2017

highlights

  • Ran the Philly half-marathon
  • Did my first international solo trip: to Mérida, México
  • Completed the 73 miles of hiking in 5 days on the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu, Perú with my family
  • Became conversationally fluent in Spanish in about 9 months
  • Learned how to play the violin
  • Learned a new programming language (Scala) and programming paradigm (functional programming) enough to be productive in them
  • Cosplayed twice as Wonder Woman
  • Led a developer team and kept a technology department afloat
  • Changed jobs for the better but left old one on good terms
  • Read 33 books

courses/languages/lessons

non-fiction

  • Accelerated Spanish, vol. 1 by Timothy Moser
  • *Algorithms and Data Structures in Java *by Robert Lafore (on hold)
  • Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzalduia (on hold)
  • *Elements of Programming Interviews in Java *by Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash (in progress)
  • *Functional Programming in Scala *by Rúnar Bjarnason (in progress)
  • Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava
  • *Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work *by Kat Arney (in progress)
  • Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley (in progress)
  • *Machu Pichu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour *by Ruth M. Wright
  • Modern Web Development with Scala by Denis Kalinin (in progress)
  • *Scala Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming *by Alvin Alexander
  • Programming Interviews Exposed (3rd Ed.) by John Mongan (on hold)
  • *The Secret History of Wonder Woman *by Jill Lapore
  • *Vietnam: Rising Dragon *by Bill Hayton (in progress)

fiction

  • *Giovanni's Room *by James Baldwin
  • *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince *by J.K. Rowling
  • *I Am Legend *by Richard Matheson
  • *Juliet Takes a Breath *by Gabby Rivera
  • *Left Hand of Darkness, The *by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • *Lexicon *by Max Barry
  • *Six Wakes *by Mur Lafferty

comics

  • *Batwoman: Elegy *by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III ❤
  • Fruits Basket**, **vols. 5-14
  • Low, vols. 1-3 by Rick Remender
  • Monstress, vol. 1 (again!), vol. 2 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (in progress)
  • *Saga *vol. 7 by Brian K. Vaughan
  • Sensation Comics: Wonder Woman, vol. 1 (again, apparently!)
  • *She-Hulk *by Soule, Pulido, Wimberly, vol. 1
  • Untamed, Theby Sebastian Jones (in progress)
  • *Wicked and the Divine, The *by Gillen, McKelvie, Wilson, Cowles, vols. 1-3
  • *Who is Wonder Woman? *by Allen Heinberg
  • *Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia *by Greg Rucka
  • Wonder Woman, vol. 2 by Greg Rucka (in progress)
  • *Wonder Woman *(DC Rebirth), vols. 1-4 by Greg Rucka
  • *Wonder Woman *Omnibus (issues 1-24) by George Pérez (in progress)
  • *Wonder Woman: The True Amazon *by Jill Thompson

video games

  • *Assassin's Creed: Unity *
  • Dear Esther
  • *Final Fantasy XV *
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us
  • *Mass Effect: Andromeda *(in progress)
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  • Persona 5
  • Stardew Valley
  • Swapper, The
  • *Tom Clancy's *The Division

movies

  • Arrival
  • Big Sick, The
  • Blade Runner
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Fences
  • For the Love of Spock
  • Get Out
  • *Ghost in the Shell *(2017)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Hidden Figures ❤
  • Hunger Games, The: Catching Fire
  • Justice League
  • Kubo and the Two Strings
  • Minimalism
  • *Murder on the Orient Express *(2017)
  • Minions
  • Secret World of Algorithms, The
  • Sing
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi ❤
  • Thor: Ragnarok
  • Wonder Woman x2

tv series

  • Archer, seasons 1-2 (3 in progress)
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender, seasons 1 and 2
  • Black Mirror, seasons 1-2 (3 in progress)
  • Chicas del Cable, Las, season 1
  • Club de Cuervos, season 1
  • Durarara!!, season 1 (in progress)
  • Expanse, The (in progress)
  • Flash, The, seasons 1-2 (season 3 in progress)
  • Game of Thrones, seasons 4-6
  • Insecure, season 1
  • Mr. Robot, season 1 season 2 in progress
  • Niña, La (in progress)
  • Rick and Morty, season 3
  • Silicon Valley, seasons 1-3 (again), season 4
  • *Star Trek: The Next Generation *, season 1 (in progress)
  • Star Trek: The Original Series, seasons 1-3

destinations

  • Yucatan Peninsula, México
  • Lima/Cusco/Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu, Perú
  • USA
    • Delaware
    • DC/Maryland/Virginia
    • Michigan
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • Pennsylvania
    • Wisconsin