50-60 k thoughts

Allegedly we have 50-60 thousand thoughts a day, most of them the same as yesterday and the day before. I wonder how many new thoughts I have a day? And does it count if I read about something new or it has to occur to me? I am bored recently a lot. Could be, because I get a whole lot less new impressions in Budapest than I used to in New York.

The other day I talked to a young couple at our joint meeting with the Biochemistry Department at a pub on the Pest side. The guy was 26 and just flanked his neurobiology exam, the girl was 20 and quite beautiful. They could not fathom how I could have left New York for the sake of Budapest. I told them New York was very stressful in the end. And Budapest? Is not it, too? I said no. It is only depressing. At which we had a hearty laugh.