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a day in the life...

to set the scene:
lf and friends have been up all night working on a deadline. at an obscenely early hour and with about three hours of sleep lf stumbles out of the hotel to move her car from a metered spot to a garage suggested by hotel personnel. after following the sign in the garage that reads "please pull forward" lf pulls forward and into a spot behind a parked truck. she is wondering where the parking attendant is when suddenly the reverse lights on the truck in front of her light up and the truck starts backing up (seemingly in slow motion). lf tries frantically to hit her horn to alert the driver but motor skills are lacking at this early hour and AFTER the truck hits her car her hand finally makes contact with the horn. it sounds sort of like this.

*CRASH!*BEEP!*

guy in truck (gets out of truck and looks angrily at lf): shit!
lf: wtf! you hit MY car!
guy in truck: oh yea. well there's no visible damage. it's $45 to park your car for the day.

garden photography

I brought my camera out to the garden with the best of intentions. I was going to take pictures of my plants and then write interesting blog posts about them. When I got back and uploaded my photos, I realized the sad truth: my plants are not very photogenic. Instead, I had taken pictures mostly of other people's plants.

There are a couple of reasons why my garden is not very exciting to look at. The square foot gardening/intensive gardening method means that all my plants are rammed together, so it's hard to get a clean shot of one plant without trampling on another plant. I also don't have very many flowers, and those took up the bulk of my shots too. The final reason is probably that my plants are all still really small. The macro on my camera is not that great and I'm not sure how exciting it is to look at puny vine #2 and compare it to sprout #3. Whooo.

Anyhow, here is a volunteer tomato plant that grew in an untended planter box. I rescued it and it's now probably the largest tomato plant I have. The leaves are huge and the stem is thicker than a size 15 knitting needle. As you can see, though, the tomatoes are still rather small. Oh well.

low pressure sales

grandma: do you have a boyfriend now?
lf: no, not right now
grandma: maybe you can find a nice one... please?
lf: i'll try grandma
grandma: please try hard