{"id":199,"date":"2019-01-06T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2019-01-06T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:58:50","slug":"chronicles-2018-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2019\/01\/06\/chronicles-2018-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2018 Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did so much travelling at the end of 2018, and the holidays were super busy! As a result, I think most of my notes are going to be in the Personal section (sorry, job and hobbies&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went on a bunch of work trips! I visited our Seattle office twice and visited the New York office once! It&#8217;s always great to see people in person.<\/li>\n<li>Finished a bunch of reviews for <a href=\"https:\/\/chi2019.acm.org\/\">CHI 2019<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot believe it&#8217;s intern recruiting season again! I feel like I barely just finished with the summer. Time to think about projects for next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finished my entry for the FFXIV NA Fan Fest art contest! I did a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1042983545512198146\">real-time panic<\/a> on Twitter, so you can see how I progressed. I did make it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/fanfest2.finalfantasyxiv.com\/2018-19\/na\/news-na\/announcing-the-winners-of-the-fan-festival-2018-art-contest\">finalist<\/a>, which made me really happy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jojostory.net\/tagged\/inktober-2018\">I did Inktober<\/a> this year again! It&#8217;s so exhausting but I love love love doing Inktober, and I always feel so accomplished at the end of the month. I feel like I wasn&#8217;t as adventurous with compositions this year, but I think I did a better job telling stories with my illustrations.<\/li>\n<li>I tabled at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geekgirlcon.com\">Geek Girl Con<\/a>\u00a0artist alley, which was my first convention in Seattle! It&#8217;s small, but well-organized and the vibe of the convention was really positive and relaxed. I&#8217;m definitely going to look into attending again next year.<\/li>\n<li>I got my first wholesale order! A number of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/jojostoryart?section_id=19055402\">phone charms I designed<\/a> will be sold at a REAL, PHYSICAL store (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moxboardinghouse.com\/\">Mox Boarding House<\/a> in Seattle) in the next month or so, which is nuts! I wish I could go see it on display in person!<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0leveled-up my knitting skills! I made some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1070825647776268288\">mini-stockings<\/a>\u00a0(learned how to knit fair-isle!)\u00a0and some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1077820859237068800\">stuffed animals<\/a>\u00a0(learned how to knit in the round!)\u00a0as Christmas presents.<\/li>\n<li>Right at the end of the year, started working on some new illustrations for Nintendo-themed birthday cards! I managed to finish this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jojostoryart\/status\/1079986666595540992\">Animal Crossing birthday illustration<\/a> just before the new year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0participated in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FanCons\/status\/1059861191248367617\">VoterCon<\/a>! No, really. I&#8217;m going to do my best to be more vocal about civic participation and I am sure as heck going to be on top of voting!<\/li>\n<li>Conventions! I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzcon.com\/en-us\/\">Blizzcon <\/a>for the first time, survived the lines, and spent pretty much the whole time at the Starcraft 2 stage and watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/esports\/story\/_\/page\/blizzcon12\/serral-wins-starcraft-ii-world-championship-series-global-finals-blizzcon\">a non-Korean player win the world championship<\/a> for the first time in Starcraft&#8217;s 20 year history. I also went to <a href=\"https:\/\/fanfest2.finalfantasyxiv.com\/2018-19\/na\">FFXIV Fan Fest<\/a> in Las Vegas and (despite being a little sick) had a lot of fun with friends, hearing about new game updates, and of course, enjoying the Primals concert!<\/li>\n<li>My boyfriend&#8217;s\u00a0family visited from Singapore and Australia! They hung out in California while I was visiting my parents in Seattle, then they came up to the Pacific Northwest and we had fun looking around Seattle and Portland.<\/li>\n<li>More D&amp;D! I didn&#8217;t do as much DMing since my players and I were all travelling a lot these few months, but I kept up with the campaign that I&#8217;m a player in. I also ended up running a mini-session of Mines of Phandelver for my\u00a0boyfriend and his sister while we were traveling together, by printing out some premade characters in our hotel lobby!<\/li>\n<li>Some new things I tried:\n<ul>\n<li>Went to a golf driving range for the first time\u00a0over Thanksgiving because my\u00a0mom\u00a0has been learning golf and wanted to go.<\/li>\n<li>Bought a few little succulents for the home and office! I&#8217;m really enjoying having them with me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Games:\u00a0 Deltarune: Chapter 1 (really enjoyable! great music, art, characters so far), FFXIV (mostly crafting and botanist leveling), FFXV (I finally finished it! I understand now while people are crying over it all the time, ahh)\n<ul>\n<li>I tried out quitting mobages (Dragalia and Granblue mostly) and it&#8217;s amazing how much more free time I feel like I have! Definitely going to stick with it as much as I can.<\/li>\n<li>Started playing Earthbound, Let&#8217;s Go: Pikachu, Smash Ultimate! So many games to play&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Board games: Tea Dragon Society (very very cute art, but not very strategically deep), Fog of Love (interesting, feels a little too real sometimes), Azul (ideal hangout game), Unstable Unicorn (fun, feels like a shorter, less intense Munchkin), Tokyo Highway (really tactile and fun!). I also got my first tarot deck on a whim, which has been fun to play with!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anime: Revue Starlight (it was really good! Recommended if you like magical realism), Little Witch Academia (finished! Very cute, and the story was more solid than I expected), Gintama, Jojo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (enjoyable so far!), Voltron S7 (it&#8217;s&#8230; finally over? It&#8217;s a nice background show, I feel pretty neutral about the overall story), Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas (cute! cute!!!)\n<ul>\n<li>Tried: Sword Art Online Aliciziation (why do I keep trying to watch Sword Art), SSSS Gridman, Tsurune, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime<\/li>\n<li>I also went to see the SF Symphony perform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfsymphony.org\/Buy-Tickets\/2018-19\/Film-Tim-Burton%E2%80%99s-The-Nightmare-Before-Christmas\">The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/a>! This was actually my first time watching the film, though I was familiar with the music. I actually found it a little scary&#8230; how did little kids watch this? \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I did so much travelling at the end of 2018, and the holidays were super busy! As a result, I think most of my notes are going to be in the Personal section (sorry, job and hobbies&#8230;) Academic Went on a bunch of work trips! 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