2019 Decade Reflection
Jan. 2nd, 2020 09:15 pm2009: had my first full-time job, through meeting the CEO of a medical software company through a modeling website (IDEK, this is just how my life went at the time), and I promptly lost the job a few months later because I clearly did not know what the hell I was doing. Also started getting into steampunk and blogging, published my first major essay at Racialicious on steampunk and race.
2010: Did a MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory! Attended my first conventions, including WisCon. I also published my first short story! I met![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dmp for the first time in person after months of long correspondence.
2011: mucked around! I applied to a bunch of places for my PhD. I got acceptances to three schools: UBC-Okanagan (CAD10,000 fellowship, renewable), UC Santa Cruz (History of Consciousness, no funding), UC Riverside (fully-funded). I also started editing my first steampunk anthology.
2012: Did a road trip from Texas to Massachussets, courtesy of Magpie Killjoy, who I knew through steampunk (and who is now a fab author in her own right). I moved to California to start my PhD!
2013: Attended my first Eaton conference!
2014: Attended my first SDCC! I was on the "Women in Steampunk" panel. I also passed my quals and started editing THE SEA IS OURS withjolantru!
2015: Attended my second SDCC! Withdmp! I also sold my first "professional" story!
2016: This was the year Timmi Duchamp asked me to edit THE WISCON CHRONICLES??? That makes it the third anthology I published while doing my PhD. I distinctly remember asking my advisor if she thought I'd have time to edit an anthology and she was like "aren't you supposed to be finishing your dissertation" and FAUGH CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, clearly.
2017: It was A YEAR. I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (all I wanted was a psych referral) so I went without sugar and rice for like, 7 months, took up swimming regularly, went from 8 laps in the pool to 30 by the end of summer, and reversed my diabetes. Graduated! Am now a doctor.
2018: Started working for Tachyon Publications!!!!!!!! It's kind of my dream job and still remains so and just kJBHFGOIHRGKJWuhSDKJERKJFLS????
2019: Uhm. Ran out of legal status, started the process for applying for a new visa, got rejected, had to move home. But also edited my first real project!! THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by RB Lemberg, coming out next September!!!!!!! I also found cool industrial espionage in space thriller NUCLEATION which is coming out next November!!!!!!! Hopefully next year I get other cool debut projects!!!!
Anyway this has been a gr8 decade =) Thank you all for being here with me.
S/O to:
Chris Chinn, Eric Atkinson, Joyce Chng, Diana Pho, Maurisa Thompson, Jackie Gross, Julia Chang, Astra Kim, Nisi Shawl, Monique Poirier, Maria Velasquez, Patricia Pinto, May Chong, Tariq Ali, Tempest Bradford, the Tsaibradors, Nalo Hopkinson, and I should not have started this list aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Also my little "hi!" message at the top of the Recent Entries page is set for 2020?? LMAO! I think I made it back in 2005 when I first got onto DW. Crazy, how time flies like that.
2010: Did a MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory! Attended my first conventions, including WisCon. I also published my first short story! I met
dmp for the first time in person after months of long correspondence.2011: mucked around! I applied to a bunch of places for my PhD. I got acceptances to three schools: UBC-Okanagan (CAD10,000 fellowship, renewable), UC Santa Cruz (History of Consciousness, no funding), UC Riverside (fully-funded). I also started editing my first steampunk anthology.
2012: Did a road trip from Texas to Massachussets, courtesy of Magpie Killjoy, who I knew through steampunk (and who is now a fab author in her own right). I moved to California to start my PhD!
2013: Attended my first Eaton conference!
2014: Attended my first SDCC! I was on the "Women in Steampunk" panel. I also passed my quals and started editing THE SEA IS OURS with
jolantru!2015: Attended my second SDCC! With
dmp! I also sold my first "professional" story!2016: This was the year Timmi Duchamp asked me to edit THE WISCON CHRONICLES??? That makes it the third anthology I published while doing my PhD. I distinctly remember asking my advisor if she thought I'd have time to edit an anthology and she was like "aren't you supposed to be finishing your dissertation" and FAUGH CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, clearly.
2017: It was A YEAR. I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (all I wanted was a psych referral) so I went without sugar and rice for like, 7 months, took up swimming regularly, went from 8 laps in the pool to 30 by the end of summer, and reversed my diabetes. Graduated! Am now a doctor.
2018: Started working for Tachyon Publications!!!!!!!! It's kind of my dream job and still remains so and just kJBHFGOIHRGKJWuhSDKJERKJFLS????
2019: Uhm. Ran out of legal status, started the process for applying for a new visa, got rejected, had to move home. But also edited my first real project!! THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES by RB Lemberg, coming out next September!!!!!!! I also found cool industrial espionage in space thriller NUCLEATION which is coming out next November!!!!!!! Hopefully next year I get other cool debut projects!!!!
Anyway this has been a gr8 decade =) Thank you all for being here with me.
S/O to:
Chris Chinn, Eric Atkinson, Joyce Chng, Diana Pho, Maurisa Thompson, Jackie Gross, Julia Chang, Astra Kim, Nisi Shawl, Monique Poirier, Maria Velasquez, Patricia Pinto, May Chong, Tariq Ali, Tempest Bradford, the Tsaibradors, Nalo Hopkinson, and I should not have started this list aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Also my little "hi!" message at the top of the Recent Entries page is set for 2020?? LMAO! I think I made it back in 2005 when I first got onto DW. Crazy, how time flies like that.
