Hanging on to my 24 hr/wk job

Almost unnoticed amid the spectacular coverage of the Southern California wildfires was the news that California's unemployment insurance system is almost broke. One of Gov. Arnold's first priorities will be to ask the federal government to bail it out. And we'll be right in line with Texas and California. Great.

And for no reason in particular, did you know Austin, Tex. has its own Roller Derby-like league, entirely featuring girls who, if they were in San Francisco, would probably be working at the Lusty Lady?

And did you know that this month's literary sensation is a teenage girl whose angsty diary of her highschool freshman year for $100,000? A parody wasn't far behind.