Another weekend, another blog post. I spent a lot of time at the apartment studying for midterms and trying to do my analysis homework this weekend, but I did get out a little bit.

On Friday evening I went out to another vegetarian restaurant. I wouldn’t mention my eating habits, except for the fact that I’ve really become a fan of vegetarian restaurants lately. They always seem to come up with very creative ways to exclude meat and they provide an excellent variety of non-dairy options to attract the vegan crowd. I had walnut encrusted tofu and a soy-milk shake, both of which were excellent.

I also had a chance to see Broken Flowers (the most recent Bill Murray movie) on Friday Night. It was subtitled in Hungarian but the original audio was in glorious English. I’ve been wanting to see it for a while, but it came to Minneapolis right as I was leaving and it didn’t make it to Omaha while I was there. I find it not just a little ironic that my only chance to see an American made film in theaters is halfway around the world, but I’ll take what I can get. The film was very similar in tone to Lost in Translation, and Murray played the same wealthy but unhappy guy who is trying to find meaning in his relationships. I think Lost in Translation was the better movie, but Broken Flowers had some good scenes, and it did an excellent job of being painfully awkward, which was, well– painfully awkward – but fit the film very well.

The Budapest Autumn Festival is a contemporary arts and music festival that started over the weekend, so there are a lot of neat cultural events going on for the next few weeks. On Saturday we went to see a string quartet play the music of Schönberg and contemporary composer Arvo Pärt. The concert was held in a metro stop at midnight (after the metro closes). It was probably cooler conceptually than it was in practice, but they did a good job of transforming the underground transit stop into a temporary concert hall. The quartet was decent though not phenomenal (they may have been students), though I admit I was starting to dose off due to the lateness of the hour.

That’s all from here. Expect posting to be slow up through midterms, though I will try to prepare another Egypt post.