What Else Was Going On

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This week was relatively low in activities because work was insane and because I had a lot of conferences-related things (yes, multiple conferences, and me being there in multiple capacities, do not autocorrect me, Grammarly!) However:

  • pre-op medical appointment on Monday
  • Talked to the organizers of one more Chicago Fintech conference, and we mutually agreed that I am not speaking there (a win, actually!) – also on Monday.
  • Got my RealID (the temp for now, but the actual one coming in the mail) – Tuesday
  • CSO concert plus a dinner in the Thomas club to celebrate my neighbor’s birthday—also on Tuesday (a side note—I love Salonen as a conductor, but his own music does not touch me, and I wish he wouldn’t include his pieces in each program he conducts!).
  • ODS dinner on Wednesday. We made meatballs (on the residents’ request), which we hadn’t made for a while, and there was great engagement and very good conversations.
  • Thursday – as described. To answer the passport questions – I couldn’t renew online because my passport is not expiring within the next year, I just ran out of pages. And taking and editing my own photo would take longer than using professional services.
  • Friday – finally, a quiet day, things started to wind down at work.
  • And it looks like a nice weekend coming up!
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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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