{"id":128,"date":"2016-09-12T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-09-12T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T01:08:23","slug":"chronicles-2016-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/chronicles-2016-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2016 Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been interning at Yahoo with the awesome UX research group! I learned a ton about user research methods and tools, as well as how the work differs from the more academic work I&#8217;m used to.\u00a0I was hoping UX research was going to be the magic career that would match up with my life perfectly, but I find that I still don&#8217;t know what I want to do when I graduate. Maybe I&#8217;m setting my expectations too high. I have to remember that any career will have good and bad parts to it. Above all, I need\u00a0to get used to the idea that I&#8217;m probably going to have structured working hours. As a grad student I used to lament that work time could be any time,\u00a0but now that I&#8217;m at the end of it all and have figured out a good system for managing my time, I think I&#8217;m going to sorely miss my freedom.<\/li>\n<li>My two <a href=\"https:\/\/cscw.acm.org\/2017\/\">CSCW<\/a> papers were both accepted into the revise &amp; resubmit stage of acceptance! One did a lot better than the other.\u00a0After a ton of revising, I was happy to see that both papers were accepted to the conference. Now for camera-ready edits!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I tabled at <a href=\"http:\/\/iie540.wixsite.com\/kinyoobicon2016\">Kinyoobi-Con<\/a>! They expanded the Artist Alley a tiny bit this year, but traffic (and sales)\u00a0were definitely down compared to last year, so I think I&#8217;m going to have to pass on this con in future years. However, nice staff, and free food!\u00a0Got to do <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Kinyoobi-con-2016-Commissions-627435040\">a commission of a client&#8217;s OC<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>After some nail-biting, managed to snag a table for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krakencon.com\/\">Krakencon<\/a> in the Fall!<\/li>\n<li>A few\u00a0bigger commissions this summer! I think I&#8217;ve found my niche: <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Commission-The-Fantastically-Fearsome-Five-629560539\">anime-style\u00a0portraits<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Commission-Family-Portrait-622285165\">friends<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/149439135625\/working-on-a-watercolor-family-portrait-this-week\">family<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Made <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/147208945570\/i-revamped-the-herogirl-comics-business-card-d\">new artwork for Herogirl<\/a>! I&#8217;m using them on my business cards now, and maybe I can figure out how to incorporate it into a cover for the Chapter 2 book?\u00a0I&#8217;m really proud of the colors on this one.<\/li>\n<li>Because I hate my arms, I started and finished a <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/149861389708\/got-my-entry-for-the-ffxiv-fan-fest-art-contest\">submission<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ffxiv-fanfest.com\/na\/activities\/index.php\">FFXIV Fan Fest art contest<\/a>\u00a0in like 5 days!\u00a0I think it&#8217;s probably the most complex composition I&#8217;ve ever done and I really feel like I pushed the limits of my skills with this one. I suspect having such a tight deadline made me second-guess myself much less than usual.<\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostoryart.etsy.com\">Etsy shop<\/a> has been getting a noticeably increased number of sales and views! I&#8217;m experimenting with Instagram marketing, and that seemed to boost sales quite a bit. The release of Pokemon GO has also boosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/261522187\/pokemon-badge-trainer-nametag-pokemon?ref=shop_review\">my Pokemon stuff<\/a>! I also added a new item for sale: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/472599435\/magical-girl-clear-acrylic-charm-phone\">magical girl charms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2016\/08\/30\/storyline-chapter-5-page-17\/\">Herogirl\u00a0Chapter 5<\/a> is still underway! Still nervous about wrapping up the chapter nicely. It&#8217;s almost done&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>As one of my research projects, I created <a href=\"http:\/\/mosaic-art.herokuapp.com\/\">Mosaic<\/a>, a community for artists to share works-in-progress snapshots of their art! It saw a bit of activity even after the research project ended. It&#8217;s definitely on my todo-list to move it to a proper server and market it a bit&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Still working on exercising regularly!\u00a0I&#8217;ve been trying to stick to meditation using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headspace.com\/\">Headspace<\/a>, but I&#8217;m only managing about 2 or 3-day streaks. I usually try to do 10-minute sessions in the morning, but internship work commutes sort of messed up with that plan. I had a hard time finding an alternate time for some quiet time. I stuck with yoga fairly successfully, though, and have been using Pokemon GO as an excuse to go walking for long amounts of time during the weekends.<\/li>\n<li>Travel: I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2016\/09\/06\/wedding-comics-fashionably-late\/\">my cousin&#8217;s wedding<\/a>\u00a0and it was beautiful! After that, I headed to\u00a0Japan to basically do\u00a0an\u00a0art pilgrimage through <a href=\"http:\/\/benesse-artsite.jp\/en\/\">Naoshima\/Teshima<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/e\/e3031.html\">Roppongi Hills<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Anime: My Hero Academia (good ol&#8217; fashioned shounen anime feels), Mob Psycho (my favorite anime of the season so far!), The Disastrous Life of Saiki Kusuo (my second favorite!), This Art Club Has a Problem (third favorite!), Love Live Sunshine (doing a pretty good job distinguishing itself from the original), Shokugeki no Souma (mindlessly entertaining, and ruining my ability to enjoy food at fancy restaurants because I keep thinking about how anime people would react to food),\u00a0New Game (Yuru Yuri-ish vibe, mildly entertaining and relaxing to watch? Also glad I don&#8217;t work in Japan). I also finished Princess Kaguya (the Ghibli movie&#8230; beautiful movie, ends very sadly)\n<ul>\n<li>Tried: Qualidea Code (so hilariously bad), Love Lab (a bit too cringey)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Games: Finally finished Stardew Valley (with about 3\/4 of the available achievements and high praise from my in-game grandpa)! I am finally free from my farming prison. Getting ready for the new FFXIV and gearing up! And still playing FFXII, and am now in the last dungeon. The end is near!<\/li>\n<li>Books: The Lean Startup! It was pretty interesting to read this while working at a large company. Definitely food for thought on how to work with others on projects. Also gave me some ideas on how to grow Mosaic into something beyond a research project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Academic I&#8217;ve been interning at Yahoo with the awesome UX research group! I learned a ton about user research methods and tools, as well as how the work differs from the more academic work I&#8217;m used to.\u00a0I was hoping UX research was going to be the magic career that would match up with my life&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/chronicles-2016-summer\/\"> <strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}