Last Week’s Review

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There has been almost no “me” here during the last week, but there has been a lot of “me” on professional social media. We were advertising Prairie Postgres and the training we organized on April 24. If it were all in one event (the conference and the training), my life would be much easier, but unfortunately, I have to do double work organizing two independent events (and driving our caterer crazy). I am overjoyed that we were recognized by the Postgres Core Team before the start of the conference because it gave me some stability and protection.

However, I am ending up not having enough participants, because I lost advertising time in the beginning, and because I didn’t have much support in promoting Pg Day from people who were supposed to help.

If that wasn’t enough, I had to finish a tutorial proposal for ADBIS; that was what Boris wanted me to do last year, and I promised, but then didn’t because there was too much going on. This year, ADBIS is happening later (at the end of September), and it will be in Finland, so there were even more reasons to try to submit. Realizing that it would be even worse that year, I wanted to prepare the proposal in January, when I was in Helsinki, but this didn’t happen. I started slow, and the deadlines were approaching, and I ended up writing these eight pages of a semi-academic paper during the last two weeks, on top of my PG-crisis. I was putting away almost everything, but I couldn’t put aside work, and work was in a full-blown crisis because of Trump’s trade war.

And on top of that, somebody asked me to apply for yet another board. I know, it sounds insane, but if this happens, I will share the details, and then probably people will understand why :). Nevertheless, this application took several additional hours.

Also, I was sending reminders for training and making sure I placed as many students as possible to attend the PG Day for free. The results could be better, but they are not hopeless.

I have one more week to survive. It would be much better if Boris were here, but I will manage.

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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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