{"id":60,"date":"2014-12-25T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-12-25T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T22:55:30","slug":"chronicles-2014-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/chronicles-2014-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles: 2014 Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m a wannabe front-end developer, I follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/\">CSS-Tricks blog<\/a> by Chris Coyier.\u00a0One of things that has stuck out to me most while I&#8217;ve been reading the blog has not been a clever CSS hack or one of the many interesting discussions about web development standards &#8212; it&#8217;s been the occasional additions to Chris&#8217; Chronicle. The CSS-Tricks Chronicle is an ever-growing reflection of stuff done, attempted, and attended, and it seemed to me like a good way to either 1) remind myself that I actually do a lot of cool stuff or 2) help me realize that I&#8217;m not doing cool enough stuff and I need some self butt-kicking.<\/p>\n<p>Looking\u00a0at my list below, I&#8217;m now realizing it&#8217;s a good way to reflect on whether I&#8217;m balancing the important stuff in my life the way I want to.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Joy&#8217;s Chronicle #1.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I TA&#8217;d for my last program requirement this quarter, meaning all I&#8217;ve got left is thesis\/defense\/dissertation left before I can call myself The Doctor. Uh, easy-peasy, right?<\/li>\n<li>A paper I wrote as part of my Adobe Research internship last-last summer\u00a0about supporting video story creation for novices got into CHI 2015.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m preparing another paper that didn&#8217;t get into CHI for a different conference. Stay tuned!<\/li>\n<li>Finished up my tenure as a <a href=\"http:\/\/brown.stanford.edu\/magic\">Brown Magic Grantee<\/a>. The last all-hands meeting at Columbia was great. Now I&#8217;m going to be a mentor at the upcoming Brown Institute Base Camp at Stanford in mid-January.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, did lots of brainstorming for upcoming projects. I have some ideas about supporting creative experiments I&#8217;m excited about, so hopefully those can turn into something shareable soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made an overall commitment to work on art more! I started out doing really well with daily drawing exercises, but that tapered off towards the end of the quarter. Weirdly, it wasn&#8217;t a motivation thing &#8212; I just ran out of ideas for things to draw. Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sketchdaily\">\/r\/sketchdaily<\/a> or similar would help?<\/li>\n<li>In a moment of delusion, I decided I\u00a0<em>was going to table at an Artist Alley matter what. <\/em>I spent a weekend planning out what I would need to buy and make, and applied for tabling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aodsf.org\/\">AODSF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanime.com\/\">Fanime<\/a>. I actually <em>got<\/em> a table at AOD and now I have to follow through on this crazy plan.\u00a0Making middle-school-Joy&#8217;s dreams come true!<\/li>\n<li>I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourcomicsday.com\/\">24-Hour Comic Day<\/a>! I didn&#8217;t do\u00a0Nanomango, but instead committed to drawing two comic pages per week in November, and realized how awesome having a backlog of comics is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started this blog. The original goal was to write a post a week, but I think it&#8217;s going to end up being more bi-monthly.<\/li>\n<li>I started <a href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/waking-up-early\/\">waking up earlier<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tried needle-felting for the first time. It&#8217;s deceptively tiring.<\/li>\n<li>Enrolled in\u00a0TSA Pre.\u00a0I feel kinda weird inside for paying for something that should be normal for everyone, but I have to say zooming through security is pretty nice.<\/li>\n<li>Starting listening to podcasts!\u00a0Ones I like: Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me (makes me laugh), This American Life (makes me cry), Serial, Stuff You Should Know, and Digital Strips. So, mostly NPR. I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiftyjelly.com\/pocketcasts\">PocketCasts for Android<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I actually read this over the summer, but I got through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com\/home3\/\">I Will Teach You To Be Rich<\/a> by Ramit Sethi\u00a0on a friend&#8217;s recommendation. It&#8217;s very practical and action-oriented. Definitely a recommended read if you don&#8217;t know much about personal finances yet (I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you, fellow students).<\/li>\n<li>Other books I managed to complete this quarter: American Born Chinese, Seconds, Who Could That Be At This Hour?, What If?, The Shadow of the Torturer\/The Claw of the Concilitor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Because I&#8217;m a wannabe front-end developer, I follow the CSS-Tricks blog by Chris Coyier.\u00a0One of things that has stuck out to me most while I&#8217;ve been reading the blog has not been a clever CSS hack or one of the many interesting discussions about web development standards &#8212; it&#8217;s been the occasional additions to Chris&#8217;&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/chronicles-2014-autumn\/\"> <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":[10],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-2014","tag-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joyk.im\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}