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At the end of every week, we gather at Lady Business HQ to share media thoughts and chat about the recent happenings in our tiny spheres of human experience. Feel free to join in, but note our comment policy if you're new! :D

As always, puns are welcome.


This week was so terrible that there are no words for it. Have a blanket fort.

a dog pulls a blue blanket off the top of a cage and wraps up in it as he climbs in and lays down


We've discussed names like Chaturday, Business Casual, The Water Trough, and Ponies Express. Clearly we can use some help and would appreciate your suggestions (feel free to vote in the comments, too)!

Poll #17563 Potential Feature Names
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4


What should we call this adventure?


Date: 2016-07-09 08:13 pm (UTC)
justira: A purple, gender-ambiguous unicorn pony in the style of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. (lady business)
From: [personal profile] justira
I am having an anxiety day! So that's not good.

I've finished Game Change from last week, which ended on the nice note of Obama and Hillary Clinton making peace and her becoming Secretary of State. It opened with the rather bitter primaries between them, so it was a nice full circle. I'm now on to the sequel, Double Down. I've gotten through Part I, which was about Obama's presidency and the runup to the election season; now the book is backtracking in Part II to the start of the Republican primaries and the hot, hot mess the field was that year. I didn't really pay close attention to the Republican primaries that year, so I'm learning a lot about what a shitshow that all was. So many names in the ring, so many flameouts. I also picked up Big Girls Don't Cry today, which is about the women of the 2008 election. That's probably going to be my last elections book for a while, as I've fair glutted myself on election stuff. I think I'm taking out the stress of the 2016 election by delving into elections of the past to remind myself that it does all turn out okay in the end, even if getting there is super stressful.

On the fiction side of things, I've ostensibly started Cryoburn, but really I just cracked it and put a bookmark in. Nothing to report so far.

Also continuing with the watching of Adventure Time. We finished the Flame Princess arc, which did not end very well for Finn but he deserved it, and have started... the Earl of Lemongrab arc. It was a drunken decision and I may regret it.

Date: 2016-07-10 07:23 am (UTC)
renay: photo of the milky way from new zealand on a clear night (Default)
From: [personal profile] renay
GO AWAY ANXIETY

I should probably read some election books but it all seems pretty tiring right now. I may try Notorious RBG soon, though, since that seems fun and less fraught.

Date: 2016-07-10 07:36 am (UTC)
transcendancing: Darren Hayes quote "Life is for leading, for not people pleasing" (Default)
From: [personal profile] transcendancing
Notorious RBG is on my list of things I'd like to read at some point in the future when I can stand non-fiction again.

Date: 2016-07-10 07:57 am (UTC)
renay: photo of the milky way from new zealand on a clear night (Default)
From: [personal profile] renay
It took me about a year and a half post-degree program to do long form nonfiction and a good seven months to really get into fiction, too, without feeling incredibly guilty. SIGH, school/programs.

Date: 2016-07-10 08:04 am (UTC)
transcendancing: Darren Hayes quote "Life is for leading, for not people pleasing" (Default)
From: [personal profile] transcendancing
I'm at least not dealing with guilt - just sheer unable to process/think my way through extra non-fiction and noping out of it for the moment. It'll happen and I'm just happy to let it be there until I'm ready.
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