thanks and update

to everyone who send me emails! they were awesome and appreciated. keep em coming please...

yesterday i hiked a volcano and then went swimming in some sulfur laced hot springs and then hiked up about 600 steps that really led nowhere worth all that work and sweat, and then went wine tasting and then drank some beers and watched the Greece/ Spain game and went to bed and dreamt about newspapers stacking up on my stoop...

yesterday i also got on the wrong bus and got gaffled for 2.50 by the bus driver and then dead sprinted about a mile back (and got bloody feet, no socks, Vans shoes = bloody feet a la Curt Schilling...only mine were for real) to where i boarded the wrong bus in the first place and caught the correct bus JUST (and i mean that) as he was pulling out...yesterday i went off on a greek bus driver, i called him a lot of names including "dickhead" "motherfucker" "asshole" and finally "bra" as in "thanks a lot bra..." it's weird but i can feel old asshole Johnny coming back, maybe this is a good thing while i'm in greece, maybe it's not, but i'm feeling pretty agro lately...i hope i can shed that skin before i head back to the States (i hate when people call "them" "the states" but i feel like a pilgrim calling "it" "America"), i've been successfully reformed for a couple years now, i'd hate to regress...

yesterday i met a woman with a raspy voice, and i was telling Erin this, but isn't it weird how a raspy voice on a girl can either be hella sexy or hella gross? in this chick's case it was definitely the latter...like sea-salt on an open would...and then i actually heard her say, frustrated "doesn't anyone around here speak english?!!!!" she was from NYC...

i'm going to head to Paros tomorrow afternoon, the symposium starts in a couple days and i think i've seen all that Santorini has to offer (that's actually not true at all but for my budget it is)...hopefully i'll be able to hook up with Susan G. and Steve D. and get "opa"...

i haven't tried any more characters yet...my accents are pretty good but not that good (i can do a mean cockney, i sound like Mike Skinner, i can do a decent Aussie but i sound like a cartoon character, i can do a really good Greek-speaking-English dialect). i need to think of another American character. but then it's also good to know your geography when you're playing a character, and i pretty much only know the Bay Area, not sure how interesting it would be to play a construction worker named Tommy-boy from Antioch...i mean, it might be.

oh and, i've been going commando (free balling) for the last 2 weeks...it's really been an eye opener...Caty Dutchface would be proud, my brother is proud.