guessing no blog today

since anusha and megan are playing in nyc while the d. e. shaw girls are hard at work.

hope we all have a lovely weekend! :)

ok, i'm leaving!

that's it. i'm gone. i've been here 8 hours :) :) :)

since you love public transportation....

my method to get home, would be take the airtran to the jamaica stop, then take the E train to Spring st. Julie and rupa take the LIRR but then you have to switch at penn station and it end up saving you maybe 15 minutes but costs some amount of money (not a lot) and you risk getting lost :) but if they want to give you those directions, ill leave that up to them...

but if you take the E to spring, itll take maybe 45 min on the subway. when you get out of the subway station, call me :) ill be home waiting and ill come meet you!!!

i think we can figure things out with those clothing options...and if not, there is a cute store near us where they have cute shirts for 10-15 bucks...ive been meaning to go there and get new going out clothes since i hate all my clothes these days...

ohmygod what should i wear!

no, seriously . . . right now, i have a pair of tight jeans and a pair of black pants packed, the shirt i got when you guys were here, a black tube top, a black short sleeve shirt and the black tank top anusha gave me from her collection all those years ago (the cleavage shirt - the straw that broke the camel's back on alex and i hooking up for the first time - oh the memories . . .)

frankly, i don't know if i own anything more clubby these days. i'm hoping between those combos, you guys can dress me to go out in nyc for 3 nights.

and as for the temperature complaints - dude, i checked weather.com yesterday. 40s is not cold! 20s up here baby!!

so - i should be going to jules and nushies when i land, right? i know i've done it before - but is someone either planning on meeting me some place or can you give me a run done on train #s on how to get to spring st? (thats the subway stop, right?)

i LOVE public transportation! riding the T to get to and from logan when i was in boston for the parade made me so happy :)

heat

yea, jackie had to ask david to turn on her heat cause neither of us could turn the knob. you should just call him up tonight or something and ask him to do it. i think the pipes make noise even if it isn't on - you just have to turn it on to let the heat out. i'm not expert or anything (we definitely didn't grow up with heaters or radiators or whatever they're called in miami), but i think that's how it works.

we already got a promise of free drinks tonight for us (jackie and me) and all of our friends. josh (jackie's friend from manhattan who always invites us to his parties. rups, he's the one that throws strata) felt bad because he couldn't help us get 4 guys into suede on tuesday, so he told jackie that to make up for it he would make sure any guys that come out with her can get in, and that he'd buy us free drinks all night. woo-woo! so megan, i hope you're ready to party by ~11pm tonight! i think the party he throws tonight is vizcaya? i'm going shopping with jackie after work (i still need to get some secret santa stuff!), and then i'll try to go home and take a little nap before getting ready to go out.

meg, i can't believe you'll be here in a few hours!

:)

cant turn the knob on the heat :(

david (the super) was in the apt yesterday too! i should have asked him...

i just thought i didnt know what to turn but jackie told me she had to have him do it cause its shut so tight....the pipes in our rooms (i heard it in jackies) also make annoyingly loud noises so maybe it is on? if it isnt on i cant seem to understand why it would make those noises...

im still waiting for my review for the 3rd quarter :) then only can i start my 4th q self review....

i was wondering why you were sleeping in the living room

have you turned on the heat in your room? it's weird that your room is so cold - jackie's room was pretty warm this morning, and she has an a/c in her room, too.

i tried to get up at 6am this morning to hit up the gym before work. yea, that didn't work. i could just feel how cold it was out, so i decided to just eat healthy all day and skip the gym :) although, eating healthy is kinda hard with all this food lying around. . .

urgh. i need to write my self-review. it's due tomorrow (i'm such a procrastinator!). can somebody just tell my boss that i'm awesome and have him give me a huge bonus???

i feel a little better :)

megan, one of your tasks this weekend will be to help me take my airconditioner out...my room is freezing (i think maybe it just feels that way since im sick and even if its 100 degrees i think id feel cold) but anyway, thought id leave it in for you since you like the cold, but before you leave it has to come out!

i cant wait for this weekend :)

ice skating!

yes! but in central park, cause ive never been there...make sure you write down the discount that you get from work if we go

im going home now...allen left to get his haircut and said he wasnt coming back, so i responded with im gonna go home too :)

jules i wish we had the 5 movie thing now!! oh well i think ill watch sex and the city and sleep...so i can fell better for megan!

