Back to Boston
On the Mass Pike back to Boston. Actually, Franklin which is maybe forty-five minutes west of Boston. I was supposed to be signing W-2’s today, but I’m not taking the job. Instead, we’re visiting K’s sister and niece. I am incredibly disappointed. About the job, that is. Her niece is great.
In the last week,I’ve been counseled by maybe a half-dozen people. Some in politics and some just Boston residents. But all of whom have been incredibly candid and objective and great. Thanks guys. I just don’t have the experience here to know how bad the potential for damage is. The conclusion I’ve come to is this: Subpoenas and blacklists aside, the job (and indeed any other job I’ve had a lead on at the state level here) doesn’t necessarily bring me any closer to foreign policy, and so to take the risk of being shored up in Boston with no allies and no fall back position sort of doesn’t make any sense. Take that and add to it the fact that I have a federal position waiting for me at home, and there you go. Makes more sense to stay.
This isn’t to say that I’m in the Bay Area forever (as I’ve told myself over and over again in the past week). It just means that I need to sit tight until something opens up, all the while allowing my resume to gestate under Congressman X. Ugh. In any case BU’s JD/Foreign Policy program is still on the agenda. So either way, I’m shipping up to Boston at some point.
Which reminds me: Top 3 soundtracks of 2006.
1)Children of Men
2)The Departed
3)Pick of Destiny. Which I haven’t seen, but understand it’s better than a Citizen Kane.
In the last week,I’ve been counseled by maybe a half-dozen people. Some in politics and some just Boston residents. But all of whom have been incredibly candid and objective and great. Thanks guys. I just don’t have the experience here to know how bad the potential for damage is. The conclusion I’ve come to is this: Subpoenas and blacklists aside, the job (and indeed any other job I’ve had a lead on at the state level here) doesn’t necessarily bring me any closer to foreign policy, and so to take the risk of being shored up in Boston with no allies and no fall back position sort of doesn’t make any sense. Take that and add to it the fact that I have a federal position waiting for me at home, and there you go. Makes more sense to stay.
This isn’t to say that I’m in the Bay Area forever (as I’ve told myself over and over again in the past week). It just means that I need to sit tight until something opens up, all the while allowing my resume to gestate under Congressman X. Ugh. In any case BU’s JD/Foreign Policy program is still on the agenda. So either way, I’m shipping up to Boston at some point.
Which reminds me: Top 3 soundtracks of 2006.
1)Children of Men
2)The Departed
3)Pick of Destiny. Which I haven’t seen, but understand it’s better than a Citizen Kane.
1 Comments:
such is life! you have enough subpoenas to deal with in your personal life as it is. ha.
It is better that Citizen Kane. And Cats, too.
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