As expected

The moment I was handed the free toy that came with the niece's popcorn meal, I knew who it would end up with. The brother didn't prove me wrong as he put together his new Lego toy as soon as he noticed it.

Gaining new respect for cashiers

I took my first stab at self-scanning yesterday. After registration, I was asked whether I knew how to operate the handheld scanner and since the brother had self-scanned when we did the groceries two weeks ago, I said yes. As it turns out, I didn't.

I started by scanning something by mistake and then sheepishly had to ask for help with deleting it. Afterwards, I tried to scan three items with no success until I realized that I was supposed to scan the bar codes on the items themselves and not the ones posted on the shelves --- something I should have already known after the shopping trip with the brother.

The rest of my little adventure went quite smoothly. I liked having a running total and bagged the items as I went, which was one important lesson I'd learned from the previous visit.

Had oodles of trouble scanning my final purchase, a bag of honey roasted nuts, and had to try to move the nuts around the bag to flatten the area with the bar code, but I persevered.

[Photo taken at 1839 yesterday.]

Why hello neighbor!

I find this row of 7 houses on campus --- as far as I know, the only on-campus housing --- oddly fascinating. It must be so great to do without the morning commute. Of course, I'm only assuming that the residents work at Karolinska. Who knows, maybe they just wanted to live next door to Smittskyddsinstitutet (Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control).

To be fair...

There was some eye-catching tile art by the entrance of the Rockefeller lecture hall.

As an added bonus, it finally got me to use the panorama function!

Great or dashed?

When I saw the room assignment for this morning, my interest was piqued.

The first thing I noticed upon arriving was this sign. I would have thought the budget for a lecture hall called "Rockefeller" would also have covered the cost of a spiffy sign.

How fitting that the first lecture for today was on the subject of cognition and partly dealt with expectations.