arrived. one of those up early things again, and a late night before. the alarm seems to go off at 0600 instead of 0700. strange. but the sun coming in the window is absolutely brilliant. the French artist who allegedly vacated the flat the day I got to Budapest left a lot of food in the fridge, although I didn’t discover the fridge itself until the last day. it was sitting on the balcony. it was curious to find the kitchen without a fridge, and I assumed it was something about Eastern monetary problems or something. duh. ate the boiled eggs and pastrami-like stick for breakfast before taking the key up to the C3 office and bus – to – Metro – to – EuroCity train Liszt Ferenc (taken that before!) to Linz. in a stupor of half-sleep. tram to Ars Electronica center, Christa is there and not feeling well, I encourage her to go home and rest before meeting Patrice, Ravi and I for dinner later. Ravi is doing a lecture this week as part of the Intertwinedness series, Patrice is in town working on the Festival for the fall. brief meeting with Gerfried about some possible ideas for the Open-X networking scene at the Ars Festival this year. wondering about different paradigms with networking, and in the midst, when asked about a possible proposal/idea, I realize that the concept of a student-based networking situation that brings students together in a variety of places would be a perfect compliment to the Open-X concept. at least the Open-X would be a good launching venue for the whole thing. could make use of the facilities, and the idea of bringing with me some hard-core students from Tornio, Lahti, and Kiel would be great!