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2000: get born in Moscow
2005: finally manage to pronounce the Russian rhotic sound! still hate
it after, though
-2007: first year at school, first enemies
+2007: first year at school; am hated by peers for being smart, short
+ and girly
2008: the teacher tells us to be quiet; other children violate that
- order immediately; I don't join; I am punished along with the rest
- anyway; I begin internalising a disdain for authority
-2011: switch Minecraft to English; most other programs on my computer
- are soon to follow
+ order immediately; I don't join; am punished along with the rest
+ anyway; begin internalising a disdain for authority
+2009: probably the first time I am told that I am just "not a language
+ learner"
+2010: teacher tells me to promise that I'll receive a 5 (i.e. the
+ highest mark) for the upcoming test; I am confused -- isn't she
+ the one who decides?
+2011: we move to a different apartment, I lose all of my pre-school
+ friends
+2012: mum hires a private English tutor, and I switch Minecraft to
+ English; most other programs on my computer are soon to follow
2013: learn a bit of HTML; love it, but don't know what to do with it
2014: Putin annexes Crimea; the ruble plummets, and everyone starts
hating Ukrainians; I begin googling "how to emigrate"
-2015: move to a different school, get familiar with Pascal
+2015: move to a school for the mathematically inclined, get familiar
+ with Pascal; have some friends again, but don't trust them
2016: switch to Python
+2017: teacher tells me to leave the school, and go back to one for
+ non-mathematically-inclined after I fail a test I didn't care
+ about; I proceed to pass most other tests as usual
2018: graduate from school only to immediately get into a cybersecurity
- bachelor program to avoid army conscription
-2020: install Linux for the first time (later I mostly switch to
- OpenBSD), begin reading lots of nonfiction, and actually doing
- stuff besides playing video games
+ bachelor program to avoid army conscription; make some pretty bad
+ friends there
+2019: conclude that the only thing way in which the university is better
+ than school is that they don't care if I show up or not; proceed
+ to stay at home and play video games all day -- just in time for
+ COVID!
+2020: install Linux for the first time (later switch to OpenBSD), begin
+ reading lots of nonfiction, and actually doing stuff besides
+ playing video games; university "friends" do not approve
+2021: fire my toxic "friends"
2022: Putin invades Ukraine, and I get my bachelor's diploma; instead of
going for a master's, I go for a job, because the IT and CS
- workers are now exempt from conscription; I soon realise my
- hatred for the job
-2023: notice that I have "just about enough" money; secretly prepare
- the documents, and on the last work day of the year, I tell the
- boss I'm leaving
-2024: I am renting an apartment in Kutaisi, working a remote job, and
- meeting people from England and New Zealand; so far so good...
+ workers are now exempt from conscription; coworkers turn out to be
+ pigs, and money to be the only redeeming thing about it all (the
+ military commisar doesn't seem to care for my exemption)
+2023: notice that I have "just about enough" money; terrified of further
+ inaction, secretly prepare the documents, and, on the last work
+ day of the year, tell the boss I'm leaving
+2024: am renting an apartment by the Kutaisi opera house, making money
+ from a remote job at 34 times the hourly rate (though only 2
+ monthly) over the previous shit-show; meeting people from England
+ and New Zealand; thinking about how to get a residency, and create
+ a business
A LITTLE ABOUT ME
