Heh. I can't believe this is my second NaNo. Not as a participant, just as a spectator.

That's a great quote and exactly how I feel. I mean, I'm all for finding real life analogies in fantasy books but I've seen some ideas where people have it completely backwards, where people pretend their real life situation is anything like the fictional one when it's not. Very scary. I kind of wish they would just vote in that fantasy world and not the real one.:-)