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title: Now
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date: 2022-02-01
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layout: permalink
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description: "Find out what I am doing now: what I'm reading, what I'm working on in my free time, and where I'm at professionally."
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**You might also want to read:** [What is a "now page"?](https://nownownow.com/about)
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## Recent academic and professional decisions
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Through AmeriCorps VISTA, I have been serving as the Program Evaluation Specialist at a large human service organization.
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I have been working toward a second bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science) at Thomas Edison State University (TESU). I am currently taking Computer Architecture (COS-330) and the Liberal Arts Capstone (LIB-495). I also made use of credit recommendations from [ACE](https://www.acenet.edu/National-Guide/Pages/default.aspx) and NCCRS for coursework at non-collegiate providers (e.g., [Saylor Academy](https://learn.saylor.org/)).
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I applied for fall 2022 admission at four ALA-accredited master's degree programs in library and information science.
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## In my free time
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I'm toying with the idea of writing publicly on [Write.as](https://ethan.writeas.com/) again. I only made it to Day 4 of the 100-day challenge, but I did end that last post with "I'm having fun writing posts as part of #100DaysToOffload!"
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I'm also planning to update [the resources page](/resources/) (or create a separate page) with content related to civic technology, computational social science, and data science.
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## What I'm reading
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Schoonmaker, S. (2018). *Free software, the Internet, and global communities of resistance.* Routledge.
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# In previous months
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## January 2022
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* I officially withdrew from the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at Smith College School for Social Work, from which I had been taking a leave of absence.
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* I finished the November 2021 term at Thomas Edison State University, including three [online courses](https://www.tesu.edu/academics/online-courses) (Data Structures; Database Management; Software Engineering) and two [e-Pack courses](https://www.tesu.edu/academics/e-pack-courses) (Computer Concepts and Applications; Industrial Psychology).
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## November 2021
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* Between moving in January 2021 and summer coursework at Smith College, I had some months where I wasn't regularly volunteering as an EMT. I'm back to it as of late November 2021.
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## December 2020
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* I started participating in [#100DaysToOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/) on December 1. #100DaysToOffload "challenge[s] people to publish 100 posts on their **personal blog** in a year." I'm posting these entries to [Write.as,](https://ethan.writeas.com/) a blogging platform with its foundations in [free software](https://writefreely.org/) and [a respect for privacy.](https://write.as/principles)
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* I disabled access logs and updated the [privacy policy](/privacy/) on December 24.
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* I left Mastodon for a few weeks before creating a new account as [@ethanyoo@todon.eu](https://todon.eu/@ethanyoo) on December 29.
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## November 2020
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* I wrote my first "personal" post on November 2, where I describe [leaving Cloudflare and GitLab Pages.](/cloudflare/)
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* I'm back to volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) as of November 4.
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* I posted the [privacy and security policy](/privacy/) for this website on November 8.
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* I wrote a new ["Start" page](/index.html) on November 11; it's now more of a landing page. There is an image of the old index page at the bottom of this post.
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* I added the "Now" page (what you're currently reading) on November 11.
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# Images
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