Pirates and eggplant

[abka]

We had a fairly nice weekend. Friday night Denis worked (surprise, surprise), but Emma and I went and saw Pirates of the Carribean (on Andrew's recommendation). It was a fabulous pirate movie, I really enjoyed it. We even sat through the credits for the final monkey scene. Saturday we both worked and then I went to a WCMA opening for Nicole Cohen's "Ma Vie en Rose". The opening was nice, but I didn't stay too long. The show looks great! Sunday we were going to work, but decided we needed a day off so just hung out at home. We made eggplant parmagana together which was more of a production than I originally planned. I started out cooking myself, but had to recruit Denis and he ended up doing most of the actual cooking while I washed a mountain of dishes. It took a while, but the result was yummy. Then he even spent time with me while I worked on my Croatian (I'm a little behind). It helps tremendously to hear someone pronounce the words correctly. It was so nice to study together (ok I was studying, he was teaching/reading/repeating). Unfortuantely another weeked spent procrastinating about Fulbright/grad. school stuff (although Croatian should count). I'm going to at least start contacting more people this week.

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I think I oversimplified that too much, because the Croatian forces ended up being loyal to the Austrian emperor; they just didn't like the Hungarians, and apparently for some good reasons. Austria and Hungary were apparently two different Kingdoms, but whose separate crowns were worn by the same hereditary monarch. Although apparently in Hungary he only got to be a King and not an Emperor, which I think is funny. Croatia if I understand correctly had been annexed to Hungary and was therefore part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by dint of belonging to Hungary, and was not part of Austria proper. Except that much/some of Croatian land was directly controlled by the Emperor, was largely socialized, and was used as an intense military frontier to keep out the Turks.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a very confusing place. Please feel free to untangle my confuddled brain.