After The Conference

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It has been four days since the conference. After a complete relaxation on Saturday, I started to return back to reality, which included going through three hundred non-work emails and dozens of work requests.

A huge portion of my non-work emails was Postgres-related, conferences-related, or otherwise not-really-personal. I am still not through all of them, although I hope that I didn’t miss anything really urgent. Here is what I’ve done so far:

  • Posted the questions for PG Day Chicago feedback
  • Discussed “lessons learned” from the conference day with other organizers
  • Collected feedback from room hosts
  • Emailed several people with whom I talked at the conference and promised to email
  • Scheduled May meetup
  • Published a blog about PG Day Chicago
  • Checked all bills that have accumulated during the past two weeks
  • Paid everything that was due 🙂
  • Emailed the dates when I can volunteer at the Night Ministry
  • Decided on the dates when I can do several shows I want to attend in May and June
  • Figured out most of my May-June schedule
  • Ordered a new dishwasher

The things I still didn’t do and need to do in the next couple of days:

  • Schedule the rest of the conversations I’ve promised to schedule
  • Record a sample video for an online conference where I will present in June
  • Prepare the actual presentation for this conference
  • Submit proposals to three conferences which will be happening this fall and which I want to attend
  • Write two professional blog posts
  • Write a LinkedIn recommendation I’ve promised
  • Find time to meet with three more people with whom I want to meet

Plus, lots of biking (the sunrise is finally early enough!), lots of shows to see, and the full Chicago summer ahead!

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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