Der Schweiz Ist Sehr Gut.

Taking a moment out of my whirlwind morning to pen a quick post, you might have noticed my Rome post disappeared. Tricked you, didn’t I? It was unintentional of course, but I nevertheless had an amazing time in Switzerland last week AND as a bonus, got to go home on the way back. When I have more time, I will–of course–post some pictures and talk about my trip at some length.

In the meantime, the Schweinegrippe has taken the U.S. by storm (that’s Swine Flu in German, in case you couldn’t parse it), and the Notre Dame plot scandal has thickened. The ever fearful mess of our would-be-Socialist-except-it’s-not-even-that government only seems to be growing and to top it off, I have a midterm on Wednesday and a test tomorrow–neither of which I feel the slightest bit ready for.

Welcome back to the United States of America. I’d like to explicate on some or all of those themes, but as the rat race of my American life would have it; I hardly have the time to think for pleasure, much less to set those thoughts down on the Internet for public scrutiny. So my takeaway for you (to borrow from American businessspeak), or my point with this trifle of a post? Reflect on the fact that in Switzerland everything closes on Sunday. Everything. And any other day of the week, everything still shuts down no later than eight p.m. (And starts no earlier than ten a.m.)