hi, my name is lauren. i live in new york, and occasionally sydney. here is a portion, a collection of my life. some of it has to do with travel. a lot of it has to do with photos. a bit of family, a bit of friends. a whole bunch of nonsense, really. drop me a line sometime, i would love to hear from you: laurenfarmer (dot) blog (at) gmail (dot) com var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-3153199-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Tumblr (3.0; @lauren)http://laurenfarmer.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7rwlyT2zj1qz6gvto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A lesson in rolling with the punches.</p> <p>This morning I woke up excited to go on a day road trip up to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.stormking.org/">Storm King Arts Center</a> in Mountainville, NY. They have a beautiful sculpture garden on 500 acres of rolling hills. I packed my camera, some snacks and planned to rent a bike for the afternoon.</p> <p>First failure of the day was riding 45 minutes on the train to pick-up my car, only to realize I left my car key at home. An hour and a half later, I was ready for a second attempt.</p> <p>It was then that I finally reached my car, which I’ve been keeping in a “secure” lot in Brooklyn, to find some bastard had stolen my driver’s side mirror.</p> <p>I shared a few not-so-friendly words with the parking lot attendant and set off to find an Autozone, hoping they’d have a mirror in stock and with an appropriate amount of damsel-in-distress flirting, could convince some fine young fellow to install it for me.</p> <p>4 Autozones, 3 random local body shops and 1 junkyard (it was worth a shot) later, I gave up and plugged “NISSAN DEALERSHIP” into my GPS. This was not after first shedding a few tears of frustration. Hey, I’m a girl, it’s what we do.</p> <p>So here I am at the Yellow Hook Grille in Bay Ridge. It’s actually quite lovely sitting outside, having a beer with a burger on the way.</p> <p>Not at all the day I had planned, but oh well. Life happens.</p>http://laurenfarmer.com/post/1015455073http://laurenfarmer.com/post/1015455073Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:55:00 +1000iPhone