Work is chaotic. My assistant, Rachel,. is leaving the end of the month to move to Minneapolis. That's going to be a huge loss. Once again, I spend a year or more training someone only to have them leave, as a result of which someone else gets the benefit of the time I put in with them. C'est la vie.
To her credit, Rachel has handled her departure well by giving me three months notice that she really, really wanted to get out of Nashville. I am not sure she is running to something as much as running away from something but it is not my decision to a make, obviously. Plus, she's 30, single, so there is no time like now to try something different. I am proud of her, very much so, for taking a chance. I want it to go well for her and, most importantly, I want her to have a happy and fulfilling life.
I have a new associate starting next week. I need the help, of course, but training someone will slow me down for sure. That's just part of it, though. I also enjoy the mentoring part of practicing law, too. A lot, actually. My concern, of course, is getting a new legal assistant hired, and having her start, at the same time a new associate is starting. I am not sure how I am going to pull that off.
My plan is not to take today and tomorrow off from work. Rather, I am going to work from Sewanee. I already was going to be at the Caverns, in Pelham, Tennessee, just down the road from Sewanee, on Friday night. I have tickets to see Deer Tick and Drive By Truckers play Friday night, which I am incredibly excited about. My friend and former client, Todd Mayo, owns the Caverns, and he set me up with tickets several months ago when the show was announced.
So, my plan is to work, read, run on the Mountain Goat Trail, have coffee at Stirling's on campus, eat dinner at Judith one night, hopefully, and breathe in the Monteagle Mountain air. Perhaps I will have a bourbon or glass of wine, too. What I really want is a little quietude and some time alone. A few days . . . away.
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