"Waste more time."
Rarely had your scribe bothered to make New Year's resolutions, much less follow through on them. This one was different. As the clock turned over to 2010, it's what I set out to do in earnest.
The details up to that point are tedious. After humping it in D.C. since 2003, I was tired. Tired of the politics, tired of the godawful weather, tired of D.C.'s culture of pointless productivity, endless boozing, and ambition uber alles.
I wanted to get out and, more to the point, to not take D.C. home with me. One huge problem long-term denizens of D.C. face is reentry. The tempo of normal America is slower. Many of the habits you pick up in D.C. do not serve you well elsewhere. This leads to frustration on, say, visits home to the family.
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