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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.