i've had a really nice last 2 days. Sunday was wonderful. I woke up, wrote jess a good email, put clothes on to wash, worked out (which i am currently sore from. sweet), put more clothes on (and finished washing EVERYthing), went out and ate a bowl of cheese/veggie soup that comes in a giant roll, came back, hung up all my clothes to dry, posted some pictures, and then watched the movie Metropolis (not too shabby). It was the most relaxing day i can remember (and believe me, that's saying A LOT considering my recent schedule). yeah, so good day. and a good message from my QT.

I am so diggin' this Saves the Day acoustic music. "hold" and "freakish" are really just at the top of my list lately. particularly "hold". i love the way the chords sound on that guitar. i wanna learn guitar. i'll never have this much free time in my life ever again, so i have to make the most of it (and use it all up!).

i went and played piano today (finally). the piano kind of sucks, but as long as I'm able to make music with my hands, i'm thrilled. it's funny, i was playing through a bunch of stuff and after i played through that song from "The Truman Show" this guy came up to me (and after telling him "nem beszelek magyural") and asked me what that song was. he was apparently very intrigued by it. so i tried to explain thats it not really a "song" so to speak, but that he could find it on the soundtrack and stuff. kind of neat. when i went in to play (the piano is just i this hall right next to a big lounge room) there were a bunch a people in there talking and stuff and it was fairly noisy so i didnt mind playing, but once i began playing it sort of quieted down and whenever i'd stop it was really quiet so i had to begin playing again as soon as i could! but i played well, so that was good. and no one told me to shut up, so that was good too.

and i went to see a movie tonight...again! it's too cheap NOT to go. what else am i going to do on a monday night? (nothing) anyway, i saw Matchstick Men with Nick Cage and Sam Rockwell. I really liked it! i thought it was a pretty good movie! and Cage did a great job acting. he has done such a good job on his last few movies. i've been thoroughly impressed. and then i had my usual large popcorn and large coke for dinner. good stuff. OH. but i found out that they have assigned seating in the freakin theater! how communist is that?? so no matter how early i get there, i'm still going to get a random seat. i could be the last person to arrive and get the seat right in the middle. (these people make me wanna puke.) and since about 80% of the people dont arrive until the movie is just beginning (lazy europeans!) that's a very probably thing. These people have no sense of capitalism. The service in restaurants is the worst. no one cares about the customer. you dont tip much here . . . because no one earns it! if i fail at engineering, plan B is to come to hungary and open up a Mexican food restaurant with REAL service and FREE refills. these people wouldnt even know what to do with it. this would be such a radical concept here that most people would probably reject it. unbelievable. no one even cares. if you want something in a food place, YOU have to flag someone down or grab them or yell at them and then make your request because if you wait for them, you will never (i really do mean never) leave the establishment. this (so far) has been my biggest complaint with europe.

thats all for now from the josh think tank.

(man those pumas rule)