nush, are you hooked yet? i probably won't make it home in time for gilmore girls :( i'm going to step aerobics at 6:45 - i guess working out is more important than tv.
i've looked at kmart and target and haven't found anything i like. hopefully anusha will have more luck at walmart :) you should give our microsoft tech support guy a big kiss if he can figure out how to mount it . . .
yay! i'm going home in like 35 minutes :)
if you like that one - go to walmart and what they have. it's a desk organizer. when i was looking there for desk stuff, they had a range from really crappy plastic to nicer wood stuff. and probably a lot cheaper :)
my cells are stimulated!
and i get to be back here around 7 . . . and i have a full day tomorrow. normally, i have a 4 hour break in the morning at this point in the experiment . . . but tomorrow i need to process blood with eun to make sure i know how - and that takes about an hour and change. and i need to go learn where to pick up blood for the study that starts next week and meet the people - which is all at another hospital. so, i think i'm actually going to be doing stuff and setting things up for next week during my break . . .
remember - gilmore girls tonight :)
i emailed them to see if they could think of a way to mount it :) ill let you know what they tell me...
i want to go home!!
the one thing i hate more about this job than lauren...although it takes a lot of time, so if i waste time while i do it, no one cares cause they feel bad for me anyway :) and i think i scored a free lunch out of it today...cause alex spelled a new guy here's name wrong, and they sort of all blamed me cause i think they think im the one who writes them all, i didnt correct them cause i dont really care, and then i told eric (the new guy) that it wasnt me who spelled it wrong he was like sorry i blamed you, ill take you out to lunch :) it sounds weird and maybe sketchy when i write it, but it wasnt at all :)
for the mail thing - i was thinking it should have separate slots cause we tend to separate it and put it on the counter, so it would be annoying to keep flipping through things, if its all for one person...and i def think we need a slot for menus...i dont think we need keys...
and id like the same brown as the wine thing, or white to match the wall/cabinets...maybe im unrealistic, but 50 seems like a lot for a piece of wood that holds our mail! im gonna look at walmart this weekend...
after seeing your requirements.. the hold everything one sounds best :) it's really dark wood.. the brownish black kind- has a few slots and is sleek/modern. the key hooks are nice too, not ugly. it's $58 which is a bit more than budget.. but i like it :)
i'm gonna call apple tonight about my ipod. i hope i didn't lose it all!!! jules, if i did, i need to get your latin stuff again too... i loved having those songs randomly come up when i'm listening.
you know you can erase whatever you don't like, right?? and, just as a disclaimer: i am not responsible for all of the music on my computer! a lot of the gay stuff is courtesy of peter ;)
rups - did you figure out what was wrong with your ipod? did you manage to steal megan's songs? if you did, i want to get them from you at some point. ..
i like rupa's version of megan's experiment better. although, thinking it over, i guess that means i wouldn't get to make out with ryan if megan comes here. hmm. . . also, with our busy schedules, i think we MIGHT be able to fit megan in sometime in november, maybe?
i'll look at hold everything when i get a chance. i don't know what jackie and anusha had in mind, but i was thinking of something dark (either black or dark wood) or ultra sleek/modern. i don't really care if it has separate mail slots or if it only has one slot. i guess at least 2 slots would be useful cause then we could put our menus there, too. same thing with keys - no definite requirement for key hooks. if it has them and it looks good, that's good. if it doesn't have them, it's ok too.
soo. . my only requirements are- basically, just something that'll hold mail (and maybe menus), looks good, and is relatively cheap ($30-$50 maybe?).
you girls want to help?
i like the thing from hold everything :) . . . in fact, i requested their catalog. because i need anything from there? no. it just made me happy to look at it online - think of how happy it will make me when it comes in the mail! i contemplated requesting the williams sonoma catalog too . . . but i thought killing trees for the sake of a catalog i know i will not buy from was bad enough, didn't want to kill twice as many with a second catalog i'll never buy from . . .
i just drank 2 fake-nalgene's worth of water which is making me feel better. i like megan's experiment idea, but i say we try keeping one variable constant (megan) and change the other (rochester). meaning.. megan you should come HERE and spend 2 days with us and see if it makes us feel better. :)
i love looking for homestuff.. can i help? there was one at hold everything that i was first looking at before jules and i got the orange thing from ikea. it was called something like "entry mail center". it was chocolate brown and had 4 slots for mail and key hooks. what do you guys want it to look like? super modern steel like? or wood? do you want different mail slots? or just one for everyone? do you need it to have spots for keys?
