Trying To Wrap Up Before Vacation

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I am hopefully flying to Helsinki in two days. “Hopefully,” because Finnair is on strike, but in some weird intermittent way, so I am still unsure whether my flight is affected. However, I should know by tomorrow morning, so fingers crossed! Unfortunately, I had something planned before and after my trip, so I could not move it. If my flight is cancelled, I must cut my vacation by two days.

Other than that, I am extremely tired. Work is absolutely crazy. Also, I am trying to use the longer days for longer bike rides. The trains are more and more crowded, and I rarely get a chance to sit down on the 7 AM train. And if I want to take 6:30 AM, bike for 1 hour and ten minutes (that’s what it takes to the Montrose Harbor and back), take a quick shower and change, and get out of the house at 6:10… You got the idea.

There are many conference-related activities, and although these are all good, there are still many of them. We had a meeting with potential website developers today, and I received a response to my email about budget lodging options, and I had to reply. I sent the first catering quote request. And I need to figure out who I can ask to do our social media, because I can’t do it all…

And with this, I am going to stop complaining right now and go to bed 🙂

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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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