One of my earlier posts – describing a club meeting with an American professor – enabled me to establish connection with Ken Stoltzfus. I felt a bit shy about writing to Ken who had never heard about me. A professor in Malone University with Ph.D. in Social Work, Ken, nevertheless, turned out to be a very friendly, approachable person, and soon my initial shyness vanished. We exchanged a few emails, then actually met to agree with Oksana Vladimirovna – the hostess of the club – on the date of the first meeting, and on May 22nd the first of our three club meetings took place.
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And no, I don’t mean the dance, but the amusement ride by that same name available in our city park.
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Yesterday Info Expert celebrated its 6th birthday, which to us meant going to a special event. Prior to the day, we discussed where to go for weeks; initial plan was to go to the woods and have a picnic there, but the weather forecast was disturbing. Just before our birthday the unusually hot weather left us, and for the 26th we had chilly and windy forecast. Even rain was mentioned; fortunately it never showed itself until we came back home.
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I’ve just lost two of my web projects – Foreign Reader Says and Saratov Unknown. The reason: McHost – my host – has a business-related conflict with the organisation that provides a datacentre to them (Oversun Mercury). They have given different explanations of the situation – as different as day and night, but as one of the victims of their fight I hardly care who of them speaks the truth and who lies. Let them decide in court. But why couldn’t they warn the clients in advance?
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The English Speaking Club I attend in one of our local libraries has been having difficult times. I used to go there every Saturday until the meetings abruptly stopped a month and a half ago, when our guests of honour – young American Mormon missionaries – said they were no longer allowed to attend just so they could pay more attention to their mission.
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I’ve had many jobs, but again and again I had to hand my bosses my letters of resignation and quit. For different reasons: some jobs didn’t give me satisfation, either because I was forced to do things I didn’t like to do, or because I had to do them the wrong way. Other jobs were quite satisfactory morally, but didn’t pay well, since there was too little work to do; after waiting for a while I’d give up. Sometimes there were too little co-operation from the boss – or too little trust, respect, understanding. All the time I was dreaming of a perfect job, where I would be asked to do things I’m best at, respected for what I do and paid decently for my work.
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It’s been four months since I launched my first blog, Foreign Reader Says, and the more I blogged about books, the more I felt that I wanted to blog about many other things too – in other words that I needed a general blog. So I was sketching designs, thinking about topics for my future blogging and waiting. Saitiria.com was registered at the same time with the two other domains, but I kept it for a business website – it seemed to be a good brand name. Once I even started building a website with this name, just as becoming officially an enterpreneur seemed a matter of days. But there was always a Plan B.
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