Celebrating One Whole Year

Yesterday was Molly's first birthday, and we had a wonderful family celebration.  Looking back, I realized just how much I've accomplished this year! With Christmas and New Year's around the corner, what a perfect time to reflect on all the good things.

In the last year, I have, in no particular order:

• Recovered quickly from an unwanted but complication-free c-section.
• Had 8 months of leave to be with Molly.
• Taught my mini-course on games and computer science for girls.
• Ran a study in my mini-course about teaching computer science with story, and wrote and submitted a paper about it.
• Brought Molly car camping twice.
• Figured out my thesis project.
• Set up an awesome back room play area for Molly.
• Got my wisdom teeth out.
• Had my first of two eye surgeries to help halt my keratoconus.
• Taught a Processing workshop for Girl Develop It.
• Gave a talk at a local sci-fi convention.
• Did a TEDx talk on women in tech.
• Travelled to Baltimore for this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
• Submitted and presented a paper on my augmented reality work.
• Got a great team together for Gram's House, and helped move that project forward.
• Got a draft together of a paper on nonlinear stories in traditional media and games.
• Finished my QR code iOS app, and am about to submit it to the App Store.
• Edit to add: Interviewed and got short-listed for a faculty teaching position.

And I did all of this while nursing Molly and being her primary caregiver the majority of the time (even when off leave).  Can't have it all? Says who? ;)