A sad day in Zagreb.

Well, the city was kind of down today. In Croatian, this month is named Listopad, which translates into basically "Leaffall." And right on cue, yesterday morning was the first day when the streets began to fill with falling leaves. Then, today we got a torrential rain shower, but not one of those summer showers that passes and the sun comes out and it warms up again. Nope, this was a cold rain, and even after it passed, it stayed cool for the rest of the day. So, this was that day that comes at some point every year when everyone realizes summer is really over and it's time to get ready to stop eating and drinking outside.

For me though, not so bad a day. I can now actually check books out of the City Library and take them back to my lodgings. So, I actually got to use the digital camera and tripod to copy a book today.

Now, for all of you that are Balkan news junkies, here is the latest on the Bosnian elections from Zagreb. Two days in a row that Bosnian politics has been top headline in Večernji list. Today it was Zagreb is not your capital city which was a statement that the leader of the Croatian government and an HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) party member made to the Bosnian Croats. That was in response (or in anticipation of, I'm not really sure) a statement by the HDZ in Bosnia that they don't recognize Komsic as the "Croatian president" of Bosnia. This has the potential to get sticky because if the HDZ can somehow prove that Komsic didn't actually get the highest number of Croatian votes for the presidency, then it could spark a constitutional crisis. Now, I don't think that there is any chance, especially with the way the system is rigged in Bosnia, that Komsic won't take office, but the last time something like this happened (when the HDZ won the largest number of Croatian seats in the parliament, and were denied seats in the government) the HDZ managed to create quite a mess, including a mutiny of the Croatian part of the Federal Army. So, we will see what the future holds.