A Day Like 2016

Due to July 4 being a Saturday, I have the week before and the week after off from classes since so many people are taking one or both weeks off for vacation. This has afforded me the luxury to live life like I used to before the mah Jongg craze took over.

Today was the most throw back day I have had in a long time. I started this morning with a great meeting with two fantastic food Bank of Central and Eastern NC employees, Cody and Emmy. They both started at the Food Bank long after I rolled off the board so this was our inaugural meeting. Having served on the board longer than any one person beside Ash Pipkin I had a lot of history and opinions to share with them.

It was a wonderful chance for me to catch up on the day-to-day goings on at my favorite non-profit. All my love for the mission of the Food Bank was right at the surface and I am looking forward to helping these big hearted young people.

Following that meeting I went to lunch with Lynn so we could rehash the wedding. We met at our usual Thai Cafe, where we have been having lunch together for over twenty years. I don’t know why they give us menus, we know it by heart and still only order the same thing every time.

By the time Lynn and I were almost done yakking, I noticed we were one of three tables. To my left were my old friends from Durham Magazine, Ellen and Rory. So we all got to talking and Ellen said she had just run across a copy of the “Collin Firth Issue.” We relived how it happened that I was able to get that big interview with Collin when the media relations department of his movie had said “No interviews” to everyone else.

Ellen told us that the “Collin” cover was the most highly read issue online to this day.

Spending time with Food Bank people, Durham Magazine people and Lynn all on the same day felt like a throw back to my life ten plus years ago. The nay difference is I just did not have to go to school pick up. I kind of miss school pick up.