{"id":193,"date":"2018-12-19T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2018-12-19T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:09:48","slug":"chronicles-2018-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/chronicles-2018-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2018 Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished serving on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cscw.acm.org\/\">CSCW<\/a> 2018 program committee! It was my first time in a PC meeting and seeing the paper acceptance process behind-the-scenes&#8230; I didn&#8217;t have any papers that I needed to particularly champion, so a lot of it was me observing how more experienced folks talked about the value of different kinds of research work. I think I learned a lot.<\/li>\n<li>I served on the Scholarship committee at work! It was a pretty intense process of reading applications, meeting with the other committee members, and holding interviews&#8230; but it&#8217;s definitely a rewarding process, especially because you get to interact with so many great students.<\/li>\n<li>Finished up my summer internships! All my interns started on papers for CHI, but we decided not to submit and work on fleshing them out a bit more for a future conference deadline. I&#8217;ll be continuing to work on these projects with my interns!<\/li>\n<li>Accepted a few roles for <a href=\"http:\/\/cc.acm.org\/2019\/\">Creativity &amp; Cognition<\/a> 2019, which will be in San Diego! I&#8217;ll be serving as\u00a0a mentor for the Graduate Symposium and as one of the Posters &amp; Demos Chairs.<\/li>\n<li>Spent some spare time learning React and Node! I think one of my goals for the rest of this year (or next year?) will be to use these as much as possible to try and get a good understanding of it.<\/li>\n<li>My company\u00a0decided to write a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.adobe.com\/researcher-spotlight-joy-kim-on-connecting-creative-people\/\">Researcher Spotlight article<\/a> about me and my research :O<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tabled at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anime-expo.org\/\">Anime Expo<\/a>&#8216;s Artist Alley! IT WAS. SO. HOT. OUTSIDE.\u00a0Fortunately the temperature in the artist alley was totally fine! I feel like they made a lot of improvements this year &#8212; they included this reserved rest area for artists and artist helpers which was a great place to take a break from the crowds and eat some food away from all my precious merch! I hope they bring it back next year.\n<ul>\n<li>I usually don&#8217;t take commissions at AX because traffic is so crazy, but I did end up taking one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/jojostory\/art\/Anime-Expo-2018-755860175\">commission<\/a> for a repeat customer that was fun to work on!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I also tabled at <a href=\"https:\/\/crunchyrollexpo.com\">Crunchyroll Expo<\/a>&#8216;s Artist Alley! I had a couple of new pieces a merch, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/jojostory\/art\/VAMPIRE-KISS-Inktober-2017-753394483\">sketchbook of my Inktober drawings from 2017<\/a> and a small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/jojostory\/art\/Call-Me-Nines-761960399\">Nier Automata fanart print<\/a>\u00a0(that I had to get rush printed because I finished the game and drew some fanart last minute!). I also did a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/jojostory\/art\/Crunchyroll-Expo-2018-Commissions-763140052\">commissions<\/a>, including probably <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1036699264833871872\">my favorite drawing I&#8217;ve ever done for someone<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Got into <a href=\"https:\/\/geekgirlcon.com\/\">Geek Girl Con<\/a>&#8216;s Artist Alley! I&#8217;m excited because this will be my first Seattle convention and I&#8217;ll be meeting lots of artists and attendees I&#8217;ve never met before!<\/li>\n<li>Added all the new merch I&#8217;ve made so far this year to the <a href=\"http:\/\/jojostoryart.etsy.com\">Etsy store<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I have been bad about doing <a href=\"http:\/\/herogirlcomics.com\">my weekly comics<\/a>. \ud83d\ude10 I think I let all this convention prep get the better of me&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highlight of the quarter: I MET <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yasuhiro_Wada_(video_game_designer)\">YASUHIRO WADA<\/a> (the creator of Harvest Moon) AT AX AND <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1015356853805608960\">GAVE HIM\u00a0MY HARVEST MOON FANART<\/a> AND I THINK HE LIKED THEM! I also got to get his autograph (and made some friends in the autograph line &#8212; so nice to chat with other Harvest Moon fans!)<\/li>\n<li>Got my tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/fanfest.finalfantasyxiv.com\/\">FFXIV Fan Fest<\/a>! I actually missed out on tickets, but it turned out that an FC member was able to snag a couple. See you all in Las Vegas!<\/li>\n<li>Attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffdistantworlds.com\/\">Distant Worlds<\/a> concert with some friends!<\/li>\n<li>My boyfriend and I babysat a friend&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1024514199303536640\">kittens<\/a>\u00a0for a few weeks and had a lovely time! Eevee is a super sweet, smart Abyssinian and Bansky the Bombay is a little terror that wants to hunt everything in sight (but is still very cute).<\/li>\n<li>Tried a bunch of stuff to try and get more healthy. Started playing tennis on the weekends, and also started seeing a chiropractor and dietician for some other issues, though I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll keep doing it in the long term. We&#8217;ll see how it goes!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m learning\u00a0how to knit! I&#8217;m teaming up with someone at work to create a knitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcomeblanket.org\/\">Welcome Blanket<\/a> that will go to refugees entering the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Anime:\n<ul>\n<li>Hanebado (was really excited for this, but I can&#8217;t get into the characters), Hinamatsuri (surprisingly funny and sweet), Cells at Work! (feels a bit too edutainment-y), BNHA (of course), Chuunibyou movie (super fluffy and romantic!), Asobi Asobase (I very reluctantly find this show hilarious), Harukana Receive (wanted girl&#8217;s sports anime, got fanservice&#8230; boo), Chio&#8217;s School Road (just ok), Gintama (I am never going to catch up), Voltron Season 6 (I mean, I&#8217;m just in too deep now)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Games:\n<ul>\n<li>Went on a mobage downloading frenzy (FF\u00a0Dissidia Opera Omnia, Grow Stone, Digimon Links, Dragon Village M, Idle Poring, and got back into Tiny Farm and Pokemon Go a little, please, someone help), Little Dragons Cafe (very cute but it&#8217;s laggy loading times makes it kinda hard to play), Rune Factory 4 (I still haven&#8217;t unlocked the third story arc but I finally managed to start dating some of the characters!), Story of Season: Trio of Towns (really addicting and cute!), and caught up on FFXIV patch 4.3\u00a0and 4.4.<\/li>\n<li>I finished Nier Automata, and oh my god, what a crazy game. It defied all my expectations, to the point where <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1032478968706813952\">I can&#8217;t decide if I even like the game or not<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Watching a lot of Starcraft recently! I only played the game a bit when I was younger, but I found that I enjoy spectating!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lots of D&amp;D this month!\n<ul>\n<li>My players and I managed to keep to a monthly schedule, and I think I really grew as a DM &#8212;\u00a0I had the epiphany that I should be rewarding\u00a0players for their own actions, even if I have to hastily improv something a little sloppy\/dumb, rather than rewarding them for being able to read the preconceived scenarios that I have in my mind. That seems to work out way better (at least for my players). We also had a fun session where one of my friends joined us as a temporary guest player where he died at the end, and that was all very exciting and the scenario actually managed to bring a little emotion to the table. Success!<\/li>\n<li>I also joined a separate D&amp;D campaign as a player, this time with some grad school friends! It feels so good to not have to prep for sessions \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Academic Finished serving on the CSCW 2018 program committee! It was my first time in a PC meeting and seeing the paper acceptance process behind-the-scenes&#8230; I didn&#8217;t have any papers that I needed to particularly champion, so a lot of it was me observing how more experienced folks talked about the value of different kinds&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/chronicles-2018-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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}