There will almost certainly be a shutdown of the US government tonight. In about 90 minutes.

I work for them.

At the start of the day, I did not know if I would be declared critical/exempt (work and get paid), excepted (work, get paid when the shutdown ends), or furloughed (don’t work, get paid when the shutdown ends.) I had a guess as to which.

And I was right... with a caveat.

I am excepted, but weird excepted because of the specific nature of my work.

I support group X, but I am employed by group Y. Group X has a special situation for funding and they are not immediately impacted by a potential shutdown. If the shutdown lasts longer than X's funding, my status gets reevaluated.

Yay.