One of the goals of FatCratz is to capture in all its effervescent nuance the life experience of those who spend the vast majority of their professional careers "inside the beltway." We want to capture it the DC experience in a bottle (apologies to Jim Croce) and pour it out for all of America to, er, enjoy.
One reader suggests that we allow the FatCratz out there to speak for themselves, and suggests a method for doing so. We'll call it "Moving On."
We beltway denizens all know the emails that circulate when staffers move from one office to the next, often bearing subject lines like "moving on" or "farewell" or "see you later, suckers." Their purpose, ostensibly, is to provide contact information so all our networking contacts can remain up to date. But this purpose is often a pretext for a victory lap or two.
In that spirit, here's our first "Moving On". Part of its glory is its length (I've included only 279 of its 700 words), but this is also a priceless line: "...for the first time in my adult life, I will go to work at a place not connected to the Capitol Building underground. I’m at once thrilled and horrified." Enjoy (*see privacy policy below):
