ok, all cleaned up! i was contemplating going back to rgh for the last subject's blood . . . but then i'd be here until 7 or later dealing with it . .. so i'm not and i get to do it tomorrow morning :)
now, the walk to my car :)
can't believe you are leaving so soon nush. how exciting :) good luck with all your work. megan- glad to hear you will be out by 5. i had a relaxing morning- a meeting with jules that turned into a 2 hr chat. and then indian buffet for lunch with my fake-boyfriend jonathan :) which is always fun. now i'm back and catching up on work.
all these people are out sick here or on campuses recruiting so it feels really empty.. and julie's gone. crazy. :( i guess it's all the more reason to concentrate and do work :)
stuff here is getting so busy! and realizing that i only have 3 days to do it is flipping me out!!!
i've been working :)
i picked up specimens at RGH at noon and came to work. then i processed them with eun and now i have a couple minutes. i just turned on my computer! everything is going very smoothly though, so it's ok. i just need to figure out whether i have to pick up samples sometime tonight or whether it can wait until tomorrow morning. and i need to print lables (but my printer doesn't print well) and i need to transfer yesterday's and last week's premie samples to the liquid nitrogen tanks - but i need to ask courtney where to put them. and i need to get tim to sign a form so i can park closer - but i can't find him. and that's it for needs right now! but eun says i don't need to pick up the sample tonight so i'll be out of here by 5:00, i can just use gen's computer or else eun can print the labels, eun probably knows where to put the premie samples, so that's not a big deal . . . so, i finally had time to talk to you guys :)
since julie is leaving and rupa and megan havent been writing, im gonna stop checking!!! if you guys do get the urge to write email me at work then ill check again :)
have a good trip jules!!!
since julie is leaving and rupa and megan havent been writing, im gonna stop checking!!! if you guys do get the urge to write email me at work then ill check again :)
have a good trip jules!!!
i know where rupa is - i just spent like 2 hours chatting with her :)
yea, looks like i'll just have to go shopping now. oh well, poor me.
nush, i don't remember a lot about spain, either. i just remember that madrid is where i discovered my passion for red bull and vodka ;) why is patty going? just for vacation? what city(ies) is she going to? i leave for home in about an hour and a half! :)
forgetting to bring things home is the perfect excuse to go shopping :)
well my boy isnt MIA - he called just now :) he sounded all sad and said he didnt call cause he didnt want to wake me up (i didnt ask, i just asked how his night was and he said fine but he wished he had talked to me...) such drama. i hate it.
patty is goign to spain! jules im sooo jealous! im trying to help her plan it out and find hotels and stuff but i dont remember much so its kinda hard....
that's why i just stick with my boyfriend jackie; she never gets lost on me, and she's always ready to do whatever i want. sure, i'm not as satisfied sexually as you guys are. . .but eh, at least i'm not worried about a stupid boy all the time :)
i feel good today, too! not only am i going home this afternoon, but i had a good night yesterday and a good morning. i had a great workout after work yesterday, then went home and relaxed for a little. when jackie got home from the gym, we just decided to throw sweatshirts on and go to the movies. we saw wimbledon. most of you (except for rupa, since she has the same sappy taste in movies that i do) would probably say it wasn't the greatest movie in the world; but i thought it was cute and i really enjoyed it. then this moring i woke up early, packed, and made breakfast for jackie and me. i like just taking my time in the morning and sitting down to a real breakfast. now i have a coffee meeting (it's a real meeting, i swear!) with rupa in 6 minutes, i'll work for a few hours, and i need to head out to the airport at around 1pm. isn't life great?? :)
although, i think i was on crack when i was packing this morning, cause i just realized i didn't bring any skirts or shorts to wear to the beach. i brought 2 bikinis, just no shorts. oh well, i'll figure it out :)
I think that is not allowed by boyfriends. Dev did that all day yesterday. I dont get it. I just want to date someone who when they wake up in the morning they WANT to call me and say hi, and when they are going to bed they WANT to call and say good night. Is that really too much to ask for? I dont even want to ask Dev to do that (which even though I have, he still doesnt) I just want him to want to do that. I guess this is one of those "this is why girls are so confusing" things.
Megan - did you find edgar?
I feel good today - i went to the gym last night after the conference, ate spinach for dinner, worked out this morning, am now drinking slim fast...tonight im having dinner with my cousin and his wife. and my mom gets back tomorrow!!! i asked allen if i could leave at 3 and go meet her at the airport, he said of course :) so ill leave at 3, take the train to jfk and surprise her. i cant wait to lay on her lap the whole car ride home!!!
im not sure if dev is coming...in my frustration about him being MIA i uninvited him. he was/is mad, but i didnt talk to him last night and now he is in atlanta/pittsburg so who knows when ill talk to him...maybe he will just show up at the airport.
i have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off since 1:30. in fact, with my boss hovering over my shoulder i have gotten nervous enough to enduce craps. instead of doing everything step by step, she had us doing 3 different experiments at once. so, i have a headache, i have some wicked cramps even though i'm not supposed to start my period, and i have about another hour and a half of work to do and i've been here since 7:30ish.
but she's gone. the remaining steps are hugely uncomplicated. everything is good. i think.
although i haven't heard anything from edgar since monday . . . i emailed him twice yesterday and once today and called him at 11 last night and told him to call back by 11:30 (i was going to sleep) and i just called him now . . . i don't know where he is :(
anusha has an excuse (conference), but where are the rest of you??? you're not much of a distraction from work when you don't say anything. . .
i went for a walk in the park for a little :) its nippy out but i like it...
now im off to a conference from 230-5 and then ill go home...dev went to the apt to take my computer cause he needs it for a meeting, so no blogging for me from home...
jules see you at home!
no word from dev :( and no word from the rest of you till now! i was getting pretty fed up with everyone!!! jules this is why i love you :)
mark made an apt to go see my dad next wednesday :) pretty funny huh?
rakesh cancelled on lunch again, geez that guys job sucks!! im brought some soup of my moms here and will eat that then go to a conference, so ill only be at my computer till about 230...then conference, home, gym, studying...
jules - you didnt have to go out last night?
so i make myself accomplish a task, then blog, then work some more. . .
but yes, i'm here :) i did have to go out last night, but i decided that the rain and crappy weather was a good reason to sell our jordan. he wasn't too excited, but still, it's impossible to go out in the rain and look cute! there's no way you'll take an umbrella to a club, and even if you're taking a cab, you still need to stand outside in the rain for 2 minutes while you find a cab! oh well, i'll make it up to him. i had a great, relaxing, warm, and dry evening at home, instead :) amazing how much happier i am when i get a decent amount of sleep the night before. i need to remember this whenever i'm thinking of going out on a weeknight. hhmmm. . . nah, that'll never stop me from going out.
i brought a sandwich today, so hopefully i'll just eat with rupa whenever she gets her lunch. i even got groceries yesterday! i was soo productive. i hate spending $7 on a silly sandwich just cause we're in midtown.
i haven't been at my desk . . . or even in the building! since like 11!!! so, it's not my fault i haven't written - no reason not to love me :):):)
now, i am going to find some lunch
i dont know why the clock is so weird!!! it just changed it by itself to 140 and i didnt do it i swear!!!
i'm listening to Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" right now! sooo random. reminds me of 3rd grade :)
rupa, is your ipod still sick?
hey, i don't like people to bother me when i'm sleeping, so i do the same for others! besides, the plumbing excuse sounds like a pretty good one to me :)
i didn't sleep so well last night - i don't know why, but it was really hot in my room.
nush - have you talked to dev yet? that's weird that he didn't call you. i heard you come home at 3am, and i just automatically assumed he came home with you. i did think it was odd that you were coming home so late at night.
i worked out yesterday, too. i had a good workout, although walking in the rain wasn't fun AT ALL. i had a nice quiet evening to make up for it though - WB tuesday night shows and painting my nails :)
and meg, about gilmore girls: you're right, it's totally not fair for everyone to blame rori for all of this. but it's not fair for you to blame only dean, either. they both fucked up.
jules - when you see me sleeping at 930 you should wake me up!! at least to ask if i want to still be sleeping!!! :)
"the plumbing wasnt working, so i had to stay home for the super to come" allens response, thats what you get for wanting to live in soho. :)
anyway now im here...not rested at all which is what you would think if i didnt get here till 1030
my night: i went home, in the pouring rain, somehow motivated myself to go to the gym (i think i need to get a good taeboe video, that way when its gross out i can stay home and do that...the one bryan got me is way too basic...) then i came home, showered, packed a bag and went to devs. he is leaving today for atlanta, then philly, then CT for the weekend with my fam so i wnated to see him before i left...
i forgot that i didnt sleep at all the night before or any night when it is raining cause the way their roof is set, the rain trickles off alllll onto his AC. and it sounds as if someone is hammering in your ear ALL NIGHT LONG. so i studied for a long time listening to my ipod, we ate dinner, and then i finished studying and tried sleeping, still listening to music to drown out the hammering, went to bed at 11, woke up at 2 cause i couldnt sleep, read the new yorker for an hour, he went to bed, he was fast asleep, and i still couldnt sleep, so i got up, put my stuff back in my bag, told him i was leaving and took a cab home. he was definitely not happy, and was like why are you so whiny what is your problem just lay down and sleep. and i was like you may be able to sleep through this, but i cant, and i asked him to just take the ac out the window...and he said that was silly, so i decided to just leave. i did. got home at 3, slept till 930 :)
still havent heard from him..isnt that weird? if your significant other left at 3 am wouldnt you at least wonder if they got home ok, or is that just me?
and i had the weirdest dream, we were in rochester/hamptons - as in they were the same place...ill write that one later though :)
i agree she is partially to blame.
buuut . . .
lindsay's mom attacked her in the town square and called her a homewrecker and told her to go to hell - all based on a letter that said you need to figure out your life, i'm going to remove myself so you can. and then she went to see dean to apologize and see how he was doing and he attacks her and tells her how everyone is mad at her. well, he came into the situation going on and on about how his marriage with lindsay was over - why is he so concerned that it actually ended then? and he yells at her about the letter - yet shouldn't his response be i had 7 weeks without you around to figure out what i want. i want you. no, he blows up about how stupid he is that he ever liked her in the first place.
thoughts?
he imed me last night. i was playing with my ipod (erasing doubles) and he imed me. he signed off and signed back on twice and imed me both times, but was just like how's life? and i'd answer and ask back and he wouldn't say anything and 10 minutes later he'd sign off and sign on again and say "how's life?"
blah.
and i haven't even talked to edgar since monday :( and he was in a sad mood because he didn't think he had done well on the test he'd been studying all weekend for. its the class he added late and a lot of it was on the first lab, which he wasn't there for so he thinks he got partial credit but not super well. i wasn't going to see him at all on monday, he was like umm . .. i don't really want to come over. but when i offered to come pick him up, he was like ok. its this weird thing between us that he always drives, so somehow its a big deal when i offer to . . . i think it makes him feel like that means i really really want to see him or something? which is true - but i always feel that way and would go pick him up whenever he wanted me too . . . he just doesn't take advantage of it.
how is it his fault??? i think they are both equally responsible. and he's right - why does she want him now? didn't she dump him?
don't get me wrong - i do think he's an ass. i just don't think she's completely free of blame.
he was weird because that is the first time they saw each other since he left the b&b after the kiss! and it's been 7 weeks! and they aren't out of the closet yet!
and i think dean is an ass and rory deserves to be treated better. be mad at her if you want, but its his fault that they slept together.
i, too, had trouble getting out of bed this morning. i went to bed early though- i guess it is the rain. but nobody knows i was late since everyone in my dept gets here later than me anyways, so it's all good :)
megan - all your experiment talk does confuse me. keep telling us about it though, maybe i'll start picking up on it. . .
i only caught the second half of gilmore girls yesterday. it was good, though. why did luke act so weird when he saw lora lai (how the heck do you spell her name??) at the diner?? oh well, at least he gave her the necklace and they almost kissed outside :) i saw one tree hill, too. that one was't as good. i can't believe they got married! i also saw brother bear last night. not as good as aladdin or the lion king, but it was cute :)
ok, time for breakfast (cereal) and coffee. nush was still sleeping when i left home (at like 9:30ish), so she prob won't be here for a little bit. . .
he got me a present. the guy that went to india . . . its an elephant with sequins and beads and its just like 3 inches across and is supposed to be a keychain . . but its a little big to be a keychain . . . but still!
i need to go to the hospital in the next 4 hours - that's how long i have until i do my next step. of course, i already screwed up. but . . the question was why are the cells dying, will this way fix it. that's all fine. but the greater question is of these 3 types of cells, which is producing this specific substance. THAT part i screwed up. but i'm not sure if i really screwed that part up either . . . we'll see :) or we won't see. which won't tell me whether i screwed up. because it could just be the timing of the experiment is wrong, not that my mistake ruined it because so far we haven't seen those results anyway. was that overly vague yet too complicated for you? :)
how was his trip? sorry you lost half the cube.. but i want to hear all about it. when do you go to the other hospital? good luck!
my cubby buddy has been in india for the last 3 weeks and change. i had gotten very used to having my own area. and now he's back! i think i'm going to walk to dunkin donuts and get a bagel . . .
if no one knows you are late, not a big deal :) and you never look like crap, so don't worry.
i think the rain is what makes it hard to get out of bed... i had the same problem today. gilmore girls was good though!! :) good luck with your day, megan. and all of you :)
so, i was about half an hour late this morning. no one knows this but me . . .and i'm really not too worried. half an hour either way should not make a big difference.
what's worse than that is i look like crap. i had some serious issues getting out of bed today . . . and i get to go meet people at another hospital. oh well, if they judge they judge.
nush, are you hooked yet? i probably won't make it home in time for gilmore girls :( i'm going to step aerobics at 6:45 - i guess working out is more important than tv.
i've looked at kmart and target and haven't found anything i like. hopefully anusha will have more luck at walmart :) you should give our microsoft tech support guy a big kiss if he can figure out how to mount it . . .
yay! i'm going home in like 35 minutes :)
if you like that one - go to walmart and what they have. it's a desk organizer. when i was looking there for desk stuff, they had a range from really crappy plastic to nicer wood stuff. and probably a lot cheaper :)
my cells are stimulated!
