General Catching Up

I'm going to go ahead and skip the re-caps of my trips and just sum up the last week or so. There are lots of details I don't want to forget. Especially details about Vienna and how I got to live here. The homeless people and drug addicts in Karlsplatz that have blue mouths from the medicine they take (and sometimes apparently start walking backwards when you pass by...). Der Mann and Stöck with their buttery early morning pastry smells. Waking up to blue light because my curtains are rather thin and filter light that way, and the chandelier i would look at every morning. How Eva says guten morgen when i walk in for breakfast, and when i am in a rush she gives me to kisses on the cheek and a hug, asking me to stop being gone so long. The softness on the inside of a semmel roll and the perfect balance of crunch to it, especially when it is smothered in rahm cheese. the marble tables at the institute where we would study, frau Weißgarber saying NA GUT all the time, professor Krolls jokes. the blue oxidized rooftops to Karlskirche and the Hoffburg. The bell that rings when the Straßenbahn is driving by and the man who announces the stations on the u-bahn. Umsteigen zu der linien... anyway, enough of that. this past week has been crazy chaotic. we have been going to museums and on tours. the coolest one i think was the Josephinium, which was opened by Joseph II to improve the medical system in Vienna. There was an area where the put the people who were insane, not to lock them up but to research and help them. they had all these skeletons and mutated lungs and things. I thought it was so interesting. unfortunately you were not allowed to take photos. this is something EVERYONE MUST DO when they are in austria. the tours are difficult to book though, they're only three times a week for about three hours.
last night was our last opera. it was the masked ball by Verdi. the ending was so dramatic and sad, and the woman next to me was so nice. she rubbed my back and encouraged me to lean over the edge to get a better look, that i would not bother her. so kind. then john, rebekah, and i, post-underground-photoshoot went to get a glamorous thanksgiving dinner at macdo, and watch an episode of gossip girl for old times sake. then i sort of lost it for a little bit and said crazy things i didn't really mean, simply because chuck was being such a good boyfriend and sometimes i get crazy about how annoying guys are. so yeah. i just do what i do. then rebekah brought up budapest which really threw me over the edge because i genuinely had really wanted to go and it made me really sad to think about just staying while everyone else was having fun.
also yesterday we went to the war museum. that is another thing everyone should go to. built by Franz Joseph, who is awesome, to document battles lost and won.
wednesday night was way fun. me and andres and john studied at daniels house. when the homework was finished i decided that all of the boys had the emotional range of a teaspoon. daniel said making fun of people built up your self-esteem, so even if you didn't have a heart, your self esteem felt good from making fun of people. they continued to make fun of me and claimed they "felt so good because their self-esteem was so high." only thing to do was to pin daniel down and give him hand turkeys. his stomach was so red. a lot of laughter ensued.
today is a day of work. well, supposedly. i'm supposed to be studying for finals but all thats happening is i'm sitting in the austro-american institute, not doing homework, surrounded by food from spar, and uploading photos onto facebook. i'm ridiculous.