I am indeed embarking on a whole new area of procrastination with this blog. You see, I am in the 'final' stages of my PhD research. All the data has been collected, is understood quite well, there are piles of papers in my office, and yet, I stare at the screen with an empty mind. Having an empty mind however is rather discomforting if not downright terrifying to someone like me. So, I do allow my brain to wander off into areas where actual thoughts return, leading in this instance, to a blog.
So, as I have alluded to I am a student. I will finish my PhD in Neuroscience (expect plenty of ruminations on the workings of the brain) at the end of this year. At which point I will return to medical school in the US (also to be expected is the occasional rant about the American health care system). And many years down the line I should be found as a child psychiatrist, researching how psychiatric disorders develop in childhood.
You will notice that I have put all of that up front. I would like to think that my career doesn't define me, but, it certainly informs much of my thinking. Perhaps more importantly, the elements of 'me' that have led me to that career choice are highlighted quite nicely. It would take far more than three sentences to get across everything those three sentences tell you if I chose the reflective route instead.
What about the rest of me? I love to read. I love to travel - usually by myself. I enjoy taking photographs, will probably share many travel photographs. I'm certainly American, but I'm also Finnish. I've been living in Iceland for the past three years (most beautiful place in the world, you should go). I look at the US rather differently than many Americans. Not with the same detachment of course as a true foreigner, but certainly with an altered perspective. It will show.
And one last thing, I can't get away from the fact that I'm a single woman approaching 30. I'll just let that one stand.
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