and i get to be back here around 7 . . . and i have a full day tomorrow. normally, i have a 4 hour break in the morning at this point in the experiment . . . but tomorrow i need to process blood with eun to make sure i know how - and that takes about an hour and change. and i need to go learn where to pick up blood for the study that starts next week and meet the people - which is all at another hospital. so, i think i'm actually going to be doing stuff and setting things up for next week during my break . . .
remember - gilmore girls tonight :)
i emailed them to see if they could think of a way to mount it :) ill let you know what they tell me...
i want to go home!!
the one thing i hate more about this job than lauren...although it takes a lot of time, so if i waste time while i do it, no one cares cause they feel bad for me anyway :) and i think i scored a free lunch out of it today...cause alex spelled a new guy here's name wrong, and they sort of all blamed me cause i think they think im the one who writes them all, i didnt correct them cause i dont really care, and then i told eric (the new guy) that it wasnt me who spelled it wrong he was like sorry i blamed you, ill take you out to lunch :) it sounds weird and maybe sketchy when i write it, but it wasnt at all :)
for the mail thing - i was thinking it should have separate slots cause we tend to separate it and put it on the counter, so it would be annoying to keep flipping through things, if its all for one person...and i def think we need a slot for menus...i dont think we need keys...
and id like the same brown as the wine thing, or white to match the wall/cabinets...maybe im unrealistic, but 50 seems like a lot for a piece of wood that holds our mail! im gonna look at walmart this weekend...
after seeing your requirements.. the hold everything one sounds best :) it's really dark wood.. the brownish black kind- has a few slots and is sleek/modern. the key hooks are nice too, not ugly. it's $58 which is a bit more than budget.. but i like it :)
i'm gonna call apple tonight about my ipod. i hope i didn't lose it all!!! jules, if i did, i need to get your latin stuff again too... i loved having those songs randomly come up when i'm listening.
you know you can erase whatever you don't like, right?? and, just as a disclaimer: i am not responsible for all of the music on my computer! a lot of the gay stuff is courtesy of peter ;)
rups - did you figure out what was wrong with your ipod? did you manage to steal megan's songs? if you did, i want to get them from you at some point. ..
i like rupa's version of megan's experiment better. although, thinking it over, i guess that means i wouldn't get to make out with ryan if megan comes here. hmm. . . also, with our busy schedules, i think we MIGHT be able to fit megan in sometime in november, maybe?
i'll look at hold everything when i get a chance. i don't know what jackie and anusha had in mind, but i was thinking of something dark (either black or dark wood) or ultra sleek/modern. i don't really care if it has separate mail slots or if it only has one slot. i guess at least 2 slots would be useful cause then we could put our menus there, too. same thing with keys - no definite requirement for key hooks. if it has them and it looks good, that's good. if it doesn't have them, it's ok too.
soo. . my only requirements are- basically, just something that'll hold mail (and maybe menus), looks good, and is relatively cheap ($30-$50 maybe?).
you girls want to help?
i like the thing from hold everything :) . . . in fact, i requested their catalog. because i need anything from there? no. it just made me happy to look at it online - think of how happy it will make me when it comes in the mail! i contemplated requesting the williams sonoma catalog too . . . but i thought killing trees for the sake of a catalog i know i will not buy from was bad enough, didn't want to kill twice as many with a second catalog i'll never buy from . . .
i just drank 2 fake-nalgene's worth of water which is making me feel better. i like megan's experiment idea, but i say we try keeping one variable constant (megan) and change the other (rochester). meaning.. megan you should come HERE and spend 2 days with us and see if it makes us feel better. :)
i love looking for homestuff.. can i help? there was one at hold everything that i was first looking at before jules and i got the orange thing from ikea. it was called something like "entry mail center". it was chocolate brown and had 4 slots for mail and key hooks. what do you guys want it to look like? super modern steel like? or wood? do you want different mail slots? or just one for everyone? do you need it to have spots for keys?
i mean, now that my whole life is research . . . i understand that you need to change the variables in an experiment in a very methodical way so as to get a clear idea of what that variable is responsible for. knowing this, if one possible reason for julie's and rupa's unexplainable illnesses is megan withdrawal . . . i think there needs to be an immediate return to rochester and an exact repeat of the last weekend to prove whether it is withdrawal from the weekend. if the symptoms go away, i guess you'd just have to move here . . . if not . . . well, you just get to see me again :)
sounds like you have such a demanding job!
nush - the cabinet from west elm is cute, but definitely not worth it. i'm sure we can find someting nice and a lot more reasonable.
i don't know what's wrong with me, but for the last two days, i've been getting really dizzy whenever i eat. i just had some cake and now i feel like crap :( rupa says she hasn't been feeling so hot, either. i think we're going through megan withdrawal!
so, eun wants me to use some program to play with data. the program is on the community computer in the lab. this morning (when i was signed up for it) one woman was using it. now (when i'm signed up for it) another girl is using it. its not very pressing and i don't really want to do it - but still! annoying! but since i don't want to do it - and there really isn't anything to do except play with the program and get to know how to do things, i'm just not motivated to make a scene (especially since i took a long lunch and was late for my time anyway)
this is cute! but its also 129....maybe target makes something like that....
http://ww2.westelm.com/cat/pip.cfm?template=8grid&pkey=cwalshv&gids=p186&cid=walshv&area=shp
it's screwing with our blog! ;)
i don't know why jackie called you - i told her i'd talk to you and figure it out. she was like: "yea, but i had two free minutes so i decided to call, too." it's good to know we're all on top of things and won't get evicted.
jackie and i keep looking for a mail thing, too, but we haven't found anything either. we're also looking for a napking holder, although jackie wants a cool one like they have in the restaurants, so i'll let her deal with that one.
i agree - this past weekend in rochester was very nice and relaxing. it's still hard to believe that we did nothing but watch tv all day sunday! and i loved every minute of it :)
argh! i ordered a bday cake for my office mate (nush, she's like your patty, except that i'm not as nice as you so i dont hang out with her), but the cake isn't here yet . . .
in one week!!!! so i wont be there for the happy hour. I need to figure out what kind of suitcase to bring! And I wanted to take a look in yours and Jackies closets for random summery dresses that would possibly cover my ass (if you guys have those...) i plan to shave every day next week :)
but next thurs when you have it you should discuss dinner at nobu :) im totally craving sushi...all the time
maybe ill go grab some for lunch today...rakesh cancelled lunch...
did you try the forgot your keys at home trick with nysc? i want to try to leave early today to go to the gym and be productive in studying...
my computer has been very confused with me today cause i keep switching from EST to time in Madras to find out what time it is for my mom :) my calendar has been confused cause of it and maybe thats why this thing got confused too...i just talked to my mom, and now i wont talk to her till tomorrow when she is in london (and that time difference i can do in my head and dont get confused about...) so hopefully no more BofA standard time issues.....
jules - jackie just called worried about rent...its nice to have other people worried about things instead of me for a change!!! i think thats what i needed...and this weekend of having no plans and not having to get up for anything and not having to do anything we didnt want to do made me realize that i kind of like that :) granted im busy for the next like 10 weeks, but after the exam...for me 2 months off before it all starts again i think i may adhere to this not planning and just doing thing.....lets so how long this lasts.....
my brother found some cute magnets yesterday that he brought for kerry so i told him to bring them this weekend and if i like them he can buy them for our fridge :) other than that i just want to get a thing for our mail! i keep looking online but everything looks like it is made for an 80 year olds cottage in the middle of the woods - why would they be getting mail anyway?? i guess i dont really know what im looking for....
where the time stamp is actually like an hour later than the actual time. weirdo :)
i can't believe you're going to hawaii!!! i'm still so jealous :)
i had a big greasy breakfast this morning - scrambled eggs and bacon from across the street, so i probably won't be hungry for lunch till much later. you can just leave me the check when you go home tonight to drop off your stuff. i didn't try going to nysc - there's no point in trying to go without any keys at all. i'm just going to stick to ballys :)
well, to me. i was sitting at my desk thinking about how i could waste time . . .and then i realize i have a brand new ipod sitting in front of me that does more than play music! so, i started exploring . . . and found the games. eaverything was silly except . . . the music quiz! this last game, i got 10 out of 10 right! ok, sometimes its in spanish and i just pick out whatever title is in spanish . . there is a lot of spanish music on this thing!
just wanted to share :)
i think i'll go eat lunch . .
hopefully it'll be an early night, though. i also want to go to the gym and to the grocery store after work, so i don't know if i'll have time to do everything i want to do. . .
nush - jackie postponed the happy hour at our place with all her co-workers till next thursday. poor jackie - she's going to be alone all weekend again. well, i guess not completely alone - her aunt is coming up from miami to go shopping, so jackie will have company during the day (she's staying in a hotel).
i'm still tired too! and i spent a lot of the morning paying off some bills. writing out a check for my student loans always puts me in a bad mood! blah.
tuesdays are normally my crazy day and our morning meeting (the one with jules and 20 other people) was cancelled. my afternoon with the guy that i really don't like from work (my old officemate) was ALSO cancelled.
woo hoo!!
i totally forgot you were leaving on thurs!
good thing we all hung out in rochester all weekend so i got my fill of julie and rupa time too :) jules are you still going to lotus tonight? i need to go home to get rid of this heavy bag but i think ill go back to devs tonight...
im still tired :(
so did you give ekta your number? did she wish you a happy birthday?? she is nuts. what else did she talk to you about?
rupa brought me coffee from desrad's new expensive (and already broken) espresso machine. it was still good, though :) too bad the frother is broken. . .
it's so crappy and rainy out. and i can't believe i'm going home on thursday! i can't wait to see my family :) maybe i can convince my mommy to take me shopping. . .
d.e.shaw hasn't kidnapped us :) at least not yet. i slept in too this morning after holden's thing.. and then was a little busy this morning. jules might still be ordering a bday cake for her favorite officemate (cari 2).
not much going on here.. i didn't really work much yesterday so today i'm playing catch up. happy tuesday :)
just didnt have a response to ekta cause ive always thought she was nuts, and figured you guys knew that :)
i signed online to see if jessie was around and then someone came to talk to me, so i got distracted. i look back at my computer and ekta has imed me. someone has sent her a text but blocked the number so she is quizzing me as to whether i've sent her my number and/or changed it recently and/or have cingular. THEN she asked me about nush and rupa. she never told me what the text said, i never asked. i was just so annoyed that she thinks one of us is going through the effort to send her some text and block the number and otherwise not identify ourselves! i'm assuming it wasn't anything bad - i would guess she wouldn't assume it was me had it been - but still! freaking annoying.
i had a wonderful night :) unfortunately i was at work till 615, and dev told me around 530 that he was going to work all night so we prob wouldnt get to hang out. i was sad cause all i wanted was to lay down and hug him and now he was telling me i wasnt even going to see him! but then at 6 he called and was like why dont we have dinner then we can hang out for an hour and ill come back to work...which i also wasnt excited about cause the thought of sitting at a restaurant didnt seem possible to me - i thought id just fall asleep while i was walking...
anyway we had a good dinner (bad food, but good compnay) then went back to his apt around 745, took a nap till 930, he got up to go to the office to get some work done, i was too lazy to go all the way home, so i just slept...he got back at midnight, we talked a bit (i think seattle next summer is a very possible scenario...) then went to sleep. he got up at 630 to go to some stupid meeting in nj (hence the moving to seattle soon cause this job is getting ridiculous...) i went back to sleep, got up at 8, showered (jules - they cleaned the bathroom), wore my new HM shirt, and was here by 830!
i think i may stay there again tonigth cause wednesday he leaves for atlanta....and i like being able to roll out of bed and be at work....
jules - im meeting rakesh for lunch around noon - do you want to meet up and i can give you the check now?
ok back to work...
i don't think i like the headphones that come with the ipod . . . i feel like my ears are getting stretched funny! i think i have another set of headphones at home that i'll switch to . . .
whenever your ipod freezes (which shouldn't happen too often), just hold down the play/pause and the menu buttons at the same time. after a little bit, the ipod will reset.
i decided to let myself sleep in a little bit today, so i woke up at 8 instead of 7. whoo-pee! i'm still a bit tired. holden's stand up comedy thing was allright yesterday. not too exciting - i guess open-mic night must be tough.
megan - how's the ipod doing?
how is everyone else this morning?
but it killed my battery fixing it! oh, wait . . . the battery just got more full . . . hmm . . . interesting . . .
leaving early for me means that i'm just leaving now. or, not now really. more like in 20/30 mins. and then i have to go to holden's stand up comedy thing tonight. i dont want to be social this week!
i would LOVE to drink soda instead of coffee here. buuut . . . THEY ONLY SELL COKE PRODUCTS! as far as i can tell, there is no mountain dew to be had anywhere in the entire hospital complex!!!!!!!!
chris vu singing u remind me just came up on my ipod :) i'm blaring it and dancing along. too bad i don't have an office and anyone can see me :)
i think thats a better adjective :)
i just went out and bought a salad, and as soon as i got back, there was tons of food in the conference room!! so i just had a sandwich instead and will eat my salad tomorrow....
dev is back, but now i dont have time to take a nap at his place....i finished my venti coffee and have moved on to diet coke - coke def keeps me more awake than coffee...
you guys are silly :)
why did my computer kill rupa's music?! it liked my ipod . . . i've been listening to it all morning. . . music that is obviously julie's and obviously mine have been playing - so it didn't ruin anything on it . . .
i didn't mean to kill rupa's music :(
skolnik, defeo. . .are you just trying to get back at me for calling you mrs. metzger a few days ago??? ;)
nush - the title in that last blog scared me! please don't even joke about me marrying alex someday!
poor alex - at least he doesn't have a hispanic fetish, right?
so, at noon i think i'm going to go to rupa's office and put my head down on her desk for a little. doesn't that sound like a good way to spend my lunch time? i can't put my head down in my office cause my officemate is loud. . .
i just pointed out to him that when he takes minutes (which im editing now) he should use Ms. instead of Mrs. cause he doesnt know if these people are married, and i have been telling him this for the last 3 months! and every time he puts Mrs. and thinks thats what i told him to write...
anyway, then the conversation was me telling him that monica's sister in lawdidnt take her husbands name, and he asked how i knew that and i said well she is married to monica ho's brother and her last name is wang. and he goes "well makes sense why would she want Ho as a last name"
then he goes, i can never marry a hispanic girl, we make fun of his last name a lot around here cause he always likes to talk about going to costa rica and then we all make fun of what the customs officers must think when they see his last name...
so no Mrs. Juliana DeFeo.....
which means i can't listen to music cause there aren't any open outlets close to my desk. sad :( but meg - i'm glad you liked it too! seriously, ipods are the best things ever. everyone should have one :)
i'm tired. rupa went home cause she wasn't feeling well. i had a good meeting with my boss :) i think i might try going home around 4. that sounds like a reasonable time, right?
for some reason your computer ate all of rupas music!!! she got on the plane and tried listening, and there was nothing!!! hopefully she can fix it soon....
which means we have none of your music :) which means you have to come to NYC to give it to us :) edgar keeps offering! take him up on the offer you silly girl!! (granted im not free for a lonnng time...)
lab meeting went fine. it was short today because everyone was late and the room was scheduled right after us - so we couldn't stay. I was on time - which is why i didn't get a chance to hit dunkin donuts. i settled for the coffee stand instead. we had bagels AND one of the women made coffee cake for a guy that's getting married so i ate A LOT. and now i feel like ass.
