Quick update

I'm alive! I've been extremely busy studying for my comprehensive exams, which, if I pass, I'll move from PhD student to PhD candidate. I'm not terribly worried I'm not going to pass, but I AM worried about how much I'll be humiliated in the process if I don't study, so I've been burning through as much ecological literature as I can to understand my study species and statistical modeling. I expect to take my exams in April, so I likely won't have much time in the near future to update the website or just be around in general.

On a more exciting note, the panel I submitted for Othercon 2021 has been accepted! I plan to do a presentation on cooking for your non-human identity, and safe methods to do so. Still considering details (it's in August, so I have plenty of time), but at this point, I plan to run over basic food safety, suggest some safe alternatives for commonly requested foods, and then show step-by-step videos of how to make a few dishes. I plan to record this ahead of time (it's hard to cook multiple dishes properly and do them justice in under an hour for a live audience!) and then spend some time near the end doing some live Q&A.

Last but not least, I've decided at some point I'm going to start going through the Alt.Fan.Dragons Google group and recording the history there. The messages start in December 1993, so I've certainly got my work cut out for me, but as the longest-running draconic message board, it's incredibly pertinent to draconic history and one of the reasons dragonkind have a bit of their own culture compared to other mythkin.

I guess, while I'm on the topic, a few years back I discovered there was another dragon on AFD named Kiera, who sounded extremely similar to me from a morphological standpoint...smallish, black, western, etc. Wild! I wonder what happened to them. I guess I have a doppelganger somewhere out there.