Desk

I used, for the first time today, the desk that I have been assigned at the IAA to be able to spend some more time here every week.

It was a request/requirement from the director —you should spend at least one day a week here—, and what can you say?. That meeting with the director was a couple of months ago, but due to the dire space problems they have, before they can move to the new building, they did not find a desk for me until last week. My idea is to come here on Tuesdays, which is also the day that we have, usually every other week, the Star Formation group meeting. Today, I also had a meeting with a french visitor about modelling of the chemistry and it was very convenient to have a desk where I could leave my laptop and my bag. That's one advantage.

My desk's office is full of PhD students, but I am next to the window, in direct view to the Taipei 101. It is another step in my process of integration in the institute's affairs. In any case, it remains to be seen if I will come every week or not, because I feel very comfortable in my other office... and one must fight for his independence.