eating, breathing, sleeping

right now i think anyone reading this would chastise me for it being almost 5:30 and me not having left the apartment all day. but those days happen too.  i've been building a model for my sculpture class, and am pretty sure it will end up looking something like a middle school diorama.  

anyways, i thought i'd post a few random photos of recent events:
This is at the Pantheon, which is a basilica I think for St Genevieve, the patron saint of paris.  The thing in the middle is Foucault's Pendulum, which tells the time as the pendulum swings according to the rotation of the earth.  I still don't fully understand it, but it's pretty neat.
These guys are just visible in the background of that last picture.  I'm not sure who they're supposed to be, but I admire their mustaches.
Also, Annie and I have been trying to break out of our cheese and bread/ pasta with pesto habits and last night whipped up some delicious asparagus mushroom risotto and banana fried tofu (oh the comforts of home).  Good food seems to make everything better.

oh, things keep going.  i have to admit there are multiple countdowns that we're keeping track of here. weeks until class is over. until parents visit. until we're halfway.  it's good to set goals, but difficult to think of the long term.  we have also learned that if you want to fly to iceland for the weekend, you really need to plan it more than a week in advance.

i am speeding through reading books, so if anyone has suggestions for me to track down, they'd be appreciated. 

it is somewhat frightening to have so much extra time and not quite the equivalent amount of motivation to utilize it.  starting new projects and plans and explorations are difficult to self-instigate, but i know that's it's something i have to learn.  lots and lots of drawings that should be made, since that seems to be the main opportunity here.  a little bit every day.  My thoughts are deteriorating right now, so I'll just leave off with one last thing: 

glitter banana stalagmites.