a long weekend, a witty vaction 29 October, 2005

So this is a four-day weekend–kedd [Tuesday] is Nov 1, All Saints’ Day, and tuesday national holidays in hungary are celebrated by moving everything that was supposed to happen on hetfo [monday] to the following szombat [saturday]. This works with mixed success, as everyone takes advantage of the four days this weekend, but then most [...]

oh, of course! now things are like college 25 October, 2005

Even though i’m nine time zones away from school and in the heart of central europe, classic bits of the college experience have somehow intruded on the term. The first of which is midterms (i have one tomorrow and one thursday). The problem i have with these midterms has little to do with their existence [...]

a note about the food 21 October, 2005

So this may or may not be called “postmodern” of me, but I think I’m going to abandon any and all pretense and this being an accurate (in the temporal or complete sense, although I promise everything I write will be, to the best of my knowledge, true) description of what’s happened to me. Think [...]

Since it’s a study abroad program, I thought I’d write about studying for once 20 October, 2005

With every passing semester, it seems like it takes me longer and longer to feel like school is going on and I need to take classes and things seriously. Things still haven’t gotten to the point where I’m hitting midterms without feeling like I’m in school, but any hopes that taking a “vacation” and studying [...]

I’ve been doing some thinking… 19 October, 2005

… maybe as a way of trying to break out of the math that we all keep doing every day for hours on end, or maybe because you can stop taking history classes, but you can never stop taking history. Or at least something like that–that little piece of prose took a good ten minutes [...]

a weekend trip to hungary’s biggest summer resort 10 October, 2005

… would’ve been really cool and action-packed, had we actually gone in the summer. Unfortunately, as I conveniently forgot after two straight octobers in SoCal, there’s this season following summer that’s called “autumn” or “fall,” and 90% of everything that caters to summer tourists is, well, closed. That was only really an obstacle, though, when [...]