i mean, now that my whole life is research . . . i understand that you need to change the variables in an experiment in a very methodical way so as to get a clear idea of what that variable is responsible for. knowing this, if one possible reason for julie's and rupa's unexplainable illnesses is megan withdrawal . . . i think there needs to be an immediate return to rochester and an exact repeat of the last weekend to prove whether it is withdrawal from the weekend. if the symptoms go away, i guess you'd just have to move here . . . if not . . . well, you just get to see me again :)
sounds like you have such a demanding job!
nush - the cabinet from west elm is cute, but definitely not worth it. i'm sure we can find someting nice and a lot more reasonable.
i don't know what's wrong with me, but for the last two days, i've been getting really dizzy whenever i eat. i just had some cake and now i feel like crap :( rupa says she hasn't been feeling so hot, either. i think we're going through megan withdrawal!
so, eun wants me to use some program to play with data. the program is on the community computer in the lab. this morning (when i was signed up for it) one woman was using it. now (when i'm signed up for it) another girl is using it. its not very pressing and i don't really want to do it - but still! annoying! but since i don't want to do it - and there really isn't anything to do except play with the program and get to know how to do things, i'm just not motivated to make a scene (especially since i took a long lunch and was late for my time anyway)
this is cute! but its also 129....maybe target makes something like that....
http://ww2.westelm.com/cat/pip.cfm?template=8grid&pkey=cwalshv&gids=p186&cid=walshv&area=shp
it's screwing with our blog! ;)
i don't know why jackie called you - i told her i'd talk to you and figure it out. she was like: "yea, but i had two free minutes so i decided to call, too." it's good to know we're all on top of things and won't get evicted.
jackie and i keep looking for a mail thing, too, but we haven't found anything either. we're also looking for a napking holder, although jackie wants a cool one like they have in the restaurants, so i'll let her deal with that one.
i agree - this past weekend in rochester was very nice and relaxing. it's still hard to believe that we did nothing but watch tv all day sunday! and i loved every minute of it :)
argh! i ordered a bday cake for my office mate (nush, she's like your patty, except that i'm not as nice as you so i dont hang out with her), but the cake isn't here yet . . .
in one week!!!! so i wont be there for the happy hour. I need to figure out what kind of suitcase to bring! And I wanted to take a look in yours and Jackies closets for random summery dresses that would possibly cover my ass (if you guys have those...) i plan to shave every day next week :)
but next thurs when you have it you should discuss dinner at nobu :) im totally craving sushi...all the time
maybe ill go grab some for lunch today...rakesh cancelled lunch...
did you try the forgot your keys at home trick with nysc? i want to try to leave early today to go to the gym and be productive in studying...
my computer has been very confused with me today cause i keep switching from EST to time in Madras to find out what time it is for my mom :) my calendar has been confused cause of it and maybe thats why this thing got confused too...i just talked to my mom, and now i wont talk to her till tomorrow when she is in london (and that time difference i can do in my head and dont get confused about...) so hopefully no more BofA standard time issues.....
jules - jackie just called worried about rent...its nice to have other people worried about things instead of me for a change!!! i think thats what i needed...and this weekend of having no plans and not having to get up for anything and not having to do anything we didnt want to do made me realize that i kind of like that :) granted im busy for the next like 10 weeks, but after the exam...for me 2 months off before it all starts again i think i may adhere to this not planning and just doing thing.....lets so how long this lasts.....
my brother found some cute magnets yesterday that he brought for kerry so i told him to bring them this weekend and if i like them he can buy them for our fridge :) other than that i just want to get a thing for our mail! i keep looking online but everything looks like it is made for an 80 year olds cottage in the middle of the woods - why would they be getting mail anyway?? i guess i dont really know what im looking for....
where the time stamp is actually like an hour later than the actual time. weirdo :)
i can't believe you're going to hawaii!!! i'm still so jealous :)
i had a big greasy breakfast this morning - scrambled eggs and bacon from across the street, so i probably won't be hungry for lunch till much later. you can just leave me the check when you go home tonight to drop off your stuff. i didn't try going to nysc - there's no point in trying to go without any keys at all. i'm just going to stick to ballys :)
well, to me. i was sitting at my desk thinking about how i could waste time . . .and then i realize i have a brand new ipod sitting in front of me that does more than play music! so, i started exploring . . . and found the games. eaverything was silly except . . . the music quiz! this last game, i got 10 out of 10 right! ok, sometimes its in spanish and i just pick out whatever title is in spanish . . there is a lot of spanish music on this thing!
