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This county map of Ohio showing results on Issue 1 (banning gay marriage and unmarried benefits) is very interesting. Only one county in the state, Athens, home of Ohio University, voted any semblance of No. Franklin County is the white county in the middle, where Columbus is. We were pretty much dead even. The rest of the state is various shades of pink and red, though Cuyahoga is about as light pink as you can get.

I've got to force myself to stop looking at the analysis of all the numbers. I'm getting more depresed by the minute.

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There are people jumping up and down cheering here. I feel like a pariah.

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I think I just had a nano breakthough. I realized that what I had been writing seemed very stale, and just like play directions.

Then I remembered that I wanted to use a "chatty-cathy" narrator. The narrator sounds like s/he is talking with you over brunch. The great thing with this is that you're not sure it's not the main character, and you also trust her instantly.

The other great things: it makes the story much more interesting, and makes my word count bulk up a bit. I've got 3,094 words now, which isn't half bad given that no writing at all took place last night. I'm a little behind, but not enough to worry about yet. Maybe I'll pull this off after all.