welcome to ThinkASAP

I finally started this blog for a few reasons. Firstly, I am really self-conscious about writing in an informal sense, like with a blog. I tend to overthink the way everything sounds to the point of being a perfectionist, which is just silly. So I’m hoping that doing a lot of writing will loosen me up.

Second, the title. I mostly added the “think” because ASAP was already taken. But I was always concerned that having a blog, at least one that people liked to follow, meant having a topic and sticking to it so people weren’t bored with off-topic posts. And I wanted to write about everything that crossed my mind! So I just resolved it by making a blog that is inclusive of many of my thoughts and opinions; that way, most things oughta fit in. ASAP: Academia, Science, Atheism, Politics. (Add an “O” for the occasional off-topic post, which I hope you’ll oblige me.)

And lastly…I really just love to write. Language, writing and words may be underappreciated by many as mere forms of communication, but to me they are an art. It is an art to be able to share a complex thought with someone using words. Does anyone else think it’s amazing that humans can share ideas to the extent that we do, without being able to telepathically transmit images of our thoughts to each other? It’s beautiful to me that we have developed a mode of communication so through, so extensive, that we can understand what other people are thinking by the way they speak or write. Truly amazing when you think about it.

So, I hope you enjoy what I have to offer. Please feel free to comment away; I mean for this to be a place of thoughtful discussion regardless of our opinions on a topic. Just don’t troll or be an asshat to someone else, and you’re welcome to stay. 🙂