On a day which I dubbed suitable for a couple “quick errands,” it all started with a quotidian morning at the bureaucratic and meeting-laden wonderland that is the world’s premiere high energy laboratory:

08:00 – Snooze. Hard.
09:30 – Wake, prepare, bike to CERN. Coffee. To the Users’ Office!
09:55 – Users’ Office lines are my 2nd favorite.
10:55 – Users’ Office experience complete, for now…
11:05 – Arrive at Financial Office after minor confusion navigating Buidlings 3,4, and 58.
11:07 – Walk ashamedly away from Financial Office. Pick-up for reimbursement: the Post Office (?).
11:10 – Post Office lines are my favorite.
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11:16 – Awkwardly ask Mr. Post Office for my money, struggle to verify my identity.
11:20 – Leave Post Office, rejected.  Reimbursements need 24 hrs to be processed.
11:30 – European lunch (of course).
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13:30 – Return to Users’ Office with the morning’s missing documents.
13:52 – Users’ Office Round 2 complete.
14:29 – Read e-mail from Users’ Office; understand vacuum of U.O. internal communication.
14:31 – Head to Users’ Office for Round 3…
15:00 – Group meeting.
16:42 – Much-needed coffee.
17:00 – Finally, time for work.

Somehow, they pay me to do physics.  I have to respect a place that can throw time into a hole so deftly.