Since there was almost no word from me this week, one can imagine that my life was pretty intense. And it was, indeed. It was rather bad for the previous two weeks as well, and this week, things at work continued to be crazy.
Tuesday was especially challenging because, in addition to work, I presented at an online conference. The talk was pre-recorded, but I needed to be there for Q&A, and I also made an effort to listen to other speakers. After work, I had a meetup with Chicago Open Source Data Infrastructure, and the RSVP list was over eighty people, so I had been panicking since the night before.
Also, I am leaving on vacation on Sunday, which is good, but the number of things to be done before I leave is unimaginable! Wish me luck!
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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