Shutdown

Perhaps the one good thing that has come out of the federal government shutdown is that I got to have breakfast at Perkins on Thursday morning with a young friend who is at home instead of at her internship with a federal agency. The most direct impact the shutdown has had on me is that PubMed, the National Institute of Health's database, isn't being updated, and as a textbook editor I spend quite a lot of time on the website verifying article titles. Somebody at PubMed is going to have a LOT of uploading to do when the budget is finally passed.