AND to make matters worse - i want to talk to eun about what to do this week, to stop just repeating the same thing over and over again and instead attack it at a different angle to perfect the problems. so, one of my ideas is to stratigcally vary the lengths of times - but not stain with all of the different colors because its the stains that cost money. but, i don't know how many different times i should try and i don't know if that will make a huge difference. so, i stopped her after the meeting and was like can we talk and figure out what i should do this week? yeah, she has scheduled herself until at least 3, possibly even later. so, she'll call this afternoon if she finds out she is going to be later than 3 and we'll meet tomorrow. so, i think i'm just going to play on my computer and hopefully find some relavent info to fix up my experiment.
oh, and i'm listening to tracy chapman fast car right now. this ipod is UNQESTIONABLY the happiness of the day :) :) :)
i feel the same way...i was happy with my bagel and starbucks...but now i just want to sleep...
the good news is, it doesnt look like it will be that long of a day - our email is supposed to go out at 3, and allen said he has to leave at 330, so im def gonna leave around 5 :)
i wish dev were here so i could go take a nap with him at lunchtime...
he and i are supposed to go to dinner and hang out, i hope he wont mind hanging out with our eyes closed and under the covers :)
megan - where are you?? how was the morning meeting?
no sleep is making me sick... my food that helped didn't sit in my stomach too long... now i'm really going home. will be online and working later.
good luck with your days, all of you!! mwah
argh...
i feel the same. i thought food would help.. and it did until about 9am :) and now i'm over my high... i may go nap and then work from home. i wish i had a couch in here.. or a bed.. or even just a blanket.
hey all... good luck surviving work today! i'm glad we had so much time together this weekend... i wuv you guys :)
looks like everyone's either in a bad mood or busy :(
anways, i'm in a good mood again! having a free lunch with rupa and a bunch of co-workers cheered me right up again! now i'm just waiting for anusha so we can head over to the airport together :)
oooh - and i'm really looking forward to tonight. look at my horoscope for today:
"Prepare for extended periods of surprise followed by a very unpredictable evening. Not that you'll mind. You love adrenaline, and any event that brings it your way is most welcome. "
isn't that exciting??? megan, i'm going to need to buy two things as soon as i get to rochester: a. tampons. b. a can of redbull so i can party all night. don't get any funny ideas, the two items are completely unrelated to each other. wow, i feel wired. i need to get some sleep on this plane.
can't wait to see you megan!!!!
i went to pilates again :) i love my gay instructor. maybe he isnt gay... :)
i cant wait to leave!!!
happy birthday megan!
i had a fun night and a really good morning, but i just got my period! ARGHHHHH. not a good way to start the weekend.
meg - good luck with your experiment! i guess i'll go get free lunch now and hopefully that'll cheer me up
happy happy happy birthday!! :)
i'm so excited to see you (and all of you tonight).
my dad is now a volunteer for the Kerry campaign (how crazy!). he just called me from the kerry speech in philly and the rally. he seems really excited.
jules and i just had our real meeting. another meeting now.. talk to you soon!
i kept getting woken up! i would hit the pillow, fall asleep, and something else would wake me up. i think my longest interval of sleep last night was 4 hours. so, now i'm tired and moody :(
off to see whether my third attempt at the same experiment worked.
I cant wait to see you!
I went to the gym this morning, I may go to pilates if i get bored around lunchtime...I think remembering that i have to wear a bikini in 2 weeks is starting to kick in :)
rupa - dev cant go next week, so ill go ahead and buy tickets for you and me for october 13, ok?
nush
Im off...im gonna go to devs till he leaves at 6, then take the train home and just study and pack tonight :)
i wish i sat at my desk more :) then i could write more often. i missed a whole day! megan- i'm so psyched to see you.. nush- i'd be happy to do ave q next week but tuesday or wednesday is the only thing that works. otherwise make him come in oct! (otherwise just us two could go.. but i know you want him to go).
jules i like the hair dyeing idea.. you could always go back to highlights in a few months.. but it might be nice to just have maintenance free hair for a while! do any of you have pictures of megan in the cap or with highlights?
i want to see :) i miss netflix.. i used to have it in boston and watched tons of movies- they had indian movies too! but now i am never home to outgrow the millions of movies i have on demand... so i never bother with netflix.
my last update didn't show up yet so i might have done something wrong- i was saying that the train is really fast- so we should take that to JFK- the trains to jamaica come often- and then it's only 5 minutes to JFK on the airtrain. i got good at it with megan :) and when I went to miami. i would love to use it again!
i guess we aren't doing BP tonight? what's a good night next week? i went there for lunch today on a lunch meeting.. we have to take advantage before it gets warm ;)
bye bye!
you can send them back...i dont have time to watch movies....
2 more months of hell, then 2 months off and it all starts again....
hi everyone :)
just wanted to say hi. still need to read all that i missed today (and yesterday) but i haven't had a chance to read it all.
the train sounds good tomorrow (i'd prefer that to the E)- unless we have to wait long at penn station, it's really fast and much cleaner than the E :)
let me know what you want to do. yay!! can't wait to see you guys.
rups
not the joys of netflix. i'm a retard :)
but speaking of netflix: i also have brother bear sitting at home! i love getting movies i'd never watch in theaters.
i could really care less about the show, so it's all good. i got barbershop2 from netflix the other day. so funny :) it's nice to watch something mindless once in a while. and anusha, it has a hot black guy in it! do you want to see it? or should i send it back?
those are the movies i'm getting right now through netflix. disc 1 should be in my mailbox tonight, disc 2 tomorrow, and disc 3 as soon as edgar sends back the passions of christ (which i loaned to his mom - i never even finished it because it interested me so little . . . i've concluded i really have to like a movie to read subtitles) didn't know whether i should have them around this weekend in case anyone is board or if i should start watching them tonight :)
i guess it's a good thing he's married to my mom, since she's reasonable and keeps him grounded :) my bro and i just encourage his craziness. what he likes about the food truck is that he could work only the breakfast and lunch hours, then wrap up at two and just spend time on his photography.
and i never saw the first season of 24, so i def didn't see the 2nd. . .
the subway all the way there take like an hour and 15..or the train to jamaica and then airtran takes like 45. if we leave at 6 we can just take the E all the way out there...
we started to get the second season of 24 through netflix, but i couldnt handle watching 23 hours of it by myself! and i think i only enjoyed it cause it meant we were hiding from cleaning/singing at aphi....the problem with netflx is julie and i never watch movies together! our timings are always off, she is home the one day im not, and im just boring....so no more movies for me...
julie - your dad acts our age :) he gets these ideas in his head . . . a food truck in nyc?! nuts.
and NO. i am not putting on that cap and no giving me highlights. i like my hair the color it is. i was supposed to schedule a hair appointment with this woman from work and i completely didn't. it probably was a good thing since i don't know when i would have been able to go this week . . . but other than a haircut, no funny business with my hair!
did you guys ever see the 2nd season of 24?
i think i'd rather take the train - taking a cab at that time means we could be stuck in traffic for a while. also, it's pretty easy to get to JFK. i think if we leave at 6pm we should be fine. thoughts?
see you at home!
i have a meeting from 3-5 then im gonna try to leave...
what time do you think we need to leave for the airport tomorrow? do you want to cab it or take the train? im fine with either....flight is at 8....
i'd rather go to the gym; i need to burn off all the fatty chinese food i just ate! do you mind? we can do it next week. . .
but jules if you still want to meet at 6, we can have one drink, then go home? its soooo nice out!
let me know...
megan - i'm glad you decided hanging out with jessie was more important. tell her i say happy birthday!
i just had lunch with anusha. i love randmoly taking off for an hour and hanging out with my friends. it makes the rest of the day go by so much faster. we sat outside in the sun and chatted for a while. even though i live with anusha, i definitely see her more outside of work!
and then this morning i had my coffee hour with rupa (i was literally at her office for almost an hour this morning)! they got a new espresso machine on her floor, so we used it for the very first time today. we were a little slow at it, but it sure beats paying $4 bucks at starbucks!
oooooh - and i chatted with my dad on the phone while i walked over to meet anusha. you guys know what he told me? he wants to move to nyc! so the business hasn't been doing so well, and they've been thinking of closing. my dad wants to move up here and open up a little food truck, selling cuban coffee and cuban and colombian goodies for breakfast, then cuban sandwhiches and stuff for lunch. all pretty easy stuff, nothing too difficult. i would be sooo happy if my parents moved here! then i'd get to see them a few times a week! it's still a pretty far-fetched idea, though. he's mentioned it to my mom a couple of times, but she thinks he's joking. my mom definitely doesn't want to work anymore - especially not at a food cart. i hope my dad can convince her. . . how much fun would that be?!?!
i cant wait :)
im in a good mood...
jules and i just met for lunch, she confirmed that im not asking too much of my boyfriend and that he is just an idiot...who unfortunately im still in love with so will have to "stomp" more i guess....
and on my walk back i ran into my grandfathers next door neighbor from india!!! how weird!!! it was nice, i stopped, said hi, they were surprised to see me :) now im back, have a big meeting at 5, then im going to devs apt to hang out with him him till he leaves for stl...
jules, i will prob be with him till 6, is it ok to meet then? im gonna call ellen soon to see what time she can meet...if its late, i may just postpone again, and maybe we can go next week...
megan - want to wear a cap and have julie and i give you highlights again this weekend? :)
but i'm going to leave again. i decided instead of hanging out in the library, i should hang out with my best friend on her birthday :) we went and bought a vacuum (her mom's present to her) then went out to lunch. and the waitor's birthday is tomorrow! so, he gave us free cheesecake. now, i need to finish my experiment. which is basically the same thing i did on tuesday and the tuesday before that. so far, it has never gone smoothly. last tuesday i was here until 3 am because i didn't really do the math on how long it would take and this tuesday i was using a different chemicals which caused other problems and then i threw away my cells and was here until 7:30 at night. tonight, my goal is to start in 20 minutes and be done by 6:30. it may not happen. buuut . . . the girls are out of the lab until 4ish - so i will not have anyone chatting with me to distract me. soo . . . maybe :) tonight, i'm hanging out with edgar. he gave me my birthday present yesterday because he was excited - he got me tickets to stomp :) they are 7th row and next to the aisle, apparently the people come down into the audience and sit in the actual aisle seat and do stuff so he said i have to sit in the seat next to that. his little face lit up when he gave them to me :) i love him :) ok, off to set up so i don't waste time today!!!!!!!!!
oh, and julie . . . love the apples/wine thing :)
sure, i can meet you for lunch. i have to buy food. do you know if ameya is free? is dev having lunch with us, too?
sure, i can meet you for lunch. i have to buy food. do you know if ameya is free? is dev having lunch with us, too?
Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy....... The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
Now Men.... Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
jules, what are you doing? want to meet outside ameyas office and eat there? i brought food, but i can bring it and eat outside with you?
oh come on, be nice :)
i think im gonna leave work at 5 today and try to meet up with dev before he leaves for the airport, then just study till people are ready to meet. rupa - are you alive? and dev said for us to just go ahead and see ave q by ourselves, unless you wanted to go this coming monday or tues? let me know...and do you want to get tickets or should i? if you dont respond to blogs all day, ill just call you in a bit...
"my fav quote was two thinks guys cant hide, that they are drunk and that they are inlove"
ok, so i guess it's not _that_ bad, but the word "thinks" really threw me off! i had to read it like 3 times to figure out what you were trying to say. [great, now i feel like i need to be extra careful with my typing since i just made fun of you]
how do you get from the gym to your desk so fast?? whenever i work out in the morning, it takes me forever to get ready.
anyways, i can still go to bryant park today but only if we don't go too late. i want to go to the gym after work since i haven't gone all week. and then after the gym is when i'm going home and dying my hair. if not, i don't mind if you guys go without me. i need to save whatever little spending money i have to party it up in Rochester this weekend :)
i need to stop going to miami so frequently. i've been trying to figure out where all my money disappears to, and i guess paying for my flights home is a pretty big drain. . .
i have so much to tell you guys and its only 930.
hair: jules - we are still going to bryant park before you do this right??? i just want to see what its like for at least one drink! let me know....but my real hair comment was that there was a lady ont he subway this morning that had hair extensions that were literally inches off the floor when she was standing!!! how gross!!!
dogs: jules, i think i saw two of the dogs you claimed the original couch color was today :)
i had a really good work out this morning - 45 min on elitical without stopping! i never do that! but glamour was interesting today...my fav quote was two thinks guys cant hide, that they are drunk and that they are inlove - everything else they do a damn good job hiding!
then 200 situps, and it takes me exactly 1 hour from the gym to my desk - and i even shaved and got dressed up today :)
i bought my victoria secret stuff yesterday...im excited :) i paid an extra 5 bucks for 3 day shipping so it gets here on wed, and then i shipped it to ct cause there is no sales tax on clothing there :)
happy birthday jessie and chike :) not that either of them will see this but thought id post it for the record....
i love the weather report! i'm so excited :)
meg, i want dunkin donuts too! there were two dd's close to my work which they closed a while ago. so sad. now my only options are overpriced starbucks (which i dont' think i can buy till after i get paid at the end of the month. . .) and the street coffee vendor. i love my street coffee vendor, but he just doesn't live up to dd.
so i think i'm going to dye my hair today. it's time for me to re-do my highlights, but i've decided i should stop throwing money away on my hair, at least for a few months. so i'm going to go back to a light brown/dirty blonde. jackie and i are going to duane reade tonight to pick up a box of the do-it-yourself stuff. say byebye to blonde julie. sad, huh? i conviced jackie to dye her hair black, too :) megan, remember when you let us give you highlights??? haha - you looked so funny in that cap.
