Posted 12:08 PM by Rob Holland
We threw some things out today, including a book, "How to take the SAT." It was a watershed event, causing us to muse on the fact that the last Holland child has taken her last SAT (in THIS generation, anyway). We'll wait awhile to throw out the LSAT books.

Pamela took off this morning on a bus full of wrestlers, going to the State meet with Simon and the team (and some other females, most of them team managers. More than one way to become a camp follower!)

Posted 6:50 PM by Nicholas Holland
Congratulations Pamela!!! Sarah is weeping in the corner because she knows you won't come to Transy now. Don't feel too bad, she has plenty going on in her life, not the least of which is ME!!!

My interview with S&H went well. This interview went great and I think that if they give me an offer I'll end up in Louisville for the summer. I have yet to hear from any other firm in Charlotte or Birmingham, but expect to in the next couple of weeks. Another firm in Atlanta wants to fly me there and interview me. I'm absolutely sick of traveling to see these firms, but I'll live if they pay me well.

Nicholas

Posted 12:24 PM by Rob Holland
Lunch with the Gold Dome Gang . . .

I had lunch with the daughter-person today, at the State of Georgia cafeteria. I don't work for the State of Georgia, Lynn does, but I pay taxes in Georgia, and besides, they don't care who eats in their cafeteria as long as you pay for your food. Which is generally pretty good, and cheap. I had a taco salad, which may have been a mistake, given how bloated I've felt all afternoon.

Pamela was there to meet with the 'Gold Dome Gang,' a group of education lobbyists representing metro Atlanta school districts, who get together in the Department of Education boardroom every Friday during the legislative session to discuss issues and strategies. Pamela is their intern, actually in the "employ" of Sherry Brown, who represents Decatur Schools. Janice Monk, who used to work with Lynn, is also in this group. Sherry Brown couldn't make it this week, because they are interviewing candidates for the job of principal of Decatur High School. They actually have six candidates this time! Where they found six insane people, we don't know, but we're not asking too many questions.

Normally Pamela has lunch with her mother, but like Sherry Brown, she couldn't make it. She wasn't interviewing candidates for Decatur High Principal, but she was undoubtedly doing something else important for education in Georgia. We just don't know what that is. Anyway, I took her place at lunch.

Pamela and I talked about her college prospects, and she allowed as how she was leaning toward Tulane at this point, all other things being equal. So there's hope, New Orleans fans. There's hope!

For those who knew her, Barbara Edwards is going to be memorialized at the high school through the creation of a memorial garden on the grounds. Maggie Lee is spearheading (also making an Eagle Project opportunity for her son, Ben, in the process) and Cheryl Kanes has designed the horticultural aspects. You will be able to buy a memorial stepping stone if you want, upon which you can say something, reverent or irreverent, your choice. Just keep it clean. This is a high school, after all. OK, so don't worry about it.

Posted 4:45 PM by Rob Holland
Hot news flash. Dateline New Orleans. Miss Pamela Holland, late of Decatur, Georgia, has been offered a full tuition scholarship with a fancy name to Tulane University. They called her about it this evening, on her cell phone (in the true spirit of the wired world). She immediately began to dance and sing. They said they'd even pay for her to go abroad for a year, and to stick around Tulane if she didn't finish in four years. They didn't say how many decades they would fund.

The admissions person told Pamela that her shoe project (http://www.pamelaholland.com) was "possibly the best of all the projects" and among the women in the admissions office, there was no contest. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the project, including Christopher, who set up the domain and pointed it at the shoes. Now whatever happens at Transy next week, Miss Pamela has a COUPLE in the can.

Posted 9:24 AM by Rob Holland
Looks like all the Hollands will be burning up the trails to Kentucky, as Mommy and Pamela and I will be driving up on the 20th to take Pamela to the Willie T interview. We get to have breakfast again with Transy prez Charles "Chuck" Scherer, and then while Pamela's hanging around inhaling the aura of Transylvania for two days, we plan to take a little mini-vacation, probably staying in Louisville at a cheap motel. We'll probably buy some Kentucky scratch-offs and go to quilt stores. And we'll also be taking Sarah out to dinner before we leave.

