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Glee geography, story blather
I've been fudging a bit of the geography in my story, some on purpose, some because my brain is direction dumb.
In the absence of more specific information from the show, it's hard to imagine Kurt commuting two hours to Westerville during S2, so I've assumed that WMHS and most of the kids are well to the east of downtown Lima, and, for the purposes of Blaine not having to drive 2 hours to get to WMHS, that Blaine's family lives to the west of Westerville.
I attended a rural high school near Pensacola, FL, and while we were about a 30 min drive from downtown Pensacola, we still considered ourselves to be, essentially, living in P'cola. So I'm hoping it's okay to make these sort of assumptions with Glee and geography?
I'm thinking about this partly because with the Finchel wedding at (one assumes) Lima City Hall/City Council Chambers, the kids are finding themselves in Downtown Lima, which honestly doesn't seem to suck quite as badly as one would expect. There's even a comic shop! I am thinking that it may be just a direction the kids rarely go? But, I retain license to artistic liberties.
I also screwed up geographically. I have a terrible directional/orientational/spatial sense. I can literally get lost while following a map (seriously, I will see I need to turn left, tell myself I'm turning left, and turn right instead), so even though I do look at Google maps from time to time for the purposes of writing this story, in my head I swapped Columbus and Dayton and plopped it on top of Cinncinnati (WTF). It's like spatial dyslexia (I call it dysduxia, but from what I've read it can be related to dyspraxia, which I don't have, or dyscalculia, which may be it since while I'm good at higher math (multiple variable calculus yay), I'm rubbish at arithmetic (long division boo)), and it's super irksome, so I have to go back and fix geographical stuff now, and I hate that, making such dumb mistakes. Stupid brain.
In the absence of more specific information from the show, it's hard to imagine Kurt commuting two hours to Westerville during S2, so I've assumed that WMHS and most of the kids are well to the east of downtown Lima, and, for the purposes of Blaine not having to drive 2 hours to get to WMHS, that Blaine's family lives to the west of Westerville.
I attended a rural high school near Pensacola, FL, and while we were about a 30 min drive from downtown Pensacola, we still considered ourselves to be, essentially, living in P'cola. So I'm hoping it's okay to make these sort of assumptions with Glee and geography?
I'm thinking about this partly because with the Finchel wedding at (one assumes) Lima City Hall/City Council Chambers, the kids are finding themselves in Downtown Lima, which honestly doesn't seem to suck quite as badly as one would expect. There's even a comic shop! I am thinking that it may be just a direction the kids rarely go? But, I retain license to artistic liberties.
I also screwed up geographically. I have a terrible directional/orientational/spatial sense. I can literally get lost while following a map (seriously, I will see I need to turn left, tell myself I'm turning left, and turn right instead), so even though I do look at Google maps from time to time for the purposes of writing this story, in my head I swapped Columbus and Dayton and plopped it on top of Cinncinnati (WTF). It's like spatial dyslexia (I call it dysduxia, but from what I've read it can be related to dyspraxia, which I don't have, or dyscalculia, which may be it since while I'm good at higher math (multiple variable calculus yay), I'm rubbish at arithmetic (long division boo)), and it's super irksome, so I have to go back and fix geographical stuff now, and I hate that, making such dumb mistakes. Stupid brain.