Intro Piece

I'm a PhD independent research student at St Andrews, Scotland, and in three years I should have defended successfully my thesis. How much have I written this far? Well, only the thesis proposal... But I heard the other day at the university that it would be a good idea to write every day. This someone also hinted about think pieces that could help in writing. I only needed to find a platform to accommodate the flow of my mind - I bet someday it will be the emptiness of my head that will be on display! However, systematic blogging is something that I know requires bucketfuls of discipline, but that is just the reason why I need to fail publicly, or try not to fail.

I have to reveal that one of the (other) main objectives is to keep on writing in English hoping that there would be some improvement along the way. I do not need an audience; I just need a stage, and that is this blog in the cyberspace. Start your engines! Or, actually, I'll begin tomorrow writing the first official Tommi's Think Piece.

I should warn you, my accidental reader, that my thesis will be about demons and exorcism. In addition, all who know me relatively well know that my mind does not necessarily soar like an eagle - rather it jumps about like a frog, seemingly randomly. It might be hard for others to see the connection between, say, demons and cooking, but I assure you, that in my head it makes perfect sense! (My best friend in high school described once that "Tommi can speak about four different topics simultaneously.") 

Hopefully this quasimodo-academic blog (or any of the readers [if there are any]) will not get filled with ectoplasm!

Ps. If someone accidentally reads this blog, and gets offended by my writings or bad grammar, I have most probably done something right.