When you're 6'7", how high is the scaffold?

I am one day from popsicles, paint, and swimming pools. One day from digging my fingers into the dirt. I am tired of reading about Nazis and children's eyes injected with chemicals.

Studious.

Studying is sad, mostly.
(Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 'parachutist')

Summer reading list.

I've been getting excited about the end of next week, because it means reading things I want to read and watching things I want to watch, and maybe drawing, and certainly lots of photographing. Right now my list of books includes The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith), Kafka on the Shore, The English Patient, Shake Hands With the Devil, The Rape of Nanking, and Starting from San Francisco. I'm always open to suggestions.
Furthermore, I'm determined to make good of my netflix account. Right now we have Brothers of the Head, Ed Wood, The Darjeeling Limited, The Pianist (I've never seen it), The Piano (David always thinks I'm making this one up), Annie Hall, Delicatessen, CSA, Taxi Driver, There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Lars and the Real Girl, Capote, 3:10 to Yuma, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fur, and the old Funny Games.
Also, I'd like to try new recipes. Maybe a chutney.

Basically, this is me asking for your recommendations of every variety.

Pico

$20 knife + $30 cutting board = damn good pico de gallo. David and I are buying things for the new apartment. An attempt to de-college-ize.

Trash Art

David found this canvas in the trash. It's huge (Four feet by four feet), and signed on the back. I don't like it too much, so I'm thinking of painting over it. That's not awful of me is it? I may have made it look cooler than it is because I played with the contrast and saturation in the upload (just because the room in which I took the photo was so dim).

Edit: I just realized that I forgot to rotate the image, but I decided not to fix it- do paintings like these have a proper orientation anyway?

4 years = orchids

Preparacion!

Cinco de Mayo-in' it up.

Bright sun bright sand

Tiny Teacup

I apologize for making you all so very intimate with my mouth.

A break

I needed a short break from paper writing and decided to post some much-delayed pictures I took over spring break. Enjoy!

P.S. I really wish Aislinn didn't make faces like that sometime (see pic with mom)
In other news, I want Leif swinging from a post to be made into a poster.