so, i keep checking the weather for this weekend . . . we are up to 80s on friday, 70s on saturday and 60s on sunday - with only a few showers expected in the am of saturday! (in case you weren't sure - that's good news)
and yes - the time stamp is accurate. it is barely 8:00am and i am here. in fact, i've been here since 7:15. i don't do the next step until 9:30, though, and there is barely any prep time for it sooo . . . there is a dunkin donuts 2 blocks away that is CALLING MY NAME! i think a small coffee and a bagel with cream cheese . . .
and you're right - it's so far away, there's no point in worrying about it now. have fun tonight!
thats what i needed in reaction to this (julie called and was like geez he makes me frustrated:)
anyway its a long way away...after hawaii im sure it wont seem so bad...
dev and i were going to go to seattle for his bday (he was going to be there for 2 weeks and his bday is one of those weekends in october) and now, the cardinals will be in the playoffs around then, so he just cancelled his trip, is going home the weekend after hawaii and staying for a week (including his bday...) and then going to seattle straight from there for two weeks and wont be back till the second week of november.
he tells me this last night, and then is like so when are you comign to seattle now - and i was only going cause its his bday, and i dont want to be planning weekend trips just a month before the exam, and when i told him that he got mad that i wasnt coming - but he complains so much about travelling here and having to always pack for like 3 weeks, and that he is missing the first week of playoffs cause of hawaii - and now that im not going to seattle - when he changed the weekend!
im so frustrated, and i dont even want to get him anything for his bday. do i have to? he wont even be here for the week before and 3 weeks later? and he thinks birthdays are stupid anyway....
i thought writing this and venting would make me not so frustrated but it didnt really work....maybe i want a big bottle of that wine all to myself :)
taco bell is not fast food, its staple food - very different :)
wendys sounds good...maybe next week...
the severence thing will never happen - dont get your hopes up :)
megan - have you read the notebook? did you like it? did you see the movie? i saw the movie and really liked it, so i think i might want to read the book
nush - your trip is in my calendar so i'll never have to ask again. and taco bell is fast food! if you want to meet for lunch sometime, there's a wendy's right by ameya's building. . .
and nush - you can't leave boa! how would you ever live without alex? and without lauren? and then you wouldn't be across the street from chirag anymore! hmm. . .i guess something like a year's pay could be worth it. . .
that would be pretty sweet. a whole year's worth of salary . . . just in time for you to quite working for 2 months to just study for your test :)
i wouldnt go...i would just a severence package for having to find a new job :)
it prob wont happen....just a fun thought to think about
torals boyfriend got laid off when there was a merger in his company and he got something like an entire years salary to compensate, and he had already found a new job within a week :)
i may look in to his group and see if they are looking...it may be fun...
after i read your message and posted mine . . . i realized that the title said "boston" meaning that's probably where you are being moved to :) oops :)
if they ask you to move, where do you move to???
what if they move you to the middle of no where?! or . . . down south??!!!!!
they are moving the head of my group (to put it in perspective for at least julie: allens boss is larry, larrys boss is this guy keith) keith to boston, and his entire group....
we dont really know what that means for us, but allen is pretty confident the 7 of us wont have to move - but everyone else may have to...but if they ask you to move and you dont want to i think you get a pretty hefty severance package and then just have to look for a job....
i hope they ask me to move!! :)
(on a side note - i feel like metz in the way i spelled spent in my last blog....sorry!!!!)
ive still been craving it...taco bell doesnt count as fast food for me - i want mcdonalds or wendys...wendys has some tempting commercials on tv these days...or maybe they always did and now i just watch tv :)
my victoria secret order (with two shirts toral wanted) totals 249, and if you sepdn 250 you get 75 bucks off!! how annoying! the worst part is i have to buy something for like 10 or 15 just to get the 75 off....and i dont know how to narrow things down....
i think ill order it tonight and pay an extra 5 for 3 day delivery so it def comes by the time i go to hawaii.
nights in rodanthe by nicholas sparks. he's the guy that wrote the notebook. its not that good jessie borrowed it from one of her friends from the 'tard farm
looks like the anusha, jackie & julie hotel on sullivan is filling up rather quickly. gabe and natalia are coming to visit the weekend of oct 9th! :) jorge might come with them too. dude - i'm booked for the next month and a half or so! i love having people come visit. i just hate having to plan things so far in advance.
nush - is this still the weekend you're in hawaii? for some reason, i'm incapable of remembering the dates of your trip.
just had an awesome lunch. i re-discovered a wendy's that's really close to our building (on 47th & 6th ave), so i went there with matt and grant. i had chicken nuggets and a baked potato - all for just $2.69 (apparently, the "dollar menu" is a little more than a dollar in midtown). so we grabbed food, then went to this outdoor dining patio and ate while a live band played salsa and a bunch of people were dancing. it was so much fun! now i wanna go salsa dancing, too. . .
nush - i'm so glad you liked the pilates class! really, it's all about the instructor. i'm really looking forward to doing it again today.
meg - what are you reading?
and just to keep you guys updated: i'm feeling a lot better now than i did this morn. my throat only hurts a tiny bit. hopefully i'll feel like new after 8 hrs of sleep tonight :)
i saw signs for it!
i need to visit nyc more often :(
i can't wait to quit the second job . . .
i love them.
the pilates instructor was gay - and amazing!! and just like kieron :) he teaches there wed and fri at 1215 (there is 52nd and broadway - i love working midtown with all these gym options!!)
jules is right - hugh jackman isnt in it anymore :( it was the boy from oz. on the closing night him and matt damon (who was sitting front row) gave barbara walters (also in the front row, not with matt) a lap dance :) she was quoted saying, who ever said dreams dont come true...
i read that in one of the old people magazines in our apt :) fyi - our apt is like a good doctors office - all old magazines, but good in the sense that its all girly fun stuff, not crap you find in doctors offices....
avenue q won the best musical award this year and i have been dying to see it. it is a puppet show :)
im eating leftover chicken teriyaki from what i made the other night - its good!
so, in 45 minutes i need to start doing stuff again. until that time, i'm on my own. i think . . . i just don't want to think. i have a mediocre book that i'm thinking of just chilling out and reading. actually, i should go find flu first . . . then chill out. maybe go to the library to read. ok, that's my new plan. time to find flu :)
meg - you still have 2 whole days to clean your apt before we get there. you have no excuses for having a messy apt!
i haven't seen the play with hugh jackman. i heard that he wasn't going to be in it for much longer, although i could be making this up.
arghhhh - i don't want to get sick! i'm going to take extra good care of myself for the next couple of days.
last night was all right. we ended up going to suite 16 instead. when we go to lotus, the door man said we were on the reduced list, not on the comp list. i wasn't going to pay $10 cover to get into the club - i don't care how great it's supposed to be on tues nights. so we walked over to suite 16 which is really close. jackie's friend from school, josh, was supposed to be promoting there. only problem was, josh wasnt' there yet and the doorman was a dick and wouldn't let us in for free, either. he said he'd give us 'reduced' admission, which meant we got to pay $15 instead of $20. so jackie and i went to the bar two doors down to have a beer and wait for josh to get there. we ended up having like 3 beers, making friends with the nice argentinian bartender, and taking a couple of shots. (making friends with the bartender meant we only had to pay for 2 of our beers, everything else was complimentary).
so then josh and his friend, anthony got there and we went to suite 16. we were in there for like 45 mins. by that time it was almost 2am and jacks and i had set our curfew at 1:30. anthony is this guy that jackie keeps telling me is really hot. i wasn't so excited with him, though. i mean, he's cute, but i guess i just got this vibe that he thinks he's the shit, and i don't like that. anyways, i was home and in bed by like 2:15. not a bad night. didn't spend too much money on cabs or antyhing since i love my new neighborhood :)
meg - good luck with your experiment! nush- hope you're enjoying pilates. if i dont feel like shit, i'm doing my most favorite pilates and step aerobics classes today :)
i decided i didn't need to be here early this morning. i messed up stuff last night and was frustrated - so instead, i scheduled breakfast with jessie this morning at 8:30. last night was the first time we were both awake in the same place since saturday morning. we watched mean girls together - i didn't really like it. now, i'm getting ready to do the experiment again. i feel tired, even though i've gotten enough sleep lately. i just need a break! (hope no one was planning on getting up too too early on saturday)
no getting sick.
i am turning 23 :) i'm the baby of the group!
what is avenue q? and have you guys seen or thought of seeing the play hugh jackman is in?! i really want to see it - i have no idea what it's about but i love him :)
just to give you a heads up - the apartment may be messy. it's at it's all time messiest right now, so potentially i could get motivated tonight - but if i decide i'm tired and don't want to - i'm not going to :) neither jessie nor i has been home and relaxed a whole lot in the last week, and the apartment is starting to reflect that.
ok, that's it. for now.
is coming up so soon :) yay. megan are you turning 24? or 23?
i think i'm getting sick too.. actually katy is out sick today so maybe we all got sick from being there :) jules- how was lotus? did you guys get a bottle, etc?
i hope we are all feeling good again by friday :)
i'll be in philly too for that saturday- it's a big religious day for us. but i'll be around the rest of the weekend :)
thats exciting about your brother :) ill be in philly i think that sat, and that may be the weekend my cousin is here too...we shall see...he cancelled on me last min last year when he was supposed to come...
i think im gonna go to pilates at 1215 today. then after work dev and i are going to dinner and ill stay over at his place.
i forgot to measure myself last night :( i think i may call them and ask what size they think i would be....
nush, i was NOT sleeping at 9:24. i'll have you know i woke up at 9:15 this morn ;) i'm not feeling so well. and no, it's not cause i had too much fun last night. i didn't drink too much and didn't stay out too late. my throat just feels really icky. i can't get sick for this weekend! meg, will ryan think i'm hot even if i'm sneezing all over him???
did i tell you guys my bro and his girlfriend are coming to visit?? they called me yesterday to inform me that they already bought tickets. they'll be here from oct 15-18, so if any of you are around, feel free to join us for a fun weekend :)
ok, time to do some work. i can't get sick, i can't get sick, i can't get sick, i can't get sick.
think my body is punishing me for all the alcohol and sleep deprivation i put it through?
ok :) let me talk to dev tonight when i have dinner with him. i started writing an email telling him we were going that day but i think its better to just ask him if he wants to come in person, then we can buy tickets tomorrow :)
if that doesnt work for him, does oct 19 work?
this is exciting!!!!! i cant wait!!!! so many fun things happening...
jules - remind me to grab raynas tape from the living room so we can all watch it this weekend
hi!! so sorry that i disappeared yesterday :) i was a little busy. things are good here.. julie and i went to our co-workers place to watch her brother and sister play poker on tv.. and her bro and sis were there! her sister ended up winning the tournament and getting $2million! crazy :) it was fun.. and she has a very cute apt.
nush- lets do oct 13th :)
no blogs yet?? well jules is still sleeping....the rest of you??
rupa - if we are going to go to avenue Q, for the next few weeks these are the days im free:
Wed Sept 29
Thurs Sept 30
Then I leave for Hawaii....
Wed Oct 13
Thurs Oct 14
do any of those work for you?
katy's siblings, the famous poker players, were in ESPN's "Tournament of Champions". it's going to be aired tonight, so katy's having a little poker party at her place and her siblings might be there. i really want to go to that, so we cancelled the movie. then i'll go home, take a quick nap, and get ready to go clubbing tonight. we're going to lotus. it's supposed to be their signature night, so it should be a lot of fun. all i need is a couple of redbulls, and i'll be good to go . . .
i finally sent it out without getting everything from everyone i was sick of waiting...
how does she just disappear like that??
im tired too...and this stupid email still hasnt gone out! i hate that somehow i was deemed the responsible one who can compile all the files and send it out....
everyone should just send out their own crap! mine would have been out at 1130!!!!!
jules - you guys still going to the movie?
i think rakesh is coming with us to bryant park on thurs :) im going to meet him after work to ask him some random cfa question ive been having and then i told him id drag him out for a drink....
oh, the good old days when we used to drink an entire bottle of wine. somehow, that doesn't sound like such a great idea right now.
meg - that'd be great if can do the hotel thing on your own terms. way to demand what you're worth ;) i wish i could curl up next to you tonight and watch gilmore girls. don't worry, i'd let you have all the wine, though.
nush - your list of foods is pretty impressive. good job :) mind you - i write this as i pop a second hershey's kiss in my mouth. i bought a bag of the caramel hershey's the other day cause i wanted to try them out. they're pretty good.
allrighty girls, i'm officially EXHAUSTED. i might sleep in a little tomorrow. i can't function when i'm this tired!
