For every tiger that ever there was Will gather there for certain, because Today's the day the RIT Staff have their picnic

Today was the 16th annual RIT Staff Appreciation Day & Community Picnic! And it couldn't have fallen on a more beautiful day. 

Awwwww yeah: blue skies, ice cream, and gorgeous cars. Does it get any better??

The picnic includes a classic car show, rides in a vintage taxi (see above; though this was more of a heist than a ride, I even set off some kind of alarm or something....oops), mini golf, segway rides, info tables (which included my Staff Council brochure, which looks even better on paper might I add), a photo booth, and of course: FREE LUNCH! YES! 

This was my second year working the picnic (oh yeah, while I was away on vacation the Staff Council election results came in and I have been elected to another term - thank you, thank you, hold your applause), and this year I signed up for two shifts: handing out tickets redeemable for ice cream at a buffet line from 12-1, and crowd control at the photo booth from 1-2:30. So I made sure to get to the picnic early (around 11:15) so that I could eat before getting down to business. Catered by Brick City, there was salad, pasta salad, hot dogs (and hot sauce!), salt potatoes, roast chicken, and cooooookies.

Beating the crowds for first pick at the noms, that's how I roll

My day life was made complete when Ritchie came by and got his picture taken with me. I totally snuzzled in there.
(For the record, I have no idea who was in that suit, and no one would tell me.)

I had a great time handing out tickets at the buffet line, though I was surprised how many people said no to ice cream! What! I've decided this was the best job of all because I got to say hello to many of my favorites from around campus who came through the buffet lines. Though, on second thought, handing out the actual ice cream may have been even better, since there was only one line for that and I would have gotten to see EVERYBODY (except those spoil sports who didn't even want ice cream....)

1 o'clock rolled around and it was time for me to change shifts, which worked out well because the lines for food really started to dwindle around that time. I moved on to performing "crowd control" for the photo booth, though you can hardly call it that since the line never got more than 2 groups long. By the time half an hour passed, pretty much everyone was gone from the picnic, so I decided to give the photo booth a shot - but everyone I knew was long gone along with everyone else, so I was left to go in there all by my awkward lonesome. Therefore I decided that my photo strip needed to tell some kind of story, to make up for the fact that I was in there by myself. My "story" didn't really work - the first attempt was a miserable failure and the second didn't really make sense - and overall I ended up making the photos even MORE awkward than if I had gone in there taking myself seriously. So I went in there one last time and defaulted to a little good ol' fashioned school spirit.

Awkward photo booth attempts 1, 2, and 3.
1 and 2 mean to show a lonely bethy looking over her shoulder to see a lonely ritchie looking up at her (Brady Bunch style). The two are delighted to find each other in such a lonely photo booth, and decide to take a happy picture together.
For #3 I just spelled out RIT in ASL and then made a heart.
Overall, my favorite picture of all is the one of just a blank curtain. That's the money shot right there.

Overall, it was super fun and a really great day - around 2,000 people showed up! You can view a bunch of pictures from today's picnic here, and read some updates about the day in 140 characters or less on the RIT Staff Council twitter.