{"id":181,"date":"2018-05-06T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T05:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2018-05-06T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T05:04:30","slug":"chronicles-2018-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/chronicles-2018-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2018 Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post is about\u00a0a\u00a0month-and-a-half overdue, but here we go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work continues to be hard but fun and interesting! My current struggle: figuring out how to reduce meetings and increase available time for research work. I&#8217;ve been asking some more experienced folks for advice and was relieved to hear that it&#8217;s perfectly reasonable I&#8217;ve been more meeting-heavy since I&#8217;m trying to\u00a0get to know people and figure out what projects to work on. I got some good pointers and encouragement on how to make sure I&#8217;m spending my time on the things I find most interesting. (Side note: my work colleagues are super nice and thoughtful people and I&#8217;m so glad I work with them!)<\/li>\n<li>Worked with a few folks to submit\u00a0a talk\u00a0proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/hcic.org\/hcic2018\/index.phtml\">HCIC 2018<\/a>! Will\u00a0it get in? I hope so! (But then that means I have to prepare a presentation, so&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>I interviewed potential hires for the first time! It&#8217;s super weird being on the other side of the table. I think I already\u00a0knew this, but actually\u00a0conducting interviews and participating in meetings about hires\u00a0really cemented for me how difficult and human (?) the whole process is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2018\/02\/06\/hourly-comics-day-2018\/\">Hourly Comic Day<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Got into <a href=\"https:\/\/a-kon.com\/\">A-Kon<\/a>&#8216;s artist alley! I&#8217;ll be there from June 7 &#8211; 10 this year. It&#8217;ll also be my first anime convention of 2018,\u00a0which makes me a little nervous. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done commissions and travelled for a con!<\/li>\n<li>Finished my first illustration this year: a portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/Alphinaud-and-Alisaie-727043988\">Alphinaud and Alisaie<\/a> from FFXIV!<\/li>\n<li>Also did a few <a href=\"https:\/\/jojostory.deviantart.com\/art\/FFXIV-Characters-Part-2-733179010\">ink sketch portraits of my D&amp;D players&#8217; characters<\/a>! A whole year ago I had done a few for two players for their birthdays and realized I had never given birthday presents to the rest of them&#8230; Better late than never?<\/li>\n<li>Spent some time putting together some speedpaint videos of newer illustrations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCb_wf02o-YyJr4GWjAKgfAA\">my YouTube channel<\/a>! I actually really\u00a0enjoy putting these together&#8230; it&#8217;s relaxing to see the end result and it&#8217;s fun finding and working with\u00a0music artists and\u00a0featuring\u00a0their remixes and songs.<\/li>\n<li>Tried a stab at a new\u00a0type of comic for Herogirl that I&#8217;m\u00a0calling &#8220;Neat Things&#8221;, where I illustrate a fact or real-world story that I\u00a0find neat! My first one was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2018\/02\/20\/neat-things-citrus-fruits\/\">the history of citrus fruits<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I put\u00a0together my Inktober 2017 artbook and sent it off to print (finally)! I&#8217;ll hopefully have it up in my Etsy store soon.<\/li>\n<li>Completed another <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/post\/169192066498\/new-year-new-hobonichi-super-proud-of-myself-for\">full Hobonichi<\/a> and started a new one! I&#8217;m so glad to have discovered journaling and I hope I can keep it up for many more years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made self-care a 2018 resolution for myself! So far, I&#8217;ve:\n<ul>\n<li>Started getting monthly massages. This is the one thing I&#8217;ve been looking forward to trying to do\u00a0now that I have more disposable income.<\/li>\n<li>Started running twice a week! By &#8220;running&#8221;, I mean jogging lightly on a treadmill for like 15 minutes. My knees were not liking this, so at a friend&#8217;s suggestion, I got myself some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2018\/03\/13\/new-shoes\/\">new super-cushioned running shoes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Committed to doing yoga twice a week! I&#8217;ve been doing it on and off for the past year, but now I&#8217;m making it a part of my weekly schedule. I just do it at home by following along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/yogawithadriene\">Youtube videos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Made time for meditation. Now that I regularly take the train\u00a0to work, I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s\u00a0provided me a way to get\u00a0a 10-minute meditation session in my day. I am still terrible at it, but hopefully this will help me do it more regularly.<\/li>\n<li>Worked on better sleep hygiene. I&#8217;m trying a couple of different things to help me fall asleep in a reasonable amount of time (like, falling asleep in less than an hour would be <em>really<\/em> nice), like not eating and exercising at night and not looking at my phone in bed. I also started wearing an eyemask\u00a0&#8212; I used to think I was pretty good at sleeping with lights on, but the eyemask has been probably one of the most helpful things I&#8217;ve tried so far.<\/li>\n<li>Tried out a daily &#8220;worry time&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herogirlcomics.com\/2018\/02\/13\/lets-hang-out\/\">I worry about everything<\/a>, all the time, for any reason, so I thought I would try taking 20 minutes or so each day to worry as much as I want! My thought was that this would help me worry less the rest of the day, but so far I&#8217;m finding it just makes me more anxious than before. Go figure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anime: Girl&#8217;s Last Tour (my favorite anime I&#8217;ve seen in a while! Very cute and mysterious), Pop Team Epic (I can&#8217;t tell if I liked it or not, but it was&#8230; engaging?), Yuru Camp (the animation quality and characters were nothing to write home about, but it was a relaxing show and <em>very<\/em> good at making you want to go camping), Gintama (still good, still working through the archives), Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Arc (enjoying it so far! It&#8217;s pretty true to the original anime, which I love)\n<ul>\n<li>Tried: Osomatsu S2 (I&#8217;m not sure why, but the humor just didn&#8217;t hold my attention this season), Love Live Sunshine S2 (the plots for each episode started getting repetitive), Darling in the FRANXX (no), Idolish7 (why did I try this), A Place Further than the Universe (looks great, but the story seems a bit heavy! I&#8217;ll have to come back to this), Violet Evergarden (same), Mitsuboshi Colors (animation quality is great, but I couldn&#8217;t get into the humor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Games: FFXIV Patch 4.2 (finished Coil of Bahamut with some friends finally, cleared Byakko Ex, leveled some of my crafters to 70, and I changed my main class to PLD!), Dai Gyakuten Saiban (finished watching a let&#8217;s play of this, enjoyed the fun story!), Persona 5 (still working through it, still good, but\u00a0<em>it&#8217;s so long<\/em>), Granblue Fantasy, FF Record Keeper<\/li>\n<li>Podcasts: The Adventure Zone: Amnesty, Wonderful, The Polygon Show, Acquisitions Incorporated\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0nabbed tickets to see MBMBAM and The Adventure Zone live in June!\u00a0Woohoo!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>D&amp;D:\n<ul>\n<li>Had my first session with my D&amp;D group since October!<\/li>\n<li>Because we&#8217;ve been having some trouble role-playing, I set up individual character brainstorming sessions with each player and I think that actually went pretty well! I&#8217;m also starting to see how a story can come together based on how characters&#8217; individual backstories connect&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Built\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnd.joyk.im\">a campaign wiki<\/a> to help me keep in-game and DM knowledge separate and to have a place where I can keep session notes \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This blog post is about\u00a0a\u00a0month-and-a-half overdue, but here we go! Academic Work continues to be hard but fun and interesting! My current struggle: figuring out how to reduce meetings and increase available time for research work. 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