I'm back (sort of) after a week in Boston, then a week in Atlanta, both for work. The week in Boston was sort of fun -- the Annual Meeting of the consulting firm I work for. Although sometimes this meeting can be a drag, this year there was lots of drinking and decent conversation. Plus, I won a really nice award--the President's Award--that looks like this:
Sparkly.
It was also fun to visit Boston, where we lived for two years (well, Cambridge). Some places you leave but always feel a connection to. Others, you leave and never really feel the place was "yours" in any way. I feel the former about Western Massachusetts, and the latter about Boston. I also remember driving through Harrisonburg, Virginia (where I went to college) about a year after I graduated, fully expecting to feel some sort of nostalgia or at least some deeper sense of recognition, but instead it just felt empty. Perhaps it was the curse of the college town -- new blood, all the time.
Anyway, I spent last week working on a project in Atlanta. Apologies to anyone who lives there or otherwise loves this town, but I really despise it. All sprawl, no soul. Perhaps I really have become a New York snob, as Steve says, but my dislike for Atlanta predates my moving to New York. So there.
Well, I must go continue to be a corporate drone. Sorry for complete and total absence of late. Big discussion this weekend about Gusto's future...
