I’ve had better. So see you later 2018.
That’s me on the right with some of my museum colleagues playing the gamelan, which was installed in an exhibition. This was my first time playing the gamelan since I was a member of the nascent Pitt Gamelan Ensemble in the fall of 1996, when I was a grad student at the University of Pittsburgh and the Ensemble was a class taught by a grad student and before it became what it is today. I tried looking for any record of that class or the performance we did in December of 1996 at Heinz Chapel, but it seems to have been erased from history. Continue reading
Masks at Nim Po’t, Antigua, Guatemala
Fuego Volcano erupting, Antigua, Guatemala
Learning to cook, Antigua, Guatemala
Valentine’s Day, New York City
Hike near Lake Placid
Lake Placid
Deb and Max play with Snapchat
Subway, Seoul, South Korea
Samsung Art and Design Institute students, Seonyudo Park, Seoul, South Korea
Changdeokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea
Secret Garden, Seoul, South Korea
Samsung d’Light, Seoul, South Korea
Young visitors to the traditional Hanok Village in Jeonju, South Korea
Maine
Poison Ivy eradication prep
Buttermilk Falls hike, Ithaca, NY
Election Day 2016
Thanksgiving Dinner
Fifty-six blog posts published so far this year
Number one, most-read blog post: Review of Justin Cronin’s “City of Mirrors”
Number one, most-watched videos: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s “Can’t Help Myself” from the Guggenheim Museum
Two poems published: “That Day in Assisi” and “For Your Own Safety”
One short story published: “Auntie Lovely Says Goodbye”
Two countries visited: Guatemala, South Korea
Twenty-four books read
Twenty-one seconds: Best completion time of the NYTimes mini puzzle
Patronus: Fox
Participation Award: La Tortilla Cooking School, Antigua, Guatemala
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for my blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people.
Some random metrics about my life in 2014.
Blogging
Number of blog posts on michaeljanairo.com: 73
Most read blog post: Readercon wrap-up: ‘You don’t look Filipino’
Work
Number of jobs left: 1
Number of new jobs started: 1
Writing career
Number of short stories published: 3
Number of writing conferences attended: 1 (Readercon)
Music
Top Spotify artist: Bruce Springsteen
Travel
Number of countries outside the US visited: 1 (Guatemala)
Number of cities outside the US visited: 7 (Monterrico, Antigua Guatemala, Panajachel, Santa Catarina, San Antonio, Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala)
Number of US cities visited outside the Capital Region: 14 (NYC, Pittsburgh, Providence, New Haven, Boston, Cambridge, Williamstown, North Adams, Freeport, Prospect Harbor, Lincoln, Omaha)
Social media
Number of tweets: 512
Most impressions on one tweet: 40,461
The tweet: https://twitter.com/mjanairo/status/420222698036289536
Most looped Vine: Dance @yaleartgallery
Number of new FB friends: 89
Number of lost FB “friends”: About 200
FB year in review: Here
Most liked Instagram post: Found at work today.
Instagram year in review: Here
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