I just wanted to drop a line about why I chose to name the blog Synthesis. There actually is a reason, believe it or not. I hate naming things, usually, because I can never come up with anything that sounds right, but I did this time. Synthesis was born the day after I made this entry in my LJ. (You probably won’t be able to read it, it’s protected. The link is just there for certain LJ friends so that they know what I’m talking about.) The entry basically says “My emotional responses are manufactured, and I’m tired of it.” So the blog is named Synthesis because so much of what I seem like is just synthesized for the benefit of others. And because I’ma dork, and it sounded cool and science-y. And my favorite part of bio was protein synthesis.