no blogging today?

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!!!!

im in a good mood and will cheer you all up!!

i went to pilates again :) i love my gay instructor. maybe he isnt gay... :)

i cant wait to leave!!!

argh - i'm moody too

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

yay birthday!!!

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!

cheer up! its your birthday!

and we will be there 12 hours from now!!!

last night

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.

Happy Birthday Megan!!!

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

see ALL of you TOMORROW!!! (and jules tonight...)

Im off...im gonna go to devs till he leaves at 6, then take the train home and just study and pack tonight :)

wow i missed a whole day

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!

no time :(

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....

just skimmed

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

oops - i meant the joys of craigslist

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.

why didn't the link come up?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/40691636.html

the joys of netflix

go to this link. it's pretty funny :)

don't wait for me for 24

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?

24

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 like my dad's crazy ideas! :)

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. . .

6 sounds good

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...

you guys are coming!

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?

airport

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?

not a problem :)

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....

it is really nice out, but. . .

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. . .

ellen cancelled

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...

i love my friends :) - oh, and my dad wants to move to nyc!!!!!

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?!?!

we are coming tomorrow!!

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? :)

i'm back

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 :)

Re: lunch

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?

Re: lunch

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?

Apples on a Tree

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.

lunch?

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?

thinks vs things

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...

good morning ms. metzger!

"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. . .

hair, dogs, and more...

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....

woo-hoo!

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.

get ready to sweat

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 . . .

that's what friends are for :)

and you're right - it's so far away, there's no point in worrying about it now. have fun tonight!

thanks jules :)

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...

am i allowed to be frustrated?

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 :)

i think blog this is the most efficient way...

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 :)

replies to other blogs. . .

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. . .

severance

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 :)

but i wouldnt go! id just get paid!

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...

nevermind :)

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 :)

moving

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??!!!!!

boston....

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!!!!)

fast food

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.

oct 6-11 :)

thats when ill be in hawaii!!!

books

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

hotel on sullivan street

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.

i love wendy's

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 :)

avenue q

i saw signs for it!
i need to visit nyc more often :(
i can't wait to quit the second job . . .

gay men

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!

wasting time

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 :)

it's only wednesday

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 :)

it took me a while but i get here

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.

this weekend

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 :)

no getting sick!!!

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....

hello ladies

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?

ave q

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

good morning

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 :)

good morning

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?

no movie tonight

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 . . .

my email just went out :)

i finally sent it out without getting everything from everyone i was sick of waiting...

where the heck is rupa?

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....

wine

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!

wine

"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 ;)

wine

i def say we get a big bottle of beringers this weekend....ahh wine wednesdays :)

jobs

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.

jobs

thats exciting megan! would you have to take time off of this one to do that, or could you do that also?

on my list for today

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????

jobs

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 :)

my break

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.

my mom :)

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!!

comprehension

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....

email

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.

last samurai

def serious.
shop through it anyway :)

stores

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? :)

yay!

i'm glad you wrote, nush. blogging by yourself is no fun :)

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...

black shirt

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

your shopping bag

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.

is everyone working???? :(

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 think measuring is the safest bet . . .

i've never ordered clothes from vicky's secret so i can't really help you out. .

size??

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...

i can't believe i missed dinner :(

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?

what a pleasant surprise

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....

7 day bermuda

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!

oooh - i love mean girls

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.. .

cruises

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 :)

why oh why

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)

megan - why were you at work so early today???

did you have to go in last night to play with your cells?

megan - why were you at work so early today???

did you have to go in last night to play with your cells?

i've already watched 3 episodes of sex & the city this morning

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.

it's 8:00am . . .

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)

and by cheap i mean...

dude... $199 sounds good! (600 800 is a little out of the cheap range for me :) )

and by cheap i mean...

dude... $199 sounds good! (600 800 is a little out of the cheap range for me :) )

starting today...

im going to write down everything i eat...so far it doesnt seem so bad....lets see how things go as the week progresses....

dec 5

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...

thurs

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 :)

carnival

dude, early december cruises - not including airfare - 3 or 4 days in a lower interior room - $199 a person!

thanks for the moral support

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!

cruise!!

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!!

new years

let's go on a cheap cruise!!!
just like a 3 or 4 day cruise some place warm!!!!!!

:( 2

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 . . . )

you can reply- and new years

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!

i'm not going to colombia anymore

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.

i just got to eat!!

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....)

maria full of grace

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 love lunch with friends :)

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.

i say eat.

go eat!

hungry :(

im hungry and its only 1145...

but ive been up since 545...shouldnt i have had 2 meals by now???

boys and bones

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 :)

we discussed DE Shaw again today :)

jules, you are silly

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...

cities

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?

i'm an idiot

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?

Advertising week in NYC

". . . 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. . .

oh no, your boyfriend is getting to you. . .

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. . .

thanksgiving

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....

dinner and ryan on fri sound good to me :)

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 :)

weekend

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...

you don't like chalupas anymore?!?

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 :)

the weather outside is frightful . . .

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.

lerner

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 ;)

bp on wednesday

how about wednesday? let's do it before we go to maria full of grace :)

bryant park?

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!!

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

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 :)

good morning!

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?

puppies and monday morning

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 havent figured out the fastest way to post something...

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?