The Cherry Blossom Opening is today in DC as well as the DC Kite Festival (and a race, too, I think). I hate the fact that I miss this stuff when I’m not in the city and when I live in the area I never bothered to attend any of those events. I really miss DC, dude. I miss the culture, the diversity, the food, the alcohol, the conversations, and the C&O Canal’s running trial. I swear, I hate hate hate running on a treadmill and running in the city here just isn’t the same peace I’d get from running by the Potomac River.
I’m really looking forward to being back in DC next week, even if it’s going to be for a couple of hours. Excellent company, good food, hopefully a nice nice nice bottle of wine (maybe white if it’s nice outside), checking out the Cherry Blossoms and stopping by the Jefferson Memorial along the Tidal Basin as the sun sets, and then checking out a good concert at the 9:30 club. Frankly, I can’t imagine a better way to spend a Friday, the only sad thing is that it’s such a fleeting event. Regrets definitely creep in when I realize that this is the life I had and chose to throw away…and then I had to up and move away from my beloved DC to try to rebuild. And the rebuilding is good, don’t get me wrong, but I miss how it used to be. The awareness that it can’t ever be like how it once was is sucky, but there’s also the awareness that the trick is in a) determining the life that one wants, and b) moving mountains to get to that point.
I tell people that I lived in England, but I didn’t. I will make it true, though. After law school, I’d really like to get to England to either continue studying at the LSE or Cambridge or to work for Oxfam or an organization (organisation) along those lines. I will make that so. I will make that true.
And I will return to DC. Either as a transfer student or maybe after law school and after England. I can’t see myself straying away from DC for too long. The funny thing is that while I was always proud of considering myself a drifter of sorts, DC has somehow become my home in the truest sense. And I miss it. And I will return someday.