i'm sure you'll want to go out

but we can just play it by ear. i wouldn't mid staying home - i go out way too much anyways. . .i'm running out of clothes to wear to clubs!

last night jackie and i went out. she went to drinks after work with some work people, and she ended up talking to paul (not the paul that anusha and rupa know, another one), this guy that she thinks is really cute but he's like scared of girls or something because he just stares at her all day at work, he doesnt' talk to her. anyways, so after drinks they decided they wanted to go clubbing so i, of course, had to do my duty as a best friend and go with her. it was fun meeting this guy that she's been talking about forever, although it was also kind of weird because the guys were all really really fucked up.

tonight i just want to do my 2 hours at the gym and then go home and get some house work done. then tomorrow after work jackie and i are going to do some shopping. yippeee!

i just finished calculating a bunch of overtime hours that the company owes me (since july), so i'll probably be getting a nice chunk of change soon. yay!

and it's still so hard to believe that i'll be home next week. and that megan will be here tomorrow night. do you girls want to go ice skating one day this weekend?

weird

weird

you will want to play :)

but i'm happy doing anything.. we could go to free wine and just go out to a bar if the boys don't have an option for us to go to.. i just want us to all be somewhere together :)

ask me again thursday night

the reason i was thinking of staying in is because i've been getting up early the last couple of days and will again tomorrow (be in the lab around 7:30am) and i still have been going to sleep between 11 and 1 because i hang out with edgar after work and then jessie after she gets home from work. hopefully, i'll go to sleep early today because i won't see edgar and jessie will be there when i get home from work to hang out. but i was late handing over samples this morning (which, incidentally, was not my fault but the lady still acted mad at me) and she made sure i knew they needed them by 9:30 tomorrow morning or else wait until monday.

and, really, by the time i get to nyc i'm probably going to be so excited to see you guys that i'll ignore the obvious exhaustion and want to play anyway :)

let's see if it likes me . . .

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no staying in...

megan we should go out! julie and i were thinking free wine for dinner thurs when you get in (so we will go there around 10???) then go to wherever the boys let us in free...and if we dont like it like suede last time you were here we can always leave but we should at least go out for a little bit! plus when we go with jules and jackie everything is free :) thats def the way to go....

i feel like crap :( i didnt want to come in today but since im off friday i felt obligated to. i think i may leave early (although i said that yesterday and i was here till 630...)

sorry, i don't live by my calendar

anusha is usually my calendar, so she usually reminds me of important stuff i have to do. it's her fault for not reminding me when megan's getting in :)

joe (the guy that works with jackie. nush, you know him as the guy with the ugly shirt. rupa, you met him last sat) wanted to hang out on thursday night, but i'll tell him i'm busy with my girl megan. meg, you just wanna stay in on thursday?

its been in my calendar for weeks :)

rupa has a dinner to go to, so you should just come straight to our place and we can figure things out from there :)

details details . .

in case anyone was concerned, i'll be arriving on flight 33 (jetblue) at 8:30pm at JFK.
i will be taking off from JFK at 10:35pm on sunday on flight 30

i want to leave now too!

i was here at like 7:30 . . . so, i'm rapidly approaching that 8 hour mark! ok, i'll update the excel spreadsheets . . . then i'll go home :)

and tsk tsk julie . . . you aren't planning your entire week around my arrival thursday evening?! in case there was nothing planned, i wouldn't mind a very calm sedate boring thursday night to start of the wild crazy fun weekend :)

blah

i feel like crap. i think i may go home early. i really hope its just feeling empty and not feeling sick....the latter would be so much worse!!! :)

jules megan gets in thurs night

when do you get here again, megan?

i can't seem to remember if you arrive thursday or friday. . .

nush, we got to the salsa place yesterday (which is right by our apt, on 7th ave and houston), but they weren't having the lessons because they were closed for a private party. oh well, maybe next week.

today i'm going home after the gym, making dinner, cleaning up the living room and kitchen a little bit, and then passing out. i'm tired too, and i want to rest up for the weekend!

we'll take your mind off of him!

how will you be able to think about boys with all the hot babes around you this weekend?!?!

snow update - it stopped earlier but its going again. big fat flakes. it looks really pretty through the window . . . but i really hate driving in it . . .

