ditto!

one quick trip to the parking office and i'm on my walk to my car!!!

im outta here!

have a good weekend girls..

rups - you free for dinner sunday or monday?

let me know...

i leave wednesday afternoon for hawaii!!

final stretch

ok, all my work is done. i need to order a 6 antibodies, move my cells into a new tank, and drop off a parking form. basically - the same list as last time . . . only this time, the form is signed, courtney is here to talk about the tanks with and eun has which antibodies and companies she wants to buy! i can be finished in an hour! i think . . .

nevermind rupa...

i just ate :)

just got back...

from a meeting. sorry i missed ya. i'm busy again till 3 or so.. so have fun girls, if i don't talk to you! happy weekends!

3 pm im out of here :)

im all caught up too, i wish i brought some gym clothes so i could go to my 12 pilates class with my gay instructor, but i didnt bring any, and im kinda tempted to just do it in the clothes im wearing, but pilates has the potential to make you sweat just a little and that could be gross...oh well i worked out this morning so i shouldnt be too concerned, ill just get more prep stuff done for my crazy monday and tues next week.

plus 3 pm is only 3 hours from now :) rupa - if you are free we could meet for lunch? i brought some but we can meet halfway and eat together if you like...let me know...

yay

you should leave at two. any exciting weekend plans? nush, when do you leave to go see your mommy?

a quick week

i feel the opposite about this week! i think because i've been doing so much in the lab, all in preparation for the chaos that will ensue next wednesday. this is the first time i've sat down at my desk since i started working at 9. oh well :) i think i got analysis rescheduled and i might be out of here by 2 :)

gosh demanding!!!

nush, it's only 11! give it time :)

i'm SO SO SO happy that it's friday. i think after the super fun weekend last weekend and the sleepless monday morning, this week has gone by SO slowly. i'm so happy it's the weekend. i was thinking about going to boston, but i think i might just hang out here.. do fun stuff with the indian kids and soak in one of the last good weather weekends.

did anyone watch the debate last night? i watched the first 5 minutes and then turned it off b/c kerry was embarassing himself. and then i watched the second half where kerry was actually REALLY good. i hope he wins.. but i don't know.. bush sometimes preaches like such a minister that i think the masses will be fooled :)

electric storm is a good song. i believe it was released as a single though. i've only seen it on "best of" CDs, not on a full album...

julie, i miss you!!

these girls never write anything! its so boring!

U2

my new favorite U2 song is electrical storm...i hadnt heard it until a few days ago on my ipod...what album is it from??

and why does a dunkin donuts medium coffee cost me 2.00!?!??!!? i can get just a little more than that at starbucks for 2.39!!!! but it tastes soooo good.

i'm going home!

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 :)

hi hi

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 :)

sounds complicated....

stuff here is getting so busy! and realizing that i only have 3 days to do it is flipping me out!!!

how fickle

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 :)

thanks nush!

i'm heading out for the airport now. have a good weekend, girls!

love, jules

no more checking the blog...

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!!!

no more checking the blog...

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!!!

where's megan?

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! :)

shopping

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....

boys are pipi-heads

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 :)

MIA

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.

excuses excuses

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 :(

looks like everyone had a busy afternoon. . .

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. . .

last blog for the day from me

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!

at least julie is alive

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?

i need to limit myself from blogging

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.

no my fault!

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

oops - clock

i dont know why the clock is so weird!!! it just changed it by itself to 140 and i didnt do it i swear!!!

why i love my iPod

i'm listening to Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" right now! sooo random. reminds me of 3rd grade :)

rupa, is your ipod still sick?

sleeping at 9:30am

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.

thoughts on gilmore girls: none, thoughts on why boys are stupid: because they are boys

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 :)

rebutal

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?

carebear

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.

whoa!

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.

gimore Girls

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.

this morning

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. . .

oh, the guilt!

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? :)

he survived!

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!

sadness

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 . . .

rain?

it's sunny in rochester. don't curse us!

if no one knows...

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 :)

a little late

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.

oooh - gilmore girls

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 :)

mail

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 :)

i'm off darlings!

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 :)

microsoft tech support

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!!

crate and barrel

oooh - that one's nice. mounting might be a problem, though. . .

i like this if we could find a way to mount it

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/itemgroups/4758_0.asp

minutes

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...

get the hold everything one!

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.

if you're going to keep making fun of my music. . .

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

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?

hold everything!

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 . . .

sick

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?

nsync

i love that julie loaded all her music onto my ipod . . . it makes me laugh :)

i'm only thinking about your health

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 :)

poor megan

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!

annoying

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)

west elm

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

stop confusing your computer!

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 . . .

hawaii :)

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...

i got sushi :)

explanation for time...

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....

nush's computer is doing the weird thing again. . .

where the time stamp is actually like an hour later than the actual time. weirdo :)

how exciting

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 :)

new game

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 . .

yes, i think i have to go out tonight

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.

yay

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!!

miami

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 :(

crazy indian girls

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. . .

we're here!

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 :)

prob in a fake meeting :)

de shaw kidnapping!

fine fine.
and the other two? what is their excuse???

i wrote!

just didnt have a response to ekta cause ive always thought she was nuts, and figured you guys knew that :)

no love.

come on, where is everyone?! you gotta give me something . . .

ekta is a freak!

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.

good morning

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...

headphones

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 . . .

no, not a crisis!

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?

don't worry, i fixed it . . .

but it killed my battery fixing it! oh, wait . . . the battery just got more full . . . hmm . . . interesting . . .

ipod crisis!

my ipod froze! i don't know what to do!

i'm jealous

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!

leaving early!

as in NOW . . . i love it :)

oh how i suffer . . .

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 :)

delirious

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...

nuts

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 :(

muah

just wanted to make sure you are still alive :)

argh!

skolnik, defeo. . .are you just trying to get back at me for calling you mrs. metzger a few days ago??? ;)

whoa! you just made me jump up in my chair!

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. . .

dont worry though jules...

I think Mrs. Juliana Skolnik can still work :)

Mrs. Juliana DeFeo

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.....

my ipod is charging . . .

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?

im glad you like it :)

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...)

ditto

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?

blah

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

ditto...

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.

sooo sleepy. . .

how are the rest of you holding up?

back safe :)

hey all... good luck surviving work today! i'm glad we had so much time together this weekend... i wuv you guys :)