welcome back, julie :)

i'm here and working hard! that's the reason i haven't been blogging. aside from lunch with rupa yesterday, and the 30 min phone convo with my parents this morning (which i hadn't spoken to in like 1 week), i've been trying to catch up to all the work i missed in the past couple of weeks.

nush - i think the sooner you tell dev, the better. if not, he's going to feel upset and deceived that you've made up your mind about what you want, yet you're pretending like nothing has changed.

megan - i'm not dating joe yet. before i left for miami, he said he wanted to take me out to dinner when i get back. i guess i'll call him tonight because i think he might be too much of a wimp to call me if i don't take the initiative.

rupa - i think you should forget about what moush says and tell him anyways. i agree with megan: who do you think knows ameya better, moush, or his roommates? i think she might just be a wee bit jealous because, if he's dating you, then she can't command all of his attention like she usually does when the 3 of you are together.

and now for me: i totally fell in love while i was in miami. ok fine, not 'love', but i'm definitely in 'like' with spikey (his name is alex, i'm sure it'll be easier for all of you to remember him as spikey). nush - you met him briefly. he lives in miami, he's friends with one of our friends, rey, he went to college in cornell. he came over to the apt one night when we were all going out - he was in town for a night. i was showing him the apt, we came into your room and i introduced him as spikey, so he showed you the picture of him in high school when he had a mohawk, which is why we call him spikey. anyways, that's the first time i'd met him. since them, we've hung out a couple of times when i've been home, but nothing significant had ever happened between us. i always knew he had a crush on me, though. anyways, we hung out a lot more this time when i was home. i even made out with him when i was sober! i can't remember the last time i kissed a guy when i was sober ;) he took me to a miami heat game one night, and we had an awesome time. his friends told me that he said to them, "dude, julie's smart, she's cool, she's pretty. . .that's the kind of girl you marry." guys don't usually say that - i thought it was cute. obviously, nothing's going to happen since i'm here and he's there, but it was still a fun 1.5 week fling :) oh yea, there's also a pretty big factor i forgot to mention: he's 23 yrs old, and he has an 8 yr old son. so yea, needless to say, he's not perfect. jackie says she thinks he might be a bit of a player, too. i guess i just liked him because he was really fun and silly - i love guys that are always joking around and don't take themselves too seriously. anyways, he said he'd come visit again sometime, so we'll see :)

i also met a guy who's friends with my cousin, natalia (she's the 19 year old who's a bit wild, came from colombia like 2 years ago, and lives with my parents now). he's actually lived in my neighborhood forever, he's friends with all of my friends in our neighborhood, he went to the all-boys highschool next to my highschool, yet we'd never met. his name is esteban, he's colombian (both parents are colombian but he was born in miami, so kind of the same as me), he's a year younger than me and super short (either my height or maybe even a bit shorter!). if it wasn't because of the height and the fact that he's younger than me, i'd be totally interested in him. he was really cool and nice and sweet, although he wasn't very attractive.

oh well, that's enough rambling for now. dammit, now i need to find time to go back and read all the old blogs. . .