2015 in review

Highlights:

• Winter/Spring: Interviewed with Ai2 and became aware of the advantages of working for academia when it comes to race and sex discrimination.
  
• Summer: Made art daily, usually in the form of acrylic monoprints.
  
• Autumn: Learned to make thai curry. Health tanked again.
  
• Winter: Art habits shifted from paint to fiber. Seasonal! Also, my very first Christmas tree :D
  

Statistics:

• Knits: 2 hats, 2 pairs fingerless mitts, 3 pairs of mittens (1 lined in alpaca for P), 1 pair of socks, 3 bluebirds of happiness, 1 stjarna/star, 1 shawlette
  
• Spins: 6 pounds of fiber
  
• Soaps: 15 batches (1 a rebatch)
  
• Dyes: 4 (cochineal, black walnut, weld, indigo)
  
• Plane trips: 2
  
• Road trips: 1
  

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Plans for 2016:

• Hobbies: soap, fiber, dye, ... handquilting?
  
• Travel: Kansas City, MO for PLY Away; Wooster, OH for the Great Lakes Fiber Fest; Bonnyville, AB for the Rivard Reunion; Boston, MA for the c/o 2006 10-year reunion, Kingston, WA for my-parents-moved-into-a-new-house
  
• Work: a webapp & visualization for our logic+machinelearning programming engine; student mentoring
  
• Garden: green beans, hollyhocks, coreopsis, cosmos, ... flax? curry? keffir lime? parsnips?