{"id":155,"date":"2017-04-08T23:12:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2017-04-08T23:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T06:13:39","slug":"chronicles-2017-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2017\/04\/08\/chronicles-2017-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2017 Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I turned in my dissertation! I&#8217;m officially a PhD!<\/li>\n<li>Still focusing on job interviews. Taking it slowly, as I&#8217;m trying to sync up with my partner&#8217;s academic job search as well, but I&#8217;m trying to get my foot in the door on opportunities before others are hired onto interesting projects and teams. It&#8217;s a bit hard getting the timing right&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Presented\u00a0two projects at <a href=\"https:\/\/cscw.acm.org\/2017\/\">CSCW<\/a> in Portland: <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2998195\">Mosaic<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2998196&amp;ftid=1845642&amp;dwn=1&amp;CFID=906125434&amp;CFTOKEN=77140605\">Mechanical Novel<\/a>. I was immensely surprised at how well these projects were received and had a rad time talking to people about their thoughts in this research area.<\/li>\n<li>I moved Mosaic off of Heroku to a proper HTTPS-only server, so now it loads in less than a few seconds! \ud83d\ude1b You can find Mosaic at <a href=\"http:\/\/myartprocess.com\">http:\/\/myartprocess.com<\/a>. (Uh&#8230; how&#8217;s that for SEO?)<\/li>\n<li>Served on a Papers Committee for the first time, for <a href=\"http:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2017\/\">Creativity and Cognition 2017<\/a>! I was a bit nervous about rounding up good reviewers (and hounding them to do reviews), but it wasn&#8217;t too bad! \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li>Took a class on iOS development for fun! Swift is actually pretty fun to code in. I just wish iOS had more of a SQL-like model for handling data storage, but maybe I&#8217;m just not used to Core Data yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally put together\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/l\/incompletezine\">incomplete<\/a><\/em>, a digital charity zine showing how different artists work on their art process! Through a pay-what-you-want set of sales, we were able to raise $92 for <a href=\"http:\/\/afhboston.org\">Artists for Humanity<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I got a table at <a href=\"http:\/\/san-japan.org\/\">San Japan<\/a>\u00a0for 2017! So many out-of-state cons this year.<\/li>\n<li>No new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\">Herogirl<\/a>\u00a0chapter. I&#8217;d like to take some time to try out making a full draft of the comic before making final pages and seeing if that helps with my storytelling. So, I&#8217;m taking a break and doing a bunch of filler comics for a while.<\/li>\n<li>Successfully did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2017\/02\/07\/hourly-comics-day-2017\/\">a comic for Hourly Comics Day 2017<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Did a good number of <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Christmas-2016-Gifts-656071231\">commissions<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Christmas-2016-Gift-Pokemon-Team-656817157\">Christmas gifts<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Commission-for-Mia-666042278\">birthday gifts<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve also been trying to do <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Lunar-New-Year-2017-660560676\">smaller<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Happy-Switchmas-667156845\">messier<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Determination-668487047\">sketches<\/a>\u00a0more often. I need to get in the mindset of quantity over quantity. These &#8220;sketches&#8221; still take about 2 hours each \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of\u00a0<em>doing art really slow<\/em>, I spent this whole quarter working on <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Join-Game-670555236\">an original print<\/a>! It&#8217;s a weird experiment with pixel art + painting&#8230; it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how it does at cons!<\/li>\n<li>I now have 2000+ followers on <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\">Tumblr<\/a>! Pretty cool!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Still doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BO-30rfBJBN\/?taken-by=jojostoryart\">daily journaling in my Hobonichi Techo<\/a>! I got some Midliner highlighters for Christmas which have made making colorful journal pages very easy and fun. Also, I&#8217;ve realized I now have a reason to buy stickers and washi tape at anime cons! Bring on the stationery!<\/li>\n<li>Travel:\u00a0Went\u00a0back to Washington for Christmas! Not much to report there &#8212; just chill time with friends and family. I did go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2017\/01\/24\/hiking-with-dad-part-1-and-2\/\">hiking<\/a> with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2017\/02\/14\/hiking-with-dad-part-4\/\">parents<\/a>. And my dad did<a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2017\/01\/17\/christmas-notes-with-dad\/\"> something embarrassing<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li>Went\u00a0to Portland for CSCW! The conference reception was at the <em>friggin&#8217;\u00a0Portland Art Museum<\/em>! They had a live band playing, and the museum was open just for us conference goers. To top it off, the ending plenary was by Jorge Cham of PhD Comics fame &#8212; it was engaging, funny, and it was cool to learn about what he does outside of comics (namely, science education outreach).<\/li>\n<li>It was weird knowing my childhood home was nearby but that someone else lives there now.\u00a0I missed riding the MAX. I missed the airport carpet. I was surprised at how popular Blue Star Donuts has gotten. I got to check out some cool restaurants (Tasty n Alder, Apizza Scholls, and Farm Spirit).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anime: Maidragon (so good!), Digimon Tri Loss (many mixed feelings), Jojo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure Parts 1 &#8211; 4 (<em>loved<\/em> it), RWBY Volume 4 (fun but want more story!), Pokemon XY(Z) (the character development and writing is surprisingly good?)\n<ul>\n<li>Tried: Gabriel Dropout (meh), Masamune-kun&#8217;s Revenge (cringey, and all the characters are jerks?), Scum&#8217;s Wish (hard to watch)<\/li>\n<li>Also tried Terrace House on Netflix! I&#8217;m always wary about reality TV because I can&#8217;t handle watching frustrating conflict, but it actually started out kinda sweet and interesting! But I let my guard down:\u00a0soon the show rotated in new people, and the fighting started. Noooo thanks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Games: Continuing to play Granblue Fantasy and Final Fantasy Record Keeper, all the while questioning whether I should be keeping up with it. Finished the story quests for FFXIV Heavensward and survived the credits reel. Can&#8217;t wait for Stormblood! Played my first horror game (INSIDE) with a friend, and it was actually really fun and very well-designed. Ran another D&amp;D session &#8212; I think I&#8217;m getting the hang of it!<\/li>\n<li>Books:\u00a0Slowly getting through Encyclopaedia Eorzea! Started reading Improv Wisdom. Each chapter is bite-sized, and I&#8217;m enjoying using each chapter as material for my daily journal entries.<\/li>\n<li>Podcasts: Started listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/510310\/npr-politics-podcast\">NPR Politics<\/a>! I&#8217;m trying to be\u00a0more politically active by calling and writing to my state representatives about what&#8217;s important to me and staying informed about what&#8217;s going on and potential consequences of whatever is happening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Academic I turned in my dissertation! I&#8217;m officially a PhD! Still focusing on job interviews. Taking it slowly, as I&#8217;m trying to sync up with my partner&#8217;s academic job search as well, but I&#8217;m trying to get my foot in the door on opportunities before others are hired onto interesting projects and teams. 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