. Supposedly they had a warrant to arrest someone, but no one seemed to know how many people were taken away. [There was no information about it in the local news--too busy covering the shutdown, I guess.] The raid happened as the local elementary school (temporarily located a few miles away) was finishing for the day, and the neighborhood mailing list was full of people coordinating what to do with children whose parents were too afraid to go to the bus stops. There's also speculation (based on publicly available requests for bids) that ICE is looking to rent space for a field office in our town.