"a" big bottle? i'm sorry, my english comprehension skills must be lacking . . . doesn't "a" imply only 1??? there are 4 of us . . . and 2 days + 3 nights that you guys will be here . . . i'm doing the math, and that just isn't adding up to just one bottle ;)
i could probably very easily do both. and interviews are during the week - so it would just make for long weekdays, still little to no weekends. buuut . . . i would through in all these kinks to the hotels plan. i will NOT wear a uniform. i am willing to wear a name tag and look nice (dress pants, polite shirt) but i will NOT wear a front desk uniform. furthermore, i will NOT work for $7 an hour (the average front desk pay) i will only be work like 10 hours a week, most likely, so they can afford to pay me more like $10 or $11 an hour or they don't really need me. if i'm going to get there by 6am 2 or 3 days a week - then are going to compensate me :)
so, jessie is working tonight and edgar is studying. i'm going to leave here around 6:30 and i'm going to go to the wine store and get a bottle of wine and watch gilmore girls by myself and mean girls and do laundry and drink an entire bottle of wine.
thats exciting megan! would you have to take time off of this one to do that, or could you do that also?
handful of nuts
1 cup Cheerios
1 glass skim milk
1 cup coffee
taco salad - beans, salsa, taco bell sauce
1/2 bag fritos
not horrible right????
so, i'm quitting one job after you guys leave (changs, obviously) but the head of sales at the hotel i used to work at emailed me last week - well, called twice and could reach me and then emailed - about the residency program at u of r. last year, the hotel convinced u of r to house all their interviewees at the hotel and we took care of getting them where they needed to go on time. more specifically, i took care of it. wake up calls, walk to their interview rooms, shaking hands with the program coordinators. so, she emailed me to just do that again this year. i emailed her back - not because i'm planning on picking up another job - but just to see how much they are offering :)
i took a couple hour break between 9:30 and 1:30. i got to go out to breakfast with edgar and then go for a walk through a park. now, i'm back and working on my cells. everything is going great so far . . . so i might actually be out of here at a reasonable hour. i need to be leaving here no later than 7:00 . . . i think i'll be our by 6 :) :) ok, maybe 6:30.
i just talked to my mom :)
she is having a good time, and im surprisingly surviving without her...
i told her that we didnt get to go to the outlet and that now i just want to put it off till she comes back and she can take me...she was excited
i cant wait - only a week and a half more till i get to see her!!
well megan prob could have said this, that im prob not gonna understand it anyway cause she wont be with me to watch it!!!
i agree on the no emails!! but i still check it in case, which is stupid - i need to get toral to just email my work address so i dont waste my time checking...then i can just check once a day or something....
i get absolutely no emails now that we all blog. it's kinda depressing to check my email - nobody loves me.
nush - i like the black top you just added. again, can't wait to borrow it :)
you should probably pay attention to last samurai if you want to know what's going on. i liked it.
this is exciting :) i cant wait to get all these new clothes...i added a new halter top that toral found (i was only looking at the sale stuff...didnt have enough time to go through everything...but im def going to look more tonight)
is the last samurai a serious movie? or can i shop during it? :)
i love my best friend:
dude...love the halter!!!!!!! i want one! let me know if you end upbuying this one, b/c if you don't i will be all over it...but you shouldget it in a small.The ruched long sleeve top-->med (soooo super cute by the way!! also,,so surprised that you chose this :) )Thick wool sweater-->small? (could prob do a medium too)backless cami-->small(def)Bra Top dress-->small???that's a great deal on all that stuff! a job well done...
yeah i dont love it, but i think its different and may be fun to wear since all my long sleeve shirts are boring and cotton...the whole free sending things back thing is exciting :)
i think ill wait to buy till tonight - go home measure my boobs and my waist :) see if dev likes anything else in the clearance section and then buy it...im waiting for torals opinion too
i like shopping online too - but im def looking forward to the mall on sat - i havent been to a mall in soooo long
ive been busy :( today is the day my silly email of all the documents for the due diligence meeting has to go out...its a pain in the ass getting all this together
nush, i just looked at the stuff you're thinking of getting. i really like the shiny halter. i can't wait to borrow it! ;) the blue sweater is really pretty, too. i liked everything except for the black long sleeve. shopping online is so much fun. i hate trying stuff on.
rupa and i had an excrutiatingly long and boring SG meeting, and i was looking forward to coming back to a great convo on the blog. but no, nothing. is everyone busy?
i've never ordered clothes from vicky's secret so i can't really help you out. .
small or medium? i think i should just measure my bust/waist and then decide....
if you want to look at the clothes im thinking about go to the website and sign in - anusha/tennis/10012 is the info to log in...
i sent back starsky and hutch and mystic river...
oh well, i guess getting drunk on david's money was a good reason to miss dinner. so rupa and i just ran into rick, the other desrad guy who had dinner with us, and we asked him to fill in the gaps from last night. apparently, rupa threw food at jonathan. we don't know why. looks like this is something she does whenever she's been drinking and jonathan annoys her.
nush - no hurry to send the last samurai back. i think jacks and i might keep paying for netflix, so you can just watch it whenever you get a chance. did you send starsky and hutch back already?
i usually dont check this that much as soon as i get here cause no one has written, and i was sick of it from 430 yesterday when everyone stopped too! but now i checked and so many updates already!!
i got here at 815, and my email isnt working, which is my excuse to not do anything. so i shopped at victoria secrets online - i like a few things - do you guys think id be a small or medium in their sweaters/tops? i decided that i should buy a lot of things and then just have dev ship whatever i dont like back cause he gets free shipping...
ive been waiting now for the IT guy to call me back since 815 - and he is the one that made me change all my settings yesterday for no reason!! god i hate our IT deparment....
i made dinner last night for jackie and dev :) the idea was to make it for everyone, but little miss drunk on a monday night didnt come home till after i was fast asleep...i made chicken teriyaki and broccoli. i really liked it :) and it only took like 30 min total in the kitchen....
i think ill pass on the movie tonight - i want to go home, study and maybe watch the last samurai with dev when he gets back from some random town in PA where he is for work today....
jules - is our netflix thing over?? do i have to send back last samurai soon so you dont get charged?
im fine with no cruise in dec with you guys...i havent figured it out but i still have 1.5 weeks off before the end of the year...i think ill take that week off after the exam and go home - and maybe my dad can take a day off and plan something fun, if not, after this hawaii trip dev and i were thinking of going somewhere then too - maybe he and i and rakesh and toral can go somewhere....
for $500 sounds great to me :)
but if you guys wanted to go in december, i wouldn't mind staying behind and sulking for a bit. . . i know nush deserves a break after all the studying she's been doing!
such a great movie! and gilmore girls - also great. i got to catch up on the season finale last friday at rupa's. dvr (kind of like tivo) is amazing. looks like i'll be missing the season premier tonight. rups, looks like i'm going to have to invite myself over to your place at some point to watch it. please don't erase it before i've had a chance to see it!
megan - none of your cell stuff makes sense to me, but have fun! or goodluck! or...whatever.. .
so, i've been checking up on these cruises . . . i say we hold off planning one for december and go later. if we wait a whole year, we can take a nice 7 day bermuda cruise leaving from boston for like $500 each! ooor . . . there are bermuda cruises that leave from nj, apparently very close to nyc because all the hotels they recommend are in nyc. or, we can take a cheapy 3 to 5 day caribbean next fall :) basically, just hold off on cruising until we can get the colombian on board :)
and the reason i'm finding these cruises for so cheap is i'm searching 4 people, one room, no window - hope everyone is ok with that :)
i didn't come in last night, that's why i'm here this morning. 16 hour stimulation, starting at 5:30 yesterday. but the catch! ah, the catch . . . 4 wells of cells need to be stimulation for 2 hours. so, for consistency purposes, they sit in their wells without extra stuff for 14 hours then have the extra stuff for the last 2. so, 14 hours after 5:30 - 7:30am. but its cool because i'm here early, and i'll be here all day . . . (after the 16 hours comes a 4 hour incubation time then staining which last time took me 5 hours) BUT i think i'll be done by - if not before - 7! which means i'll make it home in plenty of time for the gilmore girls season premiere! AND this is jessie's one night off before the weekend, so we can hang out, watch gilmore girls, and watch mean girls (which should be arriving today through netflix)
did you have to go in last night to play with your cells?
did you have to go in last night to play with your cells?
yep, i've been awake since like 5:30. for no reason at all, i just couldn't go back to sleep. soooo annoying. and i felt i shouldn't go to the gym since i drank for like 7 hours straight before going to bed. drinks and appetizers with a candidate started at 4:30. then we continued the celebration downtown, where rupa, jonathan, and another one of the guys in desrad decided to hold a business dinner :)
ok, the not sleeping is starting to get to me. and i'm not sleeping tonight either. we're going to the movie at 8, then i get to go home and have a couple of drinks before i go out with jackie and sabrina (her co-worker). boy, life is rough.
and i've already been here for half an hour. and i forgot to grab a granola bar :( i still have an apple for breakfast, but still! PLUS i def spaced on thinking about cash - i only have $2.50 in my wallet . . . so, no convenience store splurges when being here for 12-ish hours straight starts getting to me. but! it all works out in the end . . . being here a long time means i can leave early on thursday and friday (thursday to hang out with edgar and friday to get ready for you guys)
dude... $199 sounds good! (600 800 is a little out of the cheap range for me :) )
dude... $199 sounds good! (600 800 is a little out of the cheap range for me :) )
im going to write down everything i eat...so far it doesnt seem so bad....lets see how things go as the week progresses....
megan - if you keep looking, make sure you only look at things for any time after dec 5!!! the exam is all day on the 4th...
rupa - i dont want to stay long either - one drink, maybe two! def not a repeat of last thurs! i was hurting all weekend...and i def dont want to be like that...at least not till monday morning when i get to work :)
dude, early december cruises - not including airfare - 3 or 4 days in a lower interior room - $199 a person!
you girls are the greatest :)
hopefully in a couple of months i'll be able to rack up enough points on my corporate amex so that should be able to pay for a flight to colombia. my brother and his girlfriend are thinking of going for easter, so maybe i'll do that instead. i think i'll just spend xmas and new years at home with my bro, aunts, and cousins. can't afford a cheap cruise either :( although you guys are more than welcome to join me in mia!
i second that idea!!! if not for new years, earlier in dec...i cant take off around xmas, but after the exam on the 4th i want to do something!!! they can be as cheap as like 600 bucks for that short, everything included.....and even 800 for a whole week cruise!!
it is very sad you can't go to colombia :(
but maybe that should be a goal for yourself! its a reason to save money! if you start saving a little bit a week from now until a year and a half from now or something, then you can buy yourself a ticket!
(speaking as the other one of us who is broke - it's mantras like that that have kept me going for the last year . . . )
Girls: ":(
thats sad about colombia! your dad should let you use the mileage from his card to go somewhere...even if they dont want to go to europe - you can! "
I just noticed by accident that you can "reply" by selecting the text or the entry that you are responding too and then clicking on blogthis. It will quote what you selected. I think it's funny b/c I always randomly select and deselect while I'm reading. Thursday isn't so good for me for Bryant Park, but it's fine. I just won't stay too long :)
If we are all around and not busy for New Years, anyone want to do something fun and random? We might be able to get a cheap flight somewhere... or we might be able to roadtrip it somewhere. It would be fun to do something random on New Years with just us... :)
thats sad about colombia! your dad should let you use the mileage from his card to go somewhere...even if they dont want to go to europe - you can!
the tickets were way too expensive, so my mother convinced me that i should be practical and stop abusing my credit card. sad. i need a sugar daddy. or sugar mamma. money sucks.
i'm fine with doing bryant park on thurs.
right after i wrote the im hungry, i had a 2 horu meeting!!!
i just met dev for lunch - i made him buy my lunch cause he made me go all the way over to his office (its only a 2 minute walk but still....)
jules - if im productive tonight i think ill try to come with you guys tomorrow...we shall see...
can we push the bryant park thing to thurs? dev is leaving for STL on Thurs, so we are gonna go out to dinner wednesday (and ellen is only free thurs anyway....)
you had told me about it! and actually - you weren't the first! a radio show host was talking about it before that . . . i looked it up to go see it but it's already left the theater in rochester :( so, looks like i'm waiting until video . . . (it's already on my netflix list :) )
i know nyc isn't the only city in the world. how about miami? duh!
boys that don't like eating off the bone are pansies. my bro and my dad love wings. peter likes wings. how can you not like wings??
i just got back from a very nice lunch with some of my fellow co-workers. rupa, grant, jonathan, and i went to subway, then we took our subs and sat in bryant park. it's so nice and sunny out! then tonight i have that pilates class that i loved last week. yay for working out my abs! and then tomorrow night we're going to watch that colombian movie i've really wanted to see, maria full of grace. have i told you about it, megan? it's about a 17 year old colombian girl who agrees to be a drug mule. she has to swallow like 60 huge capsules full of cocaine and bring them to nyc. all for just $5000. sad, huh? my dad saw it a couple of weeks ago and said it was really good. you and edgar should go see it!
i'm in such a good mood :) amazing what getting out of the office for a while can do to you.
im hungry and its only 1145...
but ive been up since 545...shouldnt i have had 2 meals by now???
edgar hates eating off the bone too! i don't get it . .
he is fine that you guys are stealing me for the weekend :) in fact, he originally had friday night off and he said he didn't want to do dinner with us because he wanted to give us ample time to hang out and that he knew it would be different if he was there.
actually, our roles have been reversed! i'm cleaning out my life and giving myself time to relax - and he's getting busy. i had all sunday morning to hang out with him (until 5:30 when i had to work) and he studied all day. in fact, jess was at work so he could have come over to the apartment but since he added a class late, he was playing catch up (which he did) i think we get to hang out tonight. there is a rochester food festival tonight at the public market - 1. i love things like food festivals - you get to try a little bit of everything 2. i've never been to the public market. i know it won't be the same as the weekends (its a big fish/farmer's market) but at least i'd get to see it. and if i need to come in tonight to the lab, i think it will just be for like 20 minutes. which is what i said last week at this time, and was here for 2 hours. but this week, i know i can get in and i'm more confident in my ability! so maybe it WILL only be 20 mintues :)
i would break up with any boy that made me not like wings and doritos!!! i think dev knows that, so he doesnt even touch that topic :) although i know him well enough too that i stopped asking for wings when we are out together...on the wings, we compromise and get chicken fingers or something with buffalo sauce - he just doesnt like eating off the bone...
in my mind nyc is def not the only city there is.
speaking of, i think i may go to seattle next summer...to try it out...that was the latest conversation dev and i had friday night at taco bell. i was asking how id get my car there, how id find an apt, etc etc...and he was like well if you go with me, they will pay to ship the car, and i was like that sounds good...but i cant go till at least next summer etc etc...and he was like well it looks like im not going in dec, and if you def would go in the summer then id think about waiting it out so we could go together...
weird.
bryant park is a park near times sq, there is apparently a really fun outside bar there that we had been meaning to go to all summer and never got around to it....
i have no doubt in edgars skills of getting everyone we ask for to be where you want them to be on friday night - i feel like even if we put famous people on that list he would be persistant enough to get them there to make his megan's bday special :) is he sad that we are stealing you away all weekend? are you guys doing a just the two of you think at all?
for some reason, i had it in my head that you guys got here at 7:30 . . . don't worry, i have the right numbers written down, just not in my head :)
in that case, scratch changs friday night. we can still go to old toad though! and we'll do changs and shopping on saturday :) edgar is working friday so he can be my little recruit to get everyone to show up at old toad. i'll give him a specific list of people he needs to harrass into going - he already knows that ryan tops that list :)
the whole advertising week - i'm jealous. i don't think there is ever anything cool like that around rochester :( i miss living in a real city (i count boston - i hope none of you now have the new york is the ONLY city attitude . . .)
i did see the pics of the living room - without being told :) i knew that since i left early on friday, conversation continued without me so i checked the archives :) did you guys get your tv stand from target?
what's in bryant park?