Pamela just completed her last scholarship essay, for Eckerd, last night. She's heartily sick of the entire applications process. Sick of high school, too, for that matter. But she'll go somewhere. Winthrop has offered her a FULL ride, and we're hopeful the other schools will come through, too, so she can choose instead of being chosen.

Posted 8:37 AM by Nicholas Holland
Hello Everyone,

Just letting you know that I'll be in Louisville/Lexington over the weekend. I have an interview with Stites and Harbison and then I'm going to spend the rest of the weekend with Sarah.

I've been interviewing with Atlanta, Birmingham, and Charlotte firms. I haven't heard much back except two of the Atlanta firms said no, but that's to be expected. I have one more Charlotte interview with Kilpatrick Stockton on campus and then I'll be hearing about "fly-backs," where they bring you to their office and grill you for a day. Oh joy!!

Nicholas

Posted 7:32 AM by Rob Holland
Congratulations, Sarah and Nicholas. Most I've ever won in a lottery is four bucks . . . .

I've posted about 30 of my better pictures from the wedding weekend on Yahoo photos

I've also sent a CD with all photos to Toey and to the Duffetts. Anybody else who would like one, e-mail me.

Posted 9:32 PM by Nicholas Holland
Just a note to let you know the scoop on the big lottery winnings.

On our way back to Durham on Sunday, I remembered about two exits from the state line (NC/SC) that Sarah had mentioned that she wanted some lottery scratch-off tickets. South Carolina only recently started their lottery as I understand it, and they make a big deal out of calling it the "Education Lottery," so as to differentiate it from the "Lottery That We Used to Think Was Going to Send Us To Hell." At any rate, we stopped at the BP and after unsuccessfully trying to buy bottle rockets (they only had the big ones instead of the annoying little one's that you can buy by the gross and annoy your neighbors with when you decide that July 5th is just as good a day to light off fireworks), I told the lady that I just wanted "any five one dollar tickets." Fortunately, she made me choose which tickets I wanted, so I got two of two types and one of another. I got back to the car and was about to leave but Sarah wanted to scratch them to see if we won anything so we could redeem them there.

Well, long story short, she began to scratch off the first one (the type of which I had only bought one) and it was a match-the-number game (what we called in middle school "get-like-me"). Her match number was 6 and she scratched off the first one that said she won 100 dollars. We were pretty happy about that, and as she scratched off the whole game area we realized they were all 6s and she had won 500 dollars. (The odd thing here is that the number was 6, so we had 666, 666, whcih suggests to me that South Carolina still thinks that lotteries are the Devil's work) In utter disbelief I told Sarah to walk back into the store and ask the cashier if that ticket said what we thought it did. When the woman realized what had happened, she was both excited and royally pissed off because she was about to play one of the same ticket when I bought that one. Sarah then proceeded to yell to the entire store that she had just won 500 dollars, which was probably the most dangerous thing she could have done given the nature of said gas station (to put int bluntly, we were the people in there who needed to win 500 dollars the least). Turns out we could redeem the ticket at the store instead of sending off and waiting and taking all the fun out of it, so Sarah walked out of the BP with 25 twenty dollar bills. I don't think they left her grasp the rest of the way home...

So the moral of the story here is that I will never buy another lottery ticket because it will only be a disappointment. The money is going to a general Spring Break fund, which is going to be nice since Sarah's father is paying for our hotel room in Sarasota and for the tickets to see the masters of disaster Elton John and Billy Joel at the Ice Palace. Now that gas and food is close to paid for it should be an actual spring break instead of the spring broke that it was going to be. I'll be the one singing "Your Song" and waving the Zippo.

On a side note: Unfortunately, only 400 of it is going towards Spring Break. Sarah was pulled over leaving the Louisville airport for going 71 in what she thought was a 65 which actually turned out to be a 55. In KY that's a 65 dollar fine and driving school or a 107 dollar fine if you skip the driving school. (She'll be at driving school) D'oh.

Posted 9:04 PM by Christopher Holland
Here are my better photos from the wedding.

Posted 8:58 PM by Christopher Holland
Amy has posted her photos from the wedding.

Posted 6:56 PM by Christopher Holland
We're home and safe. Further details to come in my own blog (link is to the left). In case you hadn't heard, Nicholas and Sarah won $500 on the way home from the wedding in a scratch-off lottery game. I wonder what they'll do with their windfall.