Today I am a Fountain Pen

Yesterday Anna's first California ID arrived in the mail. Today I got mine: I purchased my first pair of sandals, real honest-to-god Birkenstocks. It felt like my bar mitzvah, like I've finally become a northern Californian. Plus I've cast my lot with the Bay Area folks rather than the fucking yuppie Sacramentans. Davis, of course, is really a Bay Area town cut out of the bay and dropped down in the middle of rice paddies on the edge to the state capital. So there we go. I miss New York like crazy, but alas. Now I'll I need is a job in San Francisco and we'll be all set.