just wanted to share :)
i think i'll go eat lunch . .
hopefully it'll be an early night, though. i also want to go to the gym and to the grocery store after work, so i don't know if i'll have time to do everything i want to do. . .
nush - jackie postponed the happy hour at our place with all her co-workers till next thursday. poor jackie - she's going to be alone all weekend again. well, i guess not completely alone - her aunt is coming up from miami to go shopping, so jackie will have company during the day (she's staying in a hotel).
i'm still tired too! and i spent a lot of the morning paying off some bills. writing out a check for my student loans always puts me in a bad mood! blah.
tuesdays are normally my crazy day and our morning meeting (the one with jules and 20 other people) was cancelled. my afternoon with the guy that i really don't like from work (my old officemate) was ALSO cancelled.
woo hoo!!
i totally forgot you were leaving on thurs!
good thing we all hung out in rochester all weekend so i got my fill of julie and rupa time too :) jules are you still going to lotus tonight? i need to go home to get rid of this heavy bag but i think ill go back to devs tonight...
im still tired :(
so did you give ekta your number? did she wish you a happy birthday?? she is nuts. what else did she talk to you about?
rupa brought me coffee from desrad's new expensive (and already broken) espresso machine. it was still good, though :) too bad the frother is broken. . .
it's so crappy and rainy out. and i can't believe i'm going home on thursday! i can't wait to see my family :) maybe i can convince my mommy to take me shopping. . .
d.e.shaw hasn't kidnapped us :) at least not yet. i slept in too this morning after holden's thing.. and then was a little busy this morning. jules might still be ordering a bday cake for her favorite officemate (cari 2).
not much going on here.. i didn't really work much yesterday so today i'm playing catch up. happy tuesday :)
just didnt have a response to ekta cause ive always thought she was nuts, and figured you guys knew that :)
i signed online to see if jessie was around and then someone came to talk to me, so i got distracted. i look back at my computer and ekta has imed me. someone has sent her a text but blocked the number so she is quizzing me as to whether i've sent her my number and/or changed it recently and/or have cingular. THEN she asked me about nush and rupa. she never told me what the text said, i never asked. i was just so annoyed that she thinks one of us is going through the effort to send her some text and block the number and otherwise not identify ourselves! i'm assuming it wasn't anything bad - i would guess she wouldn't assume it was me had it been - but still! freaking annoying.
i had a wonderful night :) unfortunately i was at work till 615, and dev told me around 530 that he was going to work all night so we prob wouldnt get to hang out. i was sad cause all i wanted was to lay down and hug him and now he was telling me i wasnt even going to see him! but then at 6 he called and was like why dont we have dinner then we can hang out for an hour and ill come back to work...which i also wasnt excited about cause the thought of sitting at a restaurant didnt seem possible to me - i thought id just fall asleep while i was walking...
anyway we had a good dinner (bad food, but good compnay) then went back to his apt around 745, took a nap till 930, he got up to go to the office to get some work done, i was too lazy to go all the way home, so i just slept...he got back at midnight, we talked a bit (i think seattle next summer is a very possible scenario...) then went to sleep. he got up at 630 to go to some stupid meeting in nj (hence the moving to seattle soon cause this job is getting ridiculous...) i went back to sleep, got up at 8, showered (jules - they cleaned the bathroom), wore my new HM shirt, and was here by 830!
i think i may stay there again tonigth cause wednesday he leaves for atlanta....and i like being able to roll out of bed and be at work....
jules - im meeting rakesh for lunch around noon - do you want to meet up and i can give you the check now?
ok back to work...
i don't think i like the headphones that come with the ipod . . . i feel like my ears are getting stretched funny! i think i have another set of headphones at home that i'll switch to . . .
whenever your ipod freezes (which shouldn't happen too often), just hold down the play/pause and the menu buttons at the same time. after a little bit, the ipod will reset.
i decided to let myself sleep in a little bit today, so i woke up at 8 instead of 7. whoo-pee! i'm still a bit tired. holden's stand up comedy thing was allright yesterday. not too exciting - i guess open-mic night must be tough.
megan - how's the ipod doing?
how is everyone else this morning?