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That's the first photo I've taken with the iPhone. It's slightly color-adjusted -- looks like the iPhone runs really blue -- but man, I was standing among the green bean plants, watching massive bumblebees and butterflies go by, and I had to take a photo.

Good fucking god, it was a long day. One of the reasons I work for myself is so that I don't ever have to semi-permanently report to anyone I'd like to stab, and yesterday and today have definitely been Stabbing Days.

The trip to the farm really helped. I had tons to do at work, but I was the only one available for the CSA pickup, and this turned out to be for the best. I listened to Belle & Sebastian there and back (I challenge anyone to listen to The Life Pursuit and not be cheered-up), and spending half an hour picking green beans and tomatoes in the fields was very contemplative. Even the mosquito bite I got -- the little suckers just love me -- isn't all that bad.

Also, as I write this, I am down most of a martini, which is helping quite a bit.

Things we received from the CSA this week:

A quart of green beans
A quart of cherry and grape tomatoes
Seven tomatoes
Seven ears of corn
A watermelon the size of a rugby ball (and that was one of the small ones)
A red kuri squash
Four summer squash (pattypans are my new favorite squash)
Tatsoi
Scallions (HUGE)
Two leeks
Four green peppers, plus four hot peppers
Two heads of lettuce
Fourteen carrots
Two pounds of assorted potatoes
A bunch of parsley
FIVE softball-sized eggplants. Since there are only two of us splitting the share this week, I only took two, because what the fuck am I going to do with two or three eggplants that big?
Two heads of garlic

A share is supposed to last a family of four one week. We are splitting it among three couples, and I still have more vegetables than I know what to do with.