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Maybe there are some things you could stash in your locker each evening, which would be fast enough to unfurl at a flex space in the morning?

Piece of fabric to lay on the desk, couple of photos to stick up or prop, some item you find soothing to look at or touch. Tiny jar containing something you like to smell. Pieces of stiff card hinged together with tape to make a folding standup "wall" to prop on the desk - stick things you like to it then just fold it up for your locker each evening.

I'd be trying to join you for the Lapsang Souchong. Love the stuff. Can understand why the taste would not be for everyone, but sort of assumed that the smell of campfire was very popular. Anyhow, if it isn't specifically the smoky flavour that draws you to it, there is unsmoked Lapsang Souchong - or rather, made without using pine needles as fuel when roasting the leaves, but you'd probably have to go to an online specialist to find the stuff. Story goes that the smoky stuff came about after a batch got messed up in production, and that as nobody could afford to sell at a discount it was sold at full price all the way down to the end customers, with all of it going for export, but that enough people came looking for more of it that the tea producers ended up making it that way specially for export to the West. There are other smoky teas which aren't really exported, though I don't think any come close to being as smoky as smoked Lapsang Souchong.