commit 0cc828519c1d8b7c33a101713de2d46be43f5ca5
from: Alexander Arkhipov <aa@manpager.org>
date: Tue May 28 17:56:50 2024 UTC

fix (?) and expand the timeline

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@@ -12,31 +12,53 @@ be not entirely accurate.
 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