getting settled at CERN

Feeling extremely clever, Kenny₂, Chan, Shannon, and I biked out this afternoon to S:t Genis in search of the mythical grocery store there. Silly us, it turns out that the entire country (by which I mean Switzerland and France) suffers from the UPS Paradox (c.f. Kuczenski, 1998. The UPS Paradox is the observation that UPS only delivers packages during business hours and requires that you're home in order to receive a package, ergo you will never be home to receive a package; thus it must be that no packages are delivered). Not only is the grocery store closed from noon to 2:30pm, but it seems that even the cafes and restaurants close for the lunch! Geeze. The Swedes were right.

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1. jesus, we just ran up a restaurant tab of way over a thousand bucks. to where exactly do I address this big thank-you card I've written up to the American taxpayer? anyway, thanks guys! how does northeastern university get all this money? I don't understand. 2. some of the summer students are pretty cute. 3. i had a dream that i was institutionalized and i liked it quite a lot.