Auf wiedersehen to Germany
In an eventful confluence of endings, this past week involved concluding my three month fellowship at CAIS, keynoting a conference at Bochum's local university, cleaning out my apartment, and biding farewell to a footloose mother that has been variably crashing on my couch ( ok, it is I who has been sleeping on the couch ) while she day trips around Germany. Lots of goodbyes. Lots of deadlines. More than a little bit of stress. More than a little bit of overly sincere declarations of respect and friendship with vows to meet again. A surprise bit of office karaoke, as icing on the cake. I'm now on an ICE train to Hamburg, and then on to Copenhagen. I'll linger briefly in Denmark for jazz, art, and coffee dates with interesting colleagues, before going on to Stockholm to take up another fellowship for the month of April with Digital Futures. This one will be briefer and less structured than my time with CAIS, and I'm looking forward to the change of pace. I ended up worki...