In the commentary here it's been noted that although the US is in a technical recession, there is a panel in the US that weighs the drops in GDP and other factors in the economy in its determination of whether the country is 'officially' in a recession. (The technical definition is what is used here.)
To BnaC's question, my circumstances are not relevant to your discussion, but there is too much else going on in the economy here for any prospect of us being recession-bound (Q1 was positive, so Q2 (released next month) and Q3 would have to be negative to meet the technical definition). There seems to be too much happening in the US too. My circumstances insulate me from many of the effects anyway.