The office of a tenure track assistant professor

Sitting on my bed typing this, my apartment is in disarray. The movers come tomorrow, and everything we are taking with us to Denmark (aside from our suitcases) is packed into 22 small cartons, 9 plastic tubs, and 1 garment case. Books, stationery, clothes, a few toys, some mementos, coffee equipment, cast irons and Indian stainless steel and brass kitchenware. This is 20 years (13 for Aditi) of stuff we have accumulated in North America that we will take when we go. Reflecting on what w leave behind, I notice furniture, beds, linens, clothes, toys, almost everything in the kitchen, so many electronic devices and appliances and gadgets, so very many plants and ceramics. I remember that I left my car behind in Atlanta, 7 years ago.

Headed to Copenhagen next Friday with Lara. Aditi will follow in a few weeks after getting in some more fieldwork. We have an apartment there already, and Lara and I will feather the nest in anticipation. I'd like to explore the city with her, maybe take a short trip somewhere in Europe. Get us settled, bank accounts, health cards, bicycles, etc. And on August 1st, I officially start at CBS. I've been to the Digi building before, during my flyout, and I had a chance to explore campus last summer during AOM. But I'm so looking forward to walking around. I expect to get an office assigned in August but I suspect I'll be making many stops to campus well before that. I cannot wait to furnish it though much will wait until our movers' shipment arrives.  I cannot explain why the office and the campus is so important. It calls me. I've wanted this for so long.