Hey, I am Suf! Welcome to my first actual micro-blog. I am a postdoc bioinformatician working in cancer research during the day, and I geek out over books, stationery, and journals at night (at home, of course).
Why am I here?
For over exactly 17 years, I've stopped journaling my thoughts on paper because I discovered Twitter and got addicted (in the truest sense of the word) to posting every single noise my brain made. It was definitely cathartic and scratches that specific itch of somehow craving an audience to my thoughts (we can unpack that later if you are up for it).
In the last few months I've begun journaling again and I think my attention span and my headspace are so much less rotten than they have been in the last decade. But there have been moments when I would find myself reaching for my phone to tweet the most random thoughts I have — I have been affectionately calling them my brain farts — before realizing I have abandoned that wretched hell site. These are things that I specifically want to document digitally and/or have it available as my digital footprint (why one would want this, is also something I need to unpack with a therapist) so I can refer to them, but writing them down feels limiting.
Then voilà, I discovered Bearblog. The fast, no-nonsense setup roped me in. I also have a sapling of a personal blog project for the more fleshed-out thoughts of mine (not opinions) so I suppose this micro-blog can be the opinion-based write-ups/miscellaneous mental ephemera hub to that personal Github blog, like a side dish nobody asks for but one the restaurant has been trying to push for customer rating of.
So here goes nothing.
The Clock Tower at the University of Melbourne. Taken during my final year undergrad in 2015.