Everything’s new

May 25, 2009  4:48 pm

Some of you may know, but recently my life changed…a lot. In part because of all the financial craziness happening, I opened myself up to a new opportunity. And along it came.

Not long after I met my new colleagues, which spurred a move to a new area – a city (DC)! A new job and just a wicked major (as they say back N of Boston) life shift for me.

I work for a small but fast-growing nutritional supplement company that designs products for use under a physician’s care for medical indications. Theralogix. I’m diving into the science of nutrition (exploring the power of intelligent nutritional supplementation for medical indications). I work with a fun, smart team, and it’s all good.

The city is interesting – the museums are great (and free). I have a goal of meeting the Obamas, and hope the natives will help me out with that.

People here can be very wound up – I don’t think they even realize how wound up they are. And, they tend to work a lot. Monster hours are the norm here. I think it comes right from the top – you know how they were always in at 6a and out at 1a or 3a on West Wing?

Washington is an interesting place, and unique in a couple ways. The area is filled with government workers – military, NIH, congress, etc etc. These are folks who are dedicating their lives to building structures, hopefully that work. While there are free spirit/free thinkers here, everyone is conscious of structures and rules. People pay there taxes on time here. Extensions arn’t even a consideration.

This is so different from Nantucket and Hawaii, two places where offbeat, outlaw characters are the rule. Where those freak-flags are flyin’, and rules, even laws seem pretty open to interpretation. It’s sort of refreshing, people paying their taxes and reacting as you’d expect. It’s, well, normal.

Another aspect of DC that is interesting and unique to me is that it holds (centralizes? intensifies?) power. Political, social, financial now, but thus the structure – we need a strong container here for all the power. The monuments downtown are such masculine power centers.  You just don’t see that many places!

So, I’m here, studying yoga with Suzy Hurley, thinking about supplements, and at the moment, missing my husband, who’s on Nantucket taking care of our place.