Most of this week I had been working on a problem and on thursday I finally managed to solve it. The solution is not very elegant, but what the heck. Life has been going good for a while.

Swimming came to me naturally. Well not really that natural, but I went to the pool and tried copying others, I kept trying for a week and I could swim. Then I attempted swimming on my back and after another week, I could swim on my back. So, I was attempting teaching a friend how to swim and I realized how hard it can be for some people. I guess half of it is just fear and panic when they lose footing. Well, the way I learned and I keep telling people is that, when you are in water that barely reaches your shoulders, it is somewhat hard to drown, even willingly. So, you should not panic. At the worst, you end up with a nose and mouth full of water, but then that is the price you have to pay. Don't panic and keep trying, seems like a valid motto for anything in life. Wish I could just follow this in other aspects of my life. So by the end of the 2-hour session I was teaching the friend, floating on the back was accomplished, reasonably well. I mean I just put a little support from under water on the shoulders and the rest of the work of keeping afloat was done quite well.

Ravi wants to go visit a local club, he says it seems like kind of cool, I dunno, I don't particulary like clubs, probably because I don't drink. Incidentally, if we start from the basics, I knew Ruchi Agarwal at University of Pittsburgh, Ruchi hosted Swati Gupta at her place for a few days when Swati first arrived in USA.

Ravi at Panther Creek Trail
So Ruchi introduced me to Swati. Swati frequented my house a lot and we had some good times at Pitt. Nisha was Swati's second roommate and towards the later part of my stay at Pitt, all of us had a gala time. Nisha introduced me to her friends, Lakshmi, Amita, Gayatri, Apsara and two guys whose names I cannot recollect at the moment (ahem!). Nisha is a consultant and travels frequently. She told me about a friend of hers who is in Atlanta and does not have many friends but shares interests with me. On one of her visits to Atlanta, she introduced me to this friend, Ravindra (Ravi). Since then Ravi and I have gone on hiking and biking a few times. So the trail is like:
Sanjeev-(fellow student)->Ruchi-(hosted)->Swati-(roommate)->Nisha-(fellow student)->Ravindra

Also, if you look at the way I describe things and write about them, you might come across the fact that oftentimes, things are more convoluted than they need to be. I am a fairly intuitive person and my mind is often correlating things in the background. Often, while talking I come up with a totally random topic (Abhishek, my cube buddy, once told me that I am a totally random number generator), I can often correlate it with the topic that was under discussion beforehand. By correlate, I mean, I can tell you exactly how my line of thought moved from one topic to another. So, even though seemingly random, my line of thought is quite logical, at least from my point of view.