For this night, and the next two, I'm sleeping in a hotel room in Fernley, Nevada, a good way from my rented one-bedroom apartment in Sacramento. I spent the day breaking in my new REI waterproof cross-trainers by trudging around a community 27 miles from Fernley, an assortment of adjacent homes that doesn't even have a collective name. I was engaged in GOTV canvassing for Obama, and I seriously hate it.
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