SVong-Along

Picnic Day (usually around 4/20), is a day to celebrate Davis. It's one of the biggest events of the year in this small college town, and is essentially when college students wander around campus and Downtown Davis drunk or high or both. As a law student on the semester system, picnic day was usually close to finals, but I gave up trying  took picnic day as a study break opportunity to see some sunlight and check out campus with my non-gunner friends. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG (circa 2014) FF to 2018: I didn't really plan on going to picnic day as an alum, but this year Josey flew up to NorCal (mostly for Napa, partly to visit me) and Davis was the perfect meeting spot since she was at a friend's in the East Bay and I'm up in Sac. After surprisingly terrible traffic, I picked up Josey from the Amtrak station, and being too lazy to walk 8+ blocks to campus I decided to drive us to the law school. Josey wanted to get in the law school and see if people were studyin...

Government work is by no means glamorous, but I do try to make the most of the few perks I have being a state worker. One of the best perks is getting early access to "Ag Day." Ag (short for agriculture) Day, is a day sponsored by the California Department of Food and Agriculture  where the agriculture community showcases the "bounty of crops and commodities produced in our state" (aka free crap galore!) It was literally my favorite day of work last year, where my coworkers and I went outside and went from booth to booth getting food samples such as tri-tip sandwiches and little bottles of chocolate milk, reusable bags, and fun knick-knacks such as a cow squeeze toy that decreases stress. 2017 haul: I almost forgot about the raisins- nature's candy!  Betsy is still on my desk today~ (though has mostly been used as a chew toy for Sunny Dodd) This year it rained, but that did not deter me from fulfilling my inner-Asian destiny to collect as much ...