Before I go…
Monday, March 8th, 2004Sorry I’ve been missing for a while. I’m just on my way out to DC and wanted to let you all know that I actually miss posting here and the opportunity to talk to you all.
In these little quiet moments amidst all of the noise and distraction around us, you and I get to spend quality moments. Fair reader, you really are a good listener.
Your attentive eyes that gloss over my words and thoughts in all of their discombobulated glory keep me going on days like these - where the snow pellets sting just a little more not because of the wind but because it’s March and 3 days ago it was in the seventies.
Trying to wrap and ramp up simultaneously has been the biggest challenge of this DC as a home away from home experience. I’m sure that when I get off the DuPont Circle Metro, and see the little theater and bookshop and the happy people walking about I’ll have secondary home nostalgia for the moments in the future where I’m not travelling anymore, when DC will be, like all memories, snippets of buildings and faces and moments of interest - like the old of counsel attorney who teaches at GW University and wants to chat about things.
The man asks of me valid questions of technological law and carries my suggestions into a tapestry that he will proffer to his client. His eyes are inquisitive and excited, like mine were when I thought the world was new and full of opportunity. In some ways he reminds me of a grandfather or great uncle I’ve not had.
In the cafe I frequent for lunch I hear stories about Hilary Clinton and NASA and the FCC told as first hand accounts, missing the pre-junctory “I was reading on CNN that..”
These are the real movers and shakers of the world, and being among them makes me quieter and a bit more introspective - not a bad thing to those of you who know me.
I’m smoking again. I hate eating alone and walking alone. It is what it is.
It’s as if my life is a DVR and I’ve paused it to handle this thing in DC, and in a parallel universe I’ve completed boot camp and looking at the world differently. It’s very perplexing.
I’ve got a flight to catch.
Talk to you soon,
Jimmy