BLOG REVIVAL!!!

After many years of school, work, and completely changing as a human being, I'm reviving this blog from 5 years ago to record my current adventures into the worlds of computer science and computational linguistics.


Please disregard the previous creative writing posts, unless you have a beer in hand and want to drink it in the shower while crying, like I just did.


Anyway, I am in my late 20s, I have an AA in English and a BA in Linguistics, and have halted my intended path through academia to attend Hackbright, a software engineering program for women in San Francisco.


Right now, I'm looking for a career that will play into my academic interests while also allowing me the freedom to live wherever there are climbable mountains, canyons, boulders, or whatever other rock face-types I'm forgetting. Because, you know, I haven't lived in my car as a full-time climber bum yet (kitty in tow), and since my main goal in life is to embarrass my parents, this seems like a good option for me. Hello, new career, where my office is a car outside a coffee shop, stealing internets!


If you're not bored to tears yet, read on!


My interests include linguistics (computational, anthropological, archival), natural language processing, machine learning, and the like, and I want to work in industry for a while (you know, where there are living wages and maybe even free time) to refine my knowledge of programming before maybe possibly someday applying to grad school. Isn't this post-grad uncertainty thing GREAT?!


At any rate, to my audience of zero, on this blog I'll be linking interesting articles/videos/media on computer science, cats, rock climbing, and ladies-in-tech stuffs while also chronicling the more mundane aspects of my journey (like the joys of finding rental housing in the San Francisco area). So this will be basically a school-diary. Hi, me! Hi.


To begin, here is a totes fab article on what I'm getting myself into called Programming Sucks: Why a Job in Coding is Absolute Hell. It's the programmer's version of Taylor Mali's rant on "What Teachers Make", except less optimistic and filled with snowflakes, hellscapes, and cat urine. Strangely, this actually appeals to me.


And if you're not excited enough by now, please watch me make an ass of myself with a ukulele on YouTube and find joy in knowing that at least that's not you.

So thank you for making it this far. Internet hugs to all!!!


Also, for those of you Hackbright applicants who may be reading this, if you have any questions about the application process, or what Hackbright is like, or if I ever get a job and how you might too, etc., please find me on Facebook, and we can private message about it.


Cheers!