Yes, I'm a lazy bum . . .

But there are reasons, though i admit they may not be good ones. First, my camera broke thus no pictures and i like pictures. i was holding out in hope people might post new ones, i was sadly mistaken. But anyways, the the last week and a half have been pretty solid. Last weekend we went on a trip to southern bohemia. One of our history professors acted as our guide (and our film prof tagged along) to the royal towns of southern bohemia. We stayed in a city which, in its entirely, has been placed on the UNESCO world heritage list, and was definitely worthy of such a distinction with small winding streets and a huge palace on a hill. The town was cool, saw a modern art museum as well (which featured an artists that i actually really liked, go figure) and we headed back to prague on saturday. On the way back we had one of the most interesting experiences of the trip. We stopped to visit a catholic pilgrimage site. Our professor is jewish, but very knowledgeable and unbiased in presenting christian sites, the local priest apparently had a differing opinion. They got into a heated argument, the priest saying he has an exclusive claim to truth with our film prof retorted saying he was sounding a lot like a communist. Possible anti-semitic comments followed and our extremely humble, mind mannered, no more than 140 pound professor came within an ounce of restraint of coming to blows with the priest. Aside from being incredibly amusing with our profs unintentionally funny comments it was really interesting to see this certainly pre-vatican II, seemingly pre-reformation priest in action . . . it made me appreciate more the need for reform in the church and frankly to apologize on behalf of my entire religion to my professor. We got back and then chilled for the rest of the day. The week was fun. 80's night at a dance club called Nebe, made tuesday night most enjoyable as i knew the words to every song save one. Thursday night we went to see Batman Begins (not returns as i had previously mispoken) on an IMAX screen which was pretty friggen awesome . . . i really wish all the other batman movies hadnt be made (and, for the most part, blown) already. Friday we went to the prague castle (more to come later) and that night i went and procured my copy of harry potter and the half blood prince (which was finished today, most enjoyable). Saturday morning the whole group departed for southern moravia. After learning some history and stopping at a few small towns then arrived at our destination for the night. Our prof led a few of us on a hike up a hill on the edge of town with a cool church on the top. The view was awesome, we could see beautiful countryside, the town as well as the austrian border that was merely a mile away. That night we had a wine tasting (during which i ate some lovely cheeses) and had fun with drunk people. The next morning we went through some amazing caves, saw an "abyss" like the one in Garden State and went on a boat ride on an underground river. Then we ate and headed back to Prague, overall i was most impressed with southern moravia. That brings us to another new segment. The "things that are weird in prague" segment turned out to be a bust as the kfc tacos were surprisingly good, so i introduce to you . . .

Historical practices that should be resurrected in the modern era: defenestration.

So, as i mentioned earlier i went to the prague castle on friday and viewed the site of the second defenestration of prague that started the 30 years war. For those of you who are not familiar with this term, it refers to throwing a person out of a window. What could be cooler to do to stupid people? Someone ticks you off, heave them out a window! Debbie and i agreed that the first target of this new policy should be that schmuck in engineering department who doesnt believe in the holocaust, i could think of few things better that tossing him out a one of tech's fourth story windows . . . hopefully onto a pile of rocks.

I hope you are all doing well and please send me an email or skype me if you wanna talk, i miss y'all quite a bit.