". . . the first annual Advertising Week in New York City (Sept 20-24), a series of public and private events that is billed as the largets-ever gathering of the world's most influential image-makers."
rups - that might have something to do with the 30 mustang convertibles with Avis signs lining 45 street. nush and megan - there was also a huge car shaped like ronald mcdonald's red shoe. interesting. . .
eventually, you won't like wings or doritos either! ;) please don't turn into a health freak. . .
for thanksgiving, i'm going home thurs around noon until early tues morning. i wanted to come back monday morning, but the flight would have cost me $500 instead of the $250 i paid for thurs-tues. i guess d. e. shaw will have to live without me for that monday. . .
when are you going? i think my parents are coming thurs for dinner, im gonna work friday, and the exam is the next sat, so just study the rest of the weekend...
my brother is on call, so my mom may just come hang out with me while i study, we shall see....
i dont like chalupas anymore cause they are so fried...i save my fried stuff for wings and doritos :) not wasted on a chalupa....
so you're saying i should look cute on the plane on friday, since we're going straight to dinner?
about the weather - yea, i definitely didn't check the weather before i left my apt this morning. and it's always hot in my room regardless of anything, so i was the only asshole out on the street this morning without a sweater or jacket. i agree with nush - i refuse to wear a jacket yet. i guess long sleeves and sweaters will do. it's so unfair - summer took forever to begin this year, and it ended so quickly :(
i'm all up for going shopping in rochester, too :)
friday night dinner at changs sounds fine! but we dont get in until 930 just to remind you....
and whatever else you want to do!!! its your call!! maybe i should bring my one piece pjs....i remember what its like living in an igloo with you :(
rupa - wed would work for me but ellen is only free thurs....what time is the movie on wed? i may pass and just watch it when it comes out on video...
when did that happen??
i can go to bp on wednesday. you guys are going to make me miss my most favorite step and pilates class! but oh well, i guess i'll deal :) can ameya make it to the movie on wednesday, too?
meg - i posted some pics of our living room this weekend, but i don't know if it archived them before you saw them. click on the link that says "Our living room". I'm sorry your landlord won't let you have a puppy. that sucks :(
rupa - i'm glad you had a good weekend!
it's so sad that sex and the city is over, although i'm glad cynthia nixon won. she's awesome. so is kim catrall, though. . .
i'm sleepy. i had a good weekend. i even went to church yesterday! rupa - i went to the church right next to mosh's apt, on sullivan and houston. the priest was a little bitter cause the church was really empty, and most of the people there were really old people. he's like: "this is a young neighborhood. look around, the seats are empty." blah blah blah. maybe the reason the church was so empty is cause nobody likes going to church if you're just going to get yelled at! oh well. i got my tix to go home for thanksgiving, too. they're soo expensive! i hate that airlines can do that - just charge whatever they want whenever they feel like it.
i can't wait for this weekend :)
i just looked at the weather forecast. it is cold here today, but its supposed to warm up for the rest of the week . . . and then rain on friday and make the rest of the weekend cold :( which is what happened this past week . . . last week was sooo nice . . . and then it rained a lot of friday evening and it got cold (i refuse to close windows so i've been sleeping under 2 comforters to keep warm at night . . .) just to give you guys a heads up for planning purposes. if you want to check weather.com - the zip code at my apartment is 14607.
there is def a ny&company around - east view mall (the home of changs) so it would be really easy to go there whenever you want. the mall is pretty nice - h&m, banana republic, williams sonoma, coach, etc . . . charlotte russe in case julie wants another cheapy going out shirt :)
but the schedule has changed! now, i want to do dinner at 8 on friday (pick up from airport, go to changs) but i don't know if you guys want that. ryan doesn't work at all on saturday, but he works friday night on the patio. so, i was thinking we could have a late dinner there on saturday, and then go to old toad (british pub, very casual sit down and drink beer). we could def convince a decent amount of changs people to go to old toad after work (so, the bar around 11) but if you guys don't think you'll want to go out to dinner friday night, then just tell me :)
basically, i have no real plans for the weekend. but i figure - hanging out with you guys is enough for me :) and its my birthday, so i don't care what anyone else wants ;)
rupa and julie - are you interested in going here sometime this week? im free today, wed, or thurs...and i dont want to stay long - but if we are gonna go this year, seems like better sooner rather than later since its getting cold!!! i refuse to wear a jacket yet...although i think i need to start wearing a sweater, esp if im coming in so early!!
CYNTHIA NIXON as Miranda Hobbes
did you guys see it?? she beat out samantha...i felt kinda bad :)
what did you do with your sister?
my weekend was fun:) after thurs night though i had zero desire to drink or go out and do anything that required energy...
sat i studied in the morning, made omelletes, bacon, toast for me and dev, he and i worked out together, went shopping - he picked out clothes for me - it was cute :) and then we had taco bell for dinner - i tried the new spicy chicken burrito on the commercials - it was good, but too cheesy for my liking...im gonna stick to the bean tacos :) megan - did you know i dont like chalupas anymore???
and sunday, i made the same breakfast again, and then he left, and i studied all day. went to a pilates class that at the time i thought sucked, but after wards when i couldnt walk realized it did do something....and then went to nisha and avanes apt (nisha is chets sister, av is akhils sister, they live together now on wall st...). they made dinner...came home, did more work then went to bed.
megan - is there a ny&company near your apt? on the website there are a few in rochester, and the timings for the one in ny are soo inconvenient....just an idea if we had time to go to a real mall :)
hi everyone!!
i haven't figured it out either.. i always use something different. i think email or the blogthis would be fastest :)
i had a really awesome weekend with my sister. megan- can't wait to see you!!
how was everyone else's weekend?
i talked to my landlord . . . no pomapoo :( there wasn't even discussion, just a flat out no! it was sad.
i am NOT working at changs. in fact, i think i'll be quitting sortly after you guys leave. now, off to lab meeting!
i cant believe we are coming in 4 days!!! this is exciting. megan you will be happy to know that i got most of my studying for this week done this weekend, which means i dont need to bring my books this weekend...
you arent working at changs all weekend are you?
hey meg - these are for you! look how awesome our living room looks :) all the pictures in the frames are my dad's.
we took these pictures on thursday before rups and ameya came over. the other pictures from the night are in anusha's camera. . .
you guys should fight more often if it means he'll buy us more presents :)
i didn't do much work. now i'm just watching tv. i'm going to put the laptop down now.
jules, dev just bought me a new wireless hub that is supposed to be muuuch faster than our old one
thought youd be excited :)
i told patty id go with her tomorrow to get her car...and its like an hour away!!! this sucks! how am i goign to get any work done!!!
im prob not goign to be home for a while...im gonna go to devs after work, get some laundry started and i think take a nap there...then ill come home after...he is going to some party, and actually invited me to go with him, but i dont want to...im waaaay too tired
yay for dvr! and yay for home setups.
rupa had to come home cause her sis will get into town in a little bit, so she said i could sit on her couch and work on her work laptop while she cleans up. this is so much more fun than working at the office :)
nush - you should study at work so you can hang out a little at home tonight :)
i think i need to ask gen one question.
and then i need to fill out one form (which is half filled out and only a page long) and then i will go home. enough of this sitting at my desk and playing! its useless. i might as well go run my errands and go home instead. . . .
don't look at the nutritional info! i firmly stand by the saying "ignorance is bliss." going out drinking just makes me want to be so unhealthy the next day. i always just crave greasy bad for you food. if someone looks up the nutritional info for buffalo wings, i think i'll scream. hmm - now you guys are making me feel guilty. maybe i'll force myself to go to the gym after work to make up for the wings i'm going to have tonight. or for the coffee cake i just ate. or for half of rupa's happy meal fries. . .
rupa's hula hello kitty is cute :)
writing down what you eat actually does work. i tried it for a couple of weeks this summer, and you eat so much less when you write it all down! hmm - maybe i'll start doing that again. i usually eat pretty healthy all week. it's the weekends and drinking that kill me. . .
ive always wanted to keep track, but since i eat so much random indian home cooking and stuff its hard....i tried doing weight watchers when i started working here cause my cousin was doing it, but i couldnt do it...
although ive foudn just writing everything you eat down makes you eat less!!!
all said after a bag of fritos....cause they dont make small size bags of spicy doritos!!!
i found a default template to set up a calorie counter spread in excel - it has the formulas already set up to type in your recommended total calories and fat and type in everything you ate and it'll do all the subtraction and percentages for you . . . i added in a category for carbs too and was thinking i'd be good and keep track. yeah, all corporate chains now have their nutrition info online. my recommendation is not to check - let yourself pretend. it's painful to see the actual numbers. example - one of the worst things for you - in regards to fat - served at chang's is the salad. that takes the fun out of it!!!!! oh, and don't even get me started on johnny rockett's burger and a milkshake - that'll fill your day's daily allowance of everything except vitamins! so, i say going out to eat is about spoiling yourself. don't look at the calories, it ruins it!
what is a hot and spicy chicken sandwich???
chicken select strips are sooooo bad for you....
rupa - what happy meal toy did you get?
just for kicks i went to the mc d's site.. to see what our damage was today :) funny how they have calorie listings on the website now! and i discovered... that you can get a happy meal with an apple and milk instead of fries and coke.. not that we would do that.. mc d's has to be unhealthy :)
for your enjoyment
http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.categories.mightykidsmeals.index.html
ive been craving the new chicken select stuff there!!! but after seeing super size me and after feeling like eatign that basically negates working out for a month, i have withheld...but i think ill give in next week...
i really want taco bell this weekend too...i love that it is close to us...
ordering wings sounds good...although jackie and i are on opposite ends of the spectrum! so well have to see how that works out....
wow we are fatties....and im so tired and hung over still that i dont want to work out today :)
i just spoke to my boyfriend jackie - she doesn't want to go to a sports bar; looks like she's just as tired as we are. she suggested we watch the game at home and order wing. we'll probably order from that atomic wings place (those are the wings they have at down the hatch). so nush, how does that sound?
testing 123: rupa and i were trying to figure out why my postings always come up with the link to Girls. i guess i just didn't erase the whole html part completely, so that's why it was doing that.
nush, i'm glad the talk was good :)
rupa and i just went for a walk around the block, then went to a mcdonalds that's twice as far as the one around the corner from our building, and we sat in the park while rupa ate her happy meal and i ate her fries. all in all, a good lunch break.
the nap was good, the talk was not fun, but also good. he just doenst communicate well. i told him if what i needed from him last night was too much to ask for then i dont think that i can be in the relationship...he basically was like im just not used to having someone always concerned and living their life around what i do and im not used to having to tell someone things all the time, but that doesnt mean i cant change, and i have to change at some point...blah blah....
i forwarded your part about the yankees blog to him...lets see what he says...although i think i need to go home, nap and then study....but i havent had wings in soooo long! i def want to go to fridays happy hour sometime next week to have half off wings....my treat if either of you will go with me!!!!
why the testing 123?
maybe we'll do the baseball game too :) today is of course my sis's bday.. yay! she's coming in very soon.. which means i'm leaving work very soon... and then maybe we'll meet up with you guys. i miss holden too :(
jules- there's some software i have used that i loved called PodAct or something like that.. i need to look on my laptop at home and see what it is. i'll let you know :) i can't get light in your eyes out of my head now!!!
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and i forgot to charge my ipod last night so there's no way it's going to last me another 5 hours :(
oh, i def do less work.
on the other hand, from monday at 8:30 to wednesday at 3, i put in . . 27.5 hours in which i was actually doing stuff that whole time. sooo . . . i don't do a whole lot total, and the work i do do seems to come in random spurts.
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i didn't think that was possible! ;)
nush - yankees vs redsox tonight. i know you wanted to study.. .but wings and baseball! how you can you say no to that?
holden sent rupa and me an email seeing if we wanted to go to riviera to watch the game. i'll go if you and / or peter wanna come. and of course, dev and his friends are invited too. i wanna meet this famous jack :)
i think watching a baseball game and then going home and sleeping sounds like a great way to spend friday night. . .
ok, i'm bored of being at work now. as soon as i def confirm antibodies, i am going to walk to where dorothy's desk is in my one attempt to talk to her (which i keep trying to pysch myself up to do and never actually get around to it . . . after that, i'm going home! i'm not doing anything. courtney set up a sign up binder for one of the machines that other labs are using that shouldn't be. the only extra binder she found was bright pink and the only tape around was mint green - i said it looked like a watermelon and gen jokingly suggested i draw on seeds. now, at the bottom of the binder is an outline of a watermelon half in green tape, black seeds drawn in and "fruity" written at teh bottom. they told me to go do work . . .
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trust me megan, i'm definitely bringing my ipod. i plan on stealing a lot of your music! i haven't found a place to download songs for free. i've actually been purchasing songs on iTunes for a while now. i definitely think it's worth it.
rups - do you know how to take music from an ipod and put it on a computer? i know there's some sort of software you can download to do it, but the last time i tried it it didn't work and i just ended up erasing everything from my ipod.
oh yea - megan, anusha's hair looked awesome last night! we took some pics, so hopefully we'll put those up soon. (they were taken on anusha's camera, though, and she's not the best at sharing her digital pictures).
nush - can rupa and i come nap at dev's too??? nah, just kidding. i think it's good for you guys to talk. i'm sure everything will work out. is he coming to the comedy thing with us tomorrow?
i don't have thge song light in your eyes, but i definitely want to get it from megan :)
yay- you should get one. i love mine!! i have light in your eyes.. it's in my morning mix :) but i'm ipod is at home today. i'll upload it later. got to have my meeting with jules today!! yay!
whats going on with your ipod megan?? i havent heard anything about it....maybe you can wait to see mine and julies next weekend and then decide which one you like? mine is green...i love it!
jules - i think i need to go talk to dev...plus im tempted to go there and take a nap :) its probably a bad idea, but either way i need to go talk to him...and i think after talking to you this morning im more calm :) i love my friends, you guys are the best
AND I LOVE MY HAIR!!!!!! :)
if julie doesn't have it, i do.
in fact, make sure to bring ipods so everyone can skim through my selection and get new music :) can't promise any amazing finds, but you'll get some new options :)
jules - did you every find a place to download mp3s conveniently? i think once i actually get my ipod, i might just suck it up and do the itunes thing through mac - its only .99 a song . . .
