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Despite a long night (it is Austin after all) and a really long day, our team takes the trophy in the Formula-1 Division.

Have you ever walked out of a test thinking you had just dropped the worse bomb of your life, only to learn later that you did very well? I felt that way two weeks ago, until I got the AIR-Austin results back today.

I thought we had a bullet-proof team. With a healthy mix of experience and skill, I knew Team UTSA (Christopher Chipps, Maria Corral, Carolyn Ellis, and Shashi Pinerio) would be a tough contender. Then the last hour of competition. Everything felt like it fell apart. Links were broken, pages wouldn’t load, bandwith was tight, I was just glad to stumble out with a tattered site posted.

I was so sure that we let Personal Connections Health Care Services down that I didn’t even make a showing at the awards ceremony.

Alas, we won. It was a lot of fun, and I am looking forward to AIR-San Antonio.

This makes me think of a recent event in my life that I can only sum up with a quote:

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
–Alexander Dumas

She appeared on the front page of the metro section!

I had the best time yesterday handing my daughter the front page of the San Antonio Express News for Monday, October 10, 2005. I can imagine that the moment was very surreal for her. She knows that many people read newspapers and was excited to know that she was in it.

The article was about the Dia De Espana, an event hosted by the Casa de Espana and held downtown at the San Fernando Cathedral. Cecilia was dancing with her flamenco group, Academia de Arte Flamenco.