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Friend: "So, are you actually not traveling this weekend?"

Me: "Shocking, huh? It's the only weekend that's true until... [looking hard at the calendar] May 24th."

Friend: "Wow!"

Me: "You'd think I don't like living here... Damn holidays and weddings and festivals. My life is so hard."

Friend: "Shame on all those holidays and happy people!"

Me: "Exactly."

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Don't worry, I still love living in Vermont. Maybe even moreso now that I seem to spend very little of my free time here. What's not to love? The last line of the story about Vermont in today's New York Times says it all:

“I know a nice place where you could go and take a picture,” he said, “but unfortunately the landowner has been repelling people with firearms.”

And people wonder where Vermont gets its reputation.