HE is on thefacebook.com
and has over 50 pages of friends . . . i know, because i was trying to find the v's to see if johnny v was up :)
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it was so nice to hang out yesterday! we had a great time. . .too bad dev was a pipi head last night.
nush, do you want to meet up for lunch later? i brought a sandwich, but i can bring it and eat with you wherever you want. rupa doesn't have a couch anymore (sad, i know), which is why i had to show up to work at 10:30 this morning. i love working somewhere flexible :)
i'm supposed to go out and party again tonight, but i really really dont want to do that again. i think my ideal evening would be: go to the gym after work, go home and make dinner, stay in and watch a movie. i invited jacob and his roommates over for happy hour, but i'm hoping i can just push it back till tomorrow. the thought of drinking again tonight isn't making me very excited.
so nush - meet up later? rups, are you free? will you be able to join us?
havent heard that song in forever...jules do you (and therefore I) have it?
for me the song was the usher one that chris sang :)
i knew him!!!!
he came to my room!!!!!
really, he and i should have made out. why didn't we make out??? probably because i didn't think i could actually make out with a guy i had a crush on. DAMNIT! why didn't i just make a pass at him back then?! he was a freshman! he would have been excited to have a random sophomore girl jumping him!!!!!! did they tell you what he was up to these days? oh, johnny v . . . i told edgar that this guy named collins used to sing light in your eyes and it would make all the girls in the room cream in their pants. he was unimpressed.
do you still have a couch in your office? can i come over at like 1130 and take a nap???
i feel like crap.....
devs roommates are 3 atos '04s, and i told them that the only 04 i knew was johnny v, and i didnt know him, i just wanted to know him :)
they laughed
:( :( :(
i'm sorry! i think he sounds a whole hell of a lot more high maintenance than you! i'm glad you got to go out and have fun, though. you've been working hard studying and that is bound to get to you. i'm glad you let yourself have a night off to hang out with friends, even if dev was a stupid head :( boys suck! i can't wait for you guys to get here next week!!! i'm going to leave early again today and i keep thinking why isn't it next week yet?!
so, i got to stay home and organize :) i watched man on fire (not good) and cleaned out my closet (mostly) edgar dropped and added a class yesterday, so he got to play catch up and do a lab and a take home quiz he missed. i got to see him for like an hour - i met up with him at dennys while he grabbed some food and then i went with him to his school to finish the lab write up and slip it under his prof's door.
i KNOW i'm not hanging out with anyone tonight :) basically everyone i know works at restaurants, so they are all working. so, i think i'll finish putting away clothes and organizing and maybe take back empty bottles . . . i lead such an exciting life :) MAYBE i'll make it to the gym!
have you guys ever heard of thefacebook.com? its like freindster, only it divides everyone up by what college they are going to/went to. koo added herself and put up a pic from spring break with both her and i in it. i played around on it for a little while this morning, seeing who was on it. i was hoping for a ryan wagar or jamie brady or johnny v - someone i am almost sure i'll never see/speak to again . . . but no such luck.
i would love to post the pic. i found one . . . but once again, blog hates me or my computer does . . .
megan to add a little to rupas blog...
the night with the girls was great - and the best part is we are going to be doing that all next weekend WITH YOU TOO!!!!
but the night with the boy was not so good...hence the title of this blog....
the night for me started at 530 when jules and i drove for 2 hours to go get our haircut :) but it was def worth it and we will def do it again....ill send you pictures tonight when i get home - but he showed me how to make my hair curly!!! i love him :)
and what i wanted for the evening was to spend time with rupa julie and ameya and also with dev and his friends. i know that my friends would have gone wherever he was, and i told him that - all he had to do was call. and at 8 i called and was like im on my way back where are you? at 9 i called and was like im in the city and dont know where ims uppsoed to meet you so im going home. he texted me and was like i dont get reception here, ill call you in a few hours. i wrote back and said, i want to come with you! he wrote back and was like there isnt anyone here you wouldnt like it anyway, so i said fine, went home hung out with jackie and julie...ameya and rupa came to the apt...we went to one club, now 1130, still no call from dev...went to another club, now around 1 maybe, still no call. then he calls and is like im home, where are you? at the time i was already crying out side of a club wanting to just crawl into a ball and go home. he complains every day that i dont like his friends and i dont want ot hang out with them, when really how the hell is this my fault?? i keep trying and asking and begging for him to call me to see them and he doesnt call...
anyway we ended up at a club across the street from his apt so i called and told him that, he showed up and the second he got there was like i just want to go home, and i said fine, go, but i was mad at that point, and ready to call it a night, so i said bye to the girls, caught up with him, gave him a piece of my mind, told him i wanted to go home, be by myself, the cabby was really nice and was like sorry you are crying i dont have any tissues, i called chike on my way home cause i just wanted to feel appreciated - i wanted a guy to tell me that i wasnt high maintenance and that i was fun when we dated - cause dev thinks all this is high maintenance - all i wanted was for him to call me so i could go out with HIS friends???!? i dont get it....
ill prob blog a lot today cause my two bosses arent here.....
i want to just be home and asleep.....
Megan- I had a fun night with these girls that involved drinking at their apt (and seeing the apt all setup).. going to one bar and watching really good breakdancers do their pop-locking thing :) and then out to a club that played real hip-hop. :)
Even though we all live in the same city, this was the first time in a long time that we all hung out. Yay!!
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but i'm still not dressed to go out to a bar or club or anything! yea, you have told me about jack. there's nothing wrong with hanging out with a male slut once in a while ;) i'm definitely going home and changing before i go out, though. i can just meet up with you guys. i'll also have a drink (or 2 or 3) at home so i won't have to buy myself any drinks tonight.
meg - never heard of a pomapoo. you should google it tomorrow and put a pic of it in our blog :)
ive told you about jack, havent i? he lives in jersey, works for IBM, basically has devs job at IBM, and is realllly cute. but also a male slut, but would prob be a realllly good male slut, so that makes it worth it right??
thats why i dressed up today - not cause he is a male slut but cause i didnt want to feel like i had to go home after work :)
arent your work clothes just jeans or something casual anyway?? i havent seen you have to look professional at work since they made you permanent :)
that's the breed of dog i think i want . . . or an italian greyhound. the pomapoo is a mix of pomerain and toy poodle - very affectionate, can be trained not to bark a lot, apartment friendly . . . and i saw some in the paper yesterday :)
the two drawbacks of italian greyhound - which is a really cool looking breed - is one, they can get skittish. and two they are really bad in cold weather - i saw a woman walking one in rochester and she said her son (the owner) has to put little booties on its feet to take it out in the winter, and the website i was reading recommended sweaters.
and i'd love to pick the puppy out with you guys, but i'd love to hang out with anusha when she is smiling and not freaked out more :)
haha so today since im all dressed up i wore my nice pointy shoes that i love...and i was sitting here with them off and just hanging out, doing my work, and steve (the asian kid i work with - do i have to keep explaining who these people are, or megan do you know the names by now??) asked if i told allen something, which i hadnt, so i was getting up to go tell him, and by accident i just slipped on one of these shoes that i wore this morning and one of the shoes that i just keep here for the normal days when i wear sneakers - and i couldnt figure out why i felt lopsided!!! then i looked down :) luckily i didnt go farther than my cube....
thanks jules!!
:)
i've never even heard of finger eleven.
the earlier the better for me too tonight.. but let me know what we end up doing :)
rupa - i thought you were going to a concert and we were goign to meet after that?
i sort of hinted to dev about manahatta...but he said since jack (the cute one in the band) is going to have all his equipment with him midtown, they will prob just hang out here...
rupa, if you are free at 9, im fine with meeting you guys first and then meeting him...i just thought since you were going to a concert, and he was goign to be right where we drop the car off seeing him first made sense....
anything works for me...
jules they are going to be at a place in midtown called lizard lounge, its part of a mexican rest and has a place for bands to play...looked ok online...not a place id want to go to on my own will, but seemed ok...
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Here you go rups:
Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line
It’s nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
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nush and i should be back in the city around 9ish. i was hoping we could meet up sometime around then. i didn't want to make this a very late night (although that never works).
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i'm so jealous you're going to hawaii! studying on the beach is definitely the way to go. the only reason i passed 14.01 freshman year is cause i spent all of spring break reading the 14.01 book on the beach.
rupa - i don't know who sings that song but i know which song you're talking about. i watch mtv and vh1 in the mornings when i'm getting ready for work, so i'll keep my ears open.
nush - i think your things are getting posted right now. before, you'd posted somethign that showed up at like 1:05, but the time stamp on it said 1:47 or somethign like that . . .
Girlsmeg, i'll go with you to pick out the puppy! i wish my roomie and my building allowed puppies ;) but i guess i kind of like anusha, so i'll keep her for now.
meg, i don't know if i'll be able to take anusha's books away from her for the weekend. i mean, if she doesn't get any study time in at least on the flight or something, then she'll probably just have to study more during the week! stupid test.
nush - just to warn you: i don't know at what time we're going out tomorrow. it might not be till pretty late. do you know where dev and his friends are going out tonight? maybe jackie and i can meet up with you guys. i want to meet his friends.
jackie and i had fun hanging out wtih dev last night, too. that's the beauty of having a real living room: it encourages us to hang out with each other instead of just watching tv in our own rooms!
i haven't tried out the sofa bed so i don't know how comfy it is. a couple of jackie's friends are spending the night tonight, so we'll get to test it out.
ugh! i want to leave in like an hour and a half and i still have work to do. blah. i was so productive today, too!
it's a bit rocky/alternativey and on the radio a lot?
the chorus is:
"if i traded it ALL
if i gave it ALL
just for one thing..." The alls are really LONG...
dont tell dev that though! he wasnt happy when i told him id prob bring my books to hawaii!!
although now he is happy - cause the cardinals will prob be in the playoffs, and their first round games will be when we were there, and he was flipping out today wondering how he was goign to watch the games when we were there...and i was like well just go to a bar wont it be on tv? and he was like yeah but youll get so mad if i watch baseball all day long...my response was, i love baseball, as long as you put wings in front of me :) and ill have to study some anyway, so if you are watching baseball it will be perfect time for me to study on the beach
if only i could always study on the beach...i think id never complain about all the studying...
rupa - im not sure that ill get to go to the concert, but i believe its from 9-11, its at lizard lounge, its his friend - jules - a cute boy who works for ibm :) reallly cute boy :) i just left it that id call him when we were on our way back, which is what i presume we are going to do with you and ameya too?
are my things getting posted at a normal time for you guys?? they show up for me right away, so i cant tell....
i like the mary kate and ashley idea :) did you have a dog growing up?
i made one of them cry.. she screwed up something really big- and when i mentioned it, was just a little too "whatever" about it. they are a little too easygoing with me... a little too willing to show that they aren't really concerned when they screw up something really big. so i called her into my office.. and basically tried to explain why what she did was a mistake.. and how she should tell me when something like that happens (basically she never told me.. i found out indirectly). and she started crying. don't feel bad for her.. she's not really the nice one in this case... she basically cried and then has gone back to not really listening to me.
anyway.. it's getting better. and i'm learning to be a tough guy :)
julie, before you leave your apartment for rochester next week - HIDE ANUSHA'S STUDY STUFF! the plane ride is only an hour long and i don't want her distracted . . . she can go back to her boring self when she gets home ;)
Hi there :) I made it so that only one day shows up on the blog at a time. That way the main page isn't a ton to scroll through :) you can always click on archive if you want to read old stuff... but this will make our constant blogging easier to take.
can't wait to see you guys tonight. anusha- when do you think you'll be done with the concert in midtown? what concert is it anyway?
i decided to work from home today so that i could get more alone work done.. less talking to my team. it's hard getting a lot done in the office (hanging out with jules aside). it's nice though.. i'm sitting on my bed.. listening to my speakers really loud.. and can steal snacks from the fridge every once in a while.
i was venting before b/c even being far away i've had to answer all these questions that i haven't gotten much done.. but that's what the weekend will be before. i feel myself getting sucked back into my crazy hours.
i can't wait to see you megan.. i'm glad it's coming up so close.. and that we don't have a super long drive to bear :) it's ok if we can't do the winery... i would be just as happy telling stories and drinking boxed wine :)
i have to do this phone interview now.. but will write more later. happy thursday! it's already thursday!
i want to get a puppy. i've officially decided. i was looking at the classified ads online in the local paper and i'm going to check the shelters as soon as i get someone to go with me :)
don't worry nushie - i will not get this puppy until after you leave :) and whenever i get it, it will be small so you never have to be scared of it :)
and i think they should be named mary kate and ashley. and i'm not their boss so i can name them and publish it :)
rups - how'd you make them cry???
I am their boss :) and would get in a lot of trouble for nicknaming them... especially on something that is published!
But my day has been fine... really busy.. even without being there. Gosh i hate email. More soon... I wish today were like yesterday!!
i dont know why they take long to post...but i still like this better than email...
if you guys were going to try doritos or were curious, wouldnt you think the best person to ask would be me?1?!?!? i had them like 6 months ago when they first came out; i think they are gross :) to get a sense of how gross i think they are, if those are the only doritos there are (which happens a lot at duane reede) i just switch at get fritos! stick to the spicier nacho ones.....
rupa - why are you home?
jules - ill be there at 530...i hope everyone leaves here at 415 to go!! i may not go back to the apt after we drop off the car...dev is going to his friends concert here in midtown and i think it starts around when we get back...so i said id call him and if i get in touch with him ill go there, and then meet up with you guys after...i havent talked to ameya....
i should dress up more often - the guy at subway asked "do you want anything else beautiful?" and then when i was walking back from starbucks, the indian guy that i normally buy fruit from was like "you dont want anything", i just smiled sweetly and said no and kept walking, he called out "beautiful!" i turned around kind of surprised, and he goes "catch" and threw a banana at me - i was in the middle of the street! it was amusing - i smiled the whole walk back :)
i do like all the stuff in the family room - although i think its going to get some getting used to the maze it takes to now walk to our rooms! the room looks so tiny now!!! i didnt sit on the couch...you guys should just jump on it to soften it...have you opened it to see how the bed is?
dev said he had fun hanging out with you guys last night :) i told him we could all have fun together in december....
i also may bail on tomorrow night's gathering at home...esp if i see rupa and ameya tonight...ill prob just stay here till late and come home after you guys go out...
