i'm having a problem keeping my coordinate systems intact.

i would like to push the current system into the stack, translate center to my location of interest, rotate, print some text, then pop the previous coordinate system.

this code isn't working correctly as is:

   pushMatrix();
   Vertex v = model.getVertex(i);
   translate(v.vx, v.vy, v.vz);
<insert rotations, etc>
   fill(0);
   textFont(font, 20);
   text(i+" little vertex");
   popMatrix();


however this code does, except I cannot rotate or otherwise modify the positon of the text other than to put it in the correct location

   Vertex v = model.getVertex(i);
   fill(0);
   textFont(font, 20);
   text(i+" little vertex", v.vx, v.vy, v.vz);