Oxford has been filling up with people all week and today the crowd is peaking. Yesterday at lunch, there were no parking places at the University Ave. Newk's and today it is like that all over town. There are small packs of families prowling the sidewalks. Many are of the conventional variety - husband and wife with a college age child and another younger child or two. Others with just one parent, usually the Mother, or maybe just with the one child. I wonder if they are the only child.
My daughter is driving from Humboldt with a friend and this will be, by far, the longest distance she has ever driven. They will stay until Sunday. This should be a good weekend for them with all the energy and excitement. We will go out to dinner on their arrival and be prominently out and about the remainder of the weekend. Breakfast at Big Bad Breakfast at some point; The Journey on Sunday morning. Hopefully the weekend will help motivate them for their respective senior years in high school.
I've had an interesting couple of weeks. I spent three nights in the Smoky Mountains (see prior post), attended Shelly's 20th high school reunion (more later), took a day trip to West Tennessee to appraise the rental house my renters ran out on (She praised God on Facebook all the while), and aided in lots of Nicolas's activities. Soccer practice, Tae Kwon Do, Allergy shots....I took him to get a shot yesterday and he informed the nurse that he had just completed his 11th day of First Grade. On the job front, I spent several days putting together a packet for a job at the University and then the job was abruptly pulled from the website today as I was about to send it all in. It appears they put it up the mandatory minimum; the fix was in as it so often is.
On the other hand, I have been hired to do some contract work for a criminal defense attorney who knows his stuff. I intended to approach him but he beat me to it and came to me instead. We will be working on a post-conviction appeal which will probably necessitate my visit with our client in prison. I have a feeling about this position and where it might lead. That is, other than prison, where it might lead.
A larger pack just walked by the window of the coffee shop. Four children in all, three boys and a girl, with the parents walking behind. It looks like big sister will be staying in town. The father, like so many of the fathers of the young girls, looks tense but resolved. That's a look that I understand.
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