from sunny to slushy

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so today started out as a wonderful spring day. sunshine, students tanning on the lawn, even a home-made slip and slide on the grass. (remember those?) and then i go for a run....and just as i'm about to finish my 3 mile run, it starts pouring!!!! as i run home, huge raindrops start falling. then i get pelted by one right on top of my head..."ouch!" i think to myself - "hey, that raindrop hurt!" but it wasn't a raindrop. it was a slushball! my newly invented word for a large raindrop which was supposed to be hail but didn't quite make it since it was so warm, and thus was only partially frozen - slushball.

lovely pittsburgh....


in other news. the competitions are done! (assuming we are not going to moot, which i don't think we plan on doing)
result - won first place for the elevator pitch and challenger round runner up in canada. about 6K in winnings in total. but we had horrible luck last weekend. himanshu, my partner in canada, got extremely sick with the flu JUST as we arrived in canada. coughing, sneezing, body aches, the whole bit. i felt soooo bad for him. but at the same time, i couldn't help but be a little dissappointed since it meant our presentation was not going to be the most enthusiastic. although i did think we did ok considering he was so sick. we didn't make it to finals like i had expected. oh well, that's how things go. i was happy that we won the elevator pitch, completely unexpected considering i put it together on the plane ride heading to canada. in the competition in nebraska, our other team didn't fare much better and had another catastrophe. during the very first day, as they were setting up the trade show of the competition, prateek accidentaly cut his hand with a box cutter. he had to be rushed to the hospital and then receive 17 stiches and microsurgery to mend some cut tendons. crazY!!! he's ok. and his hand will be fine. we are trying to see if the school or the hotel will cover his medical bills. now that all the competitions are done, life has been a breeze. no homework this week so i went golfing, went gymming every day, and had plently of sleep. next week i have to ramp things up again because homework is due and i need to get started on all my final papers. otherwise, life is good. :) and i WILL get fit before my july party!