Girls
yay! looks like anusha's posting finally ocurred. yea, i don't know why my post came out a million times.
meg - what did the guacamole doritos taste like?? i've always been curious to know if they're any good or not, but i haven't been brave enough to try.
and what is it with you and libraries?? you're so strange. i've been so productive today! half my department should be out more often. and rupa should stay home! ;)
rups, how's your day going? matt bieber invited me to have lunch with him, cariann, and jennifer. i declined politely since i'd brought a sandwhich this morning. for the girls that don't know - matt is another recent grad that started working here a couple of months ago. he's a princeton grad - a really nice guy. meg, he reminds me of a golden retriever - just nice and happy and easy going and lovable. Cariann and Jennifer are 2 other new associates. they work for rupa in desrad, and they tend to be a pain in the ass. rupa made cariann cry the other day ;) rups - we need to come up with nicknames for them. can you think of 2 annoying sisters?
jules, i talked to my dad and he cant do anything unless you go see him as an official patient...he needs a record on file if he is going to make any claims like that...
the funny thing is mark is going to see him next week :) he is doing stuff in his house cause he is allergic to dust and if he has a doctors note saying that, then he can get insurance to pay a lot of the bill....he is going to go see him next week sometime :)
first of all, i can see julie's posting 4xs.
second of all, what is up with anusha's computer?! the reason everything is posting funny is because her posting time has not even occured yet according to my computer! it was like that with email too . . . her emails always had the most RANDOM times listed . . . is boa in its own time zone or something?!
i tried dorito guacomole chips . . . they were the most interesting looking option in the .30 chip section so i thought i'd give them a try. not really that good . . .
i really think today is the day i'm going to leave early, and i'll work tomorrow normal hours. i wanted to talk to gen about stuff and she left for class until after 4. . . and maybe i'll walk down the hall and see if i can talk to dorothy . . .
for now, i need to make another trip to the library! which i love, so eun goes crazy picking out articles and i go fetch them for her :) i've already done 2 today, and it looks like she's got 10 more waiting to be found :)
Girls
umm - so i don't know what i did wrong, but my new post got posted twice and under anusha's and the whole text is like a hyperlink or something. . .
Re: ballys and i'm here now
hey nush - don't worry about the doctor's note. going all the way to ct to see your dad sounds like too much hassle. i should stick to ballys anyways since it's cheaper. thanks for asking, though!
did you like the way the living room looks?? the couch is a bit too hard still; we def need to break it in. it's so nice to be able to hang out in the living room now :) dev could also watch tv there when you're studying, so maybe that'll help you concentrate more.
rupa's floor is getting a ridiculously expensive cappuccino machine! so i wont have to go to starbucks anymore - i'll just need to take the elevator down to 33, and i can get coffee and hang out with rupa! that's going to be miserable.
nush - our car reservation is at 5:30. we need to pick up jetta jasmine on 55th street between 5&6 ave (Ultra Car Park Garage, on the north side of 55). i'll have driving direction to LI, so all you need to do is have as many drinks as you can from 4:30-5:30 :)
then we're meeting rupa and ameya for drinks. i told rupa she should meet us at our apt - we can have a drink there before we head out. does ameya know he's still hanging out with us tonight?
if only that meant that i just woke up and got to work...
nope, ive been up since 6, showered, and studied all morning. i couldnt get anything done last night. i really need to come up with a more motivational study plan - having dev around is just not working. he is usually good about just watching tv and not distracting me, but last night, he was watching tv, got a phone call from a friend and talked to him for like 20 min, and was building julie and jackies tv stand...all in all too much noise to do anything. so i went to bed at 1030, and woke up at 615, got ready, got a lot of studying done. and was ehre at 830. went to a really good meeting this morning with allen - my boss, and steve, this asian guy i work with who if i didnt havea boyfriend i think would def break up with his girlfriend to ask me out :) anyway, i just got back and decided to blow off the conference iw as supposed to go to so i could have lunch with dev.
AND i talked to my mom!!! so after a miserable night, today is shaping out to be great :) got work done, talked to my mom for like 15 min, am meeting dev at 1230 for lunch. jules - the car is at 530 right?? also yesterday our sales guys told us they were taking us out for drinks today, and i was kind of bummed that i was going to be missing it to go get a haircut, but today i got an email saying drinks are at 430!!! so jules, i may just be a little tipsy when we meet up at 530 :)
i dont get fraps anymore either...i just cant spend that much money on coffee...jules - remember when we were at fleet and they gave me that 10 dollar thing for waiting so long?? i finally went to starbucks and changed it to a gift certificate so i can get 4 coffees :) but ive been good and not bought coffee all week....
AAANNNNDDD our tickets to hawaii came yesterday!!! well a copy of the e ticket, and all travel info for how much we get to spend each day (like 60 bucks/person/day...) and all the fun activities and stuff they have to offer all week :) i cant believe that is in 3 weeks!!
ok now i need to get through a few more emails before lunch....
i have not had a starbucks frap in months!
i don't really hit up convenience stores for drinks that much (none are *convenient*) so i just end up at local coffee shops. starry nights (the place i took anusha) has the best fraps around, but spin's are ok - and much much closer to my apartment. just straight coffee, i got to cibon. later at night with edgar, i go to java's . . . just to outline what a coffee shop WHORE i've become :)
so, i'll be repeating the experiment again next week - so i'm trying to troubleshoot over the next 2 days and fix inaccuracies. so, i'm going to have to talk to people i don't know. the first on the list is dorothy, who has sort of done this before. she seems really nice, but i just don't know her and feel sort of guilty monopolizing her time! i just want to know - in detail - what she did and used and what problems she came across that i should watch out for. is that too much to ask? :)
that should at least take me through the rest of today. then i'll just show up and keep my seat warm tomorrow and leave early :) or maybe leave early today . . . since today i think i will be hanging out with my boyfriend.
i talk too much . . .
Girls
meg - i have a mocha frappuccino sitting in front of me, so of course it made me think of you! our company is spread out through different floors, and the kitchen in the 15th floor has frappuccinos! the only thing that sucks is that getting to the 15th floor is a pain in the ass cause you need to take the elevator to the lobby, go to the other elevator bank, then take it up to 15. and also, when you're there, everyone kind of just stares as you 'cause you walk in, make a beeline for the kitchen, then walk out. and if you're really luck, you might even run into eddie torres! (he's some sketchy guy that creeped me out at the xmas party last year, and then rupa ended up making out with him).
anyways, the whole point of this was just to say that i'm thinking of megan since i'm having a frappuccino :)
oh, you'll get to meet him!
want to hear how nuts i am? i'm going to check his schedule so that he's there when we got to chang's on saturday :) the wine tour looks like its falling through. i told edgar he didn't need to drive us around because jess was planning a big thing. well, jess dropped the ball. so, we might just have to spend time with each other sober :)
Girls
yea, new years is way too far ahead to plan right now. i'm just excited about going to rochester in about a week :)
meg - i haven't heard you rave about ryan in a while. am i still going to get to meet him??
I will if megan's gonna be in NYC :) but we'll see... haven't really
thought about it.
jules I hope you make it to colombia!!! I hate the idea of that too...
but they are always better with all the asia tickets we've gotten too
Girls
last year's party is going to be a tough act to follow ;)
actually, i'm not so sure i'm going to colombia anymore. i looked online for flights briefly yesterday, and they were like $1500! (departing from nyc). my mom had found fares for $550 leaving from miami, so if i tack on another $150 for a flight from nyc to mia, then that's more affordable. i need to call a travel agent today and try to figure all this stuff out. i dont like the fact that i have to use a travel agent! i'm def from the generation that just uses the internet to do everything. but for some reason, flights to colombia are much cheaper if you go through an agency, and my mom's travel agent in miami says that he can't get me good fares from nyc, so i just need to do it here. . .
blah blah blah. sorry, i know that's probably more detail than you needed to know about my travel arrangements.
meg - you should just start getting to work earlier, that way you won't have problems parking ;)
did you and jessie sign another 1 year lease? when we move out of our apt, i think we're going to have to leave the couch for the next tenants! it was such a mission getting it in the apt! our door and hallway/stairway are VERY narrow. oh well, it looks good, though :)
so, for the third day in a row i'm parked illegally. that was how my morning started . . .
i checked out my experiment yesterday and it went sort of right, sort of wrong . . . so, i'm doing it again on monday to see whether the right is really right and the wrong is really wrong. gotta love science :)
basically, i think the next 2 days will just be wasting time again. i'm starting to collect a lot of paper, so i'm going to organize my desk.
last night, my boyfriend didn't want to hang out with me. he had some reading he needed to do for class and i think he was annoyed that i didn't talk to him on tuesday until 9:00 and it might have had something to do with that . . . but mostly, he is trying to be super student this term so he's doing a lot of class work.
instead, i watched a little of passions of christ (sooo long. i don't reccommend it) and all of reign of fire (the ending sucked) and i picked up the living room a little. it is going to be such a pain in the ass when we move out . . . we've collected so much stuff. plus, i'm in the midst of cleaning out my closet (and drawers and trunk and all the other random places i have my excessive amount of clothes i never wear stashed) to get rid of all the stuff i never touch. jessie was my judge the other day and she was like um, when's the last time you wore that? to everything. things over a year got put in the to give away pile.
jules - i'm excited you are going to colombia! but this means you can't attend rupa's new year's party!!! :) :)
Girls
hi ladies! i got to work before 8:30 this morning. crazy, huh?? and i'm hyper. jackie made us breakfast this morn (scrambled eggs with cheese, toast with butter and jam . . . yummy). maybe i'd have more energy if i had a real breakfast every day. ehh.
anyways, i was so sad cause i tried to check the blog as soon as i got up and it wasn't working for some reason :(. but now it's up again so i'm all good. nush and i are getting haircuts today. of course, nyc doesn't have enough good hairdressers, so we're going all the way to long island for our cut. we're using zipcar for the first time, so we're taking jetta jasmine out for a spin ;)
oh yea, i got drunk dialed last night. joey called me at like 3am. i just looked at my phone and went back to sleep - i was exhausted. he didn't leave a message (that could have been entertaining). he's weird - i can't tell if he's into me or not (which makes me think he's not). i don't know - i still had fun tuesday night. even if nothing happens, he's just fun to hang out with.
meg - how was your quiet evening at home with your boyfriend??
Hey there :)
I missed you girls leaving work (and anusha's coming and leaving). We could not use the comments- it's supposed to be that if each entry is about a new topic then you respond to the topic, but it would be easier to just keep scrolling.
the blog actually archives after each month, but we could have it do it after each week so that the page doesn't get so long. i'll change that. the refresh thing is a bit more complicated- you can't have it just refresh every time you open it- i'd have to put it on a timer to just refresh every 15 seconds or something... otherwise it's just a product of the user's browser- let me see what i can do...+-
i think im going to go home soon too...
i cant even keep my eyes open....
and the thought of doing more work after listening to managers for over 7 hours is not appealing!!!
Girls
i don't like having to look for comments! i don't think we should use the comments thing.
the trip to spain got canceled. the art exhibit my dad was doing in spain got moved to germany, and i guess my parents weren't as excited about going there. also, going to colombia would be a lot less cheaper, and neither of them have been in a while, so they're excited about doing that.
i'm bored, i think i'm leaving soon and going to the gym. today's the really good step and pilates class that i really like. i haven't been to it in over a month! i'm excited :) after that, i'm looking forward to just going home and relaxing. oh yea, and jackie and i still need to put together that tv stand. blah. megan and rupa - you guys need to come see our apt soon! it's going to look so good now with all my dads pics up and the couch and tv stand :)
i dont think i like this blogging thing...i keep having to read each message again to see if there are comments!!!
i think im just tired...
Girls
so, i don't like having to click to see comments. i think it's easier if we all just create a new post whenever we're going to add or comment on something - that way there's no clicking involved. i like scrolling better than clicking. and then you don't have to go searching to see if anyone has added comments - this way, all the new entries are there for everyone to see immediately.
what do you all think?
hey girls...
i think what i gathered from all that is that we have a couch, julie had fun last night (both of which i already knew), if we use this rupa will actually respond!!, and megan is already home?!?!?!
im exhausted...todays conference was from 8-3, then i went to the gym, and got here around 430....
im having dinner with ellen, and dev is going to our apt to watch baseball :) thats my update....
Girls
the big boss just gave me the ok, so i'm taking a 2 week vacation! i'm sooo excited. i'll probably go from dec. 20th - jan 2nd. it's going to be non-stop partying for 2 weeks :)
i think my parents will probably go for 3 weeks. . .
Girls
so that was the smooth pick up line some guy thought would work on me yesterday. after joey left, i hung out with jackie and some guys she was talking to. i have no idea who they are or what they look like or anything. at the end of the night, they offer us a ride home, so we all pile into their benz. i'm sitting shotgun with one of the guys, when he says "you're a hot pice of ass." his buddy hit him immediately and was like "dude, don't say that to her, give her a little bit of respect." jackie and i just looked at each other and started cracking up. guys are so dumb :)
this blogging thing is addicting. need to stop now. must do some work. . .
i'm tired. its 3:00 and time for me to leave!
Rupa - AWESOME job on our blog :) i look forward to many more blogging days in the future ;)
where's anusha?????
i thought her converence wasn't until 11? or maybe today is the earlier day . . .
Look, you can also add pictures!! Here is Jules's work picture in our facebook. Does she look summery?? :)
i get to go see whether what i've been doing for the last - actually, week . . . worked. i'm thinking it didn't. i'm tired and not sure if i care.
ok, i'm here checking the blog. the only person that could possibly have been at work later than me was rupa (i was here until 3am, beat that!)
Girls
its 11:00. I will probably be here until . . . possibly 1:00. And I will be back in the lab for a 10:00am meeting with Eun tomorrow. I kind of want to be here early tomorrow so that 1. i get a parking space (i didn't this morning) and 2. i can put in a full 8 hours tomorrow to save up my extra hours tonight to have an excuse to leave early on Thursday (which edgar has off and jessie doesn't - i think - which means i can guilt free spend a whole evening with my boyfriend) i'm thinking long walk, movie, coffee . . . the works!
have you guys ever heard of happy bunny? i think it might just be a hot topic thing, but i LOVE it! its little bunny cartoons that are just hugely inappropriate. i bought myself a bright pink wristband that says "cute but pyscho" its my little *feel better* article these days.
i think i ate too much and then drank coffee that wasn't very good and now i don't feel good.
i think those are all my updates for the moment. i brought a book to entertain myself . . . maybe its time to read . . .
