1 Month to Go, and Poo!

I have been here for a little over 3 months now, and I am sooo ready to go home. As fulfilling and culturally enriching (or any other feel good terms you can think of) as this experience has been I just miss the good ol' U.S. of A. I miss being able to go get a giant grease ball, what we know as burgers in the U.S., at any freaking time of the night. Mmm MEAT! I really miss my mother's cooking too. I really could go for some rice and kimchee right about now. I need to replenish my ninja skills after all. I would kill for some homogenized, pastuerized milk too. In general I just miss the over processed, hormone pumped food they have in the United States. Don't get me wrong, I love traveling as much as the next person, I am getting tired of eating the food over here and the resulting rager stomach aches that I get about once a week. That includes all of the symptoms which come along with that. Perhaps a little too much information? Plus I am getting tired of going to stores that specialize in 300 different color felt fabrics. Okay so that's a gross exaggeration, but the point is the same. I just want to be able to go to a Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or a Sam's Club and buy a 40 pack of socks, a couple of movies, a video game, a bushel of bananas, 4 or 5 books, a refridgerator with a television in it, and a Snickers, no, a Twix bar to top off the amazing evening that will follow. (What I do in my own time with cows errr... things is my own business.) I just want to go to one store and get most of what I need.

Anyway, I changed my flight so that I get in late on the 17th. As for traveling around Europe, well funds are low and it is crunch time around here. I have finals, projects, and essays for school. Plus I am trying to work on some digital art so that I can add some morsel of talent to the online resume I am trying to create. Plus I still need to process wedding photos I took before I left. So Croatia will have to wait. My roommate and I still plan on visiting Prague, but we have pushed that excursion back to early December.

Oh wait... I want to share what I saw with you a few days ago. As I was walking up from the subway station (they call it a metro here) I saw an old homeless lady evacuating, ummm..., everything in front of everyone. What I am trying to illustrate here, aside from the grizzly scene that has been seared into my memory, is that this are the things I notice now. I rarely notice the various beautiful monuments and natural wonders around Budapest but the filth instead. I just want to come home now so that I can be sheltered by Americana.

Go Bears!, 9-0, Charles