Stick your neck out

I began this day over a cup of coffee with a very inspiring chap from Ireland. Among other things he is a professional journalist so we began talking about international publishing. What else?

I mentioned him my blog and that it was supposed to be ‘a blog about my PhD’. “You never mentioned you had an English language blog”, he replied. Due to my almost total lack of self esteem I apologized and gave him the address.

In a way, that’s the reason I am writing now. In the beginning I thought this blog would be a serious installment of my academic thinking. At least I thought my blog would inspire research into (and about) Transhumanism. Now I understand that this is a blog for me first and for you (who I still believe are out there) second.

And that’s not bad. In fact, that’s just the honesty a project like this needs.

Right now I am sitting and writing this in bed. Next to me is my wife and my 3 year old daughter. She has trouble sleeping tonight and I’m waiting for her to calm down so that I can piece together my talk for the Sociology Day. There was a rescheduling and my talk is on Thursday. No worries, I have it covered.

The Annual Sociology Days in Turku begin on Thursday and I’ll post a report on the whole ordeal later this week.