not grumpy anymore

i decided today that i think ill take my aunt up on her offer to spend new years with her, arjun, and avinash. so i think im going to fly there wednesday night before new years until sunday. i think thatll be really fun :)

i was grumpy cause of dev (surprise surprise). im trying the real break now which started at 8 am this mornign when i left his apt. i wonder how long it will last....thankfully things will be really busy and hopefully will keep my mins off of it as much as possible (with megan coming, than PR next week, then DC the week after). maybe avoidance is second best therapy to a rebound person :)

jules, what was the deal with the salsa thing? i think ill go home, work out and then just go to sleep...

and swallow illegal drug pellets?

hey, i saw the movie! i know what you colombian girls are like!

i'm in a good mood today, but tired - i slept too much on sunday so i couldn't fall asleep sunday night - then yesterday, i was going from 8am until 11pm running errands and work - then jess wouldn't stop talking to me so i didn't go to bed until after midnight. and then i'm getting all of the RSV patients from this year and last year typed - so i have to get the samples ready for the lab that does it. so - i was here this morning at 7:30 and will be every day this week in order to get all 27 patients finished by thursday.

its snowing here! i had to brush off my car this morning before going to work. we're scheduled for another 1 to 3 inches today. the problem with the snow is that once it starts, it doesn't stop. now that its finally cold enough to form the snow - last year seems like it snowed 5 out of 7 days . . .

awww

why were you grumpy?? i always get a nice smile from the coffee vendor that i get coffee from occasionally, but i'm a little jealous that the starbucks people don't like me as much as they like rupa!

i'm tired today (surprise, surprise). i spoke to my mom and dad - they left for colombia on sunday. they both sound sooo happy! they're each staying at their mother's houses, so they're being spoiled rotten right now. i'm happy for them -they definitely deserve it. i don't think they've gone to colombia in like 3 years! i'm definitely jealous too, though. i wish i could sit in my grandmother's nice warm kitchen with them and have yummy food :)

grumpy mornings and nice people

unfortunately i dont frequent starbucks so no free coffee but the fruit stand guy that i walk by every day gave me lots of random free fruit this morning :) he asked for a hug after which i thought was totally sketch, but def still had more of a bounce in my grumpy walk to the office...

sorry so lost

but i'm here! just been busy and tired all day. had a really good weekend - went to tons of good restaurants and clubs. i love miami guys - they didn't let us pay for ANYTHING all weekend :)

i'm going home in a little bit 'cause i have some stuff to do (a.k.a. shopping), and then i think we're going salsa dancing tonight!

ok, please forgive me for neglecting you ladies. i love you all!

meg, can't wait to see you.

i have one!

i just don't update it :)

do you want an address book from your secret santa?

63 sullivan
apt 4
ny ny 10012

if anyone is looking for a cool cheap gift for someone who likes flower vases, crate and barrel has these awesome ones that are conical and roll on their side, so they dont stand upright, i think its called roly vase or something on the website...2 for 10 bucks...i just went to buy my dad glasses like that, and bought myself the vase and one fore kerry and ellen...

julie or nush

what's your address again?

similar complaints

so, apparently jessie felt the same way about me this summer - only on top of not seeing me, edgar was in her apartment all the time. i maintain she didn't talk to me about this - except the occasional hey, we don't hang out together which seemed more like a two way thing than all because of me. so, that is the one thing that came out of our talk - wednesday nights (her night off) we'd do something (gym, movies, etc.) and we'd hang out at least one morning on the weekend (sunday brunch, saturday morning shopping, etc) of course this weekend, i had my famiy thing saturday and she's been picking up shifts to save for the snowboarding trip with nadia, so she worked sat and sun morning. this weekend i'm in nyc, next weekend i'll be in buffalo, the weekend after that starts her 10 day vacation . . . then there will be one weekend in january we'll both be home then i'll be in florida . . . so, this *new agreement* will come in to play somewhere around the end of january. and of course, if her classes haven't started up, she'll probably work as many hours as possible to cover bills . . .

whoaaa

really? you are not renewing? thatllbe good for you and edgar...and i guess youre right, space will let you like her again cause itll be special when you hang out not just being home at the same time...

toral and i arent doing so well these days either - part of the blow up sat night where i made a complete fool of myself - but like everyone says, all that crap came from somewhere...

ever since rakesh came in the picture over 7 months ago, there hasnt been one night where she has given up hanging out with him to just have time with me...granted the few times we have tried something family related has come up which is def ok, but its not like the next weekend or the next day she even tries again. its always me asking and im sort of sick of it. im tired of cancelling plans i have with dev or anyone else to do something with her which i used to do alll the time before rakesh was in the picture and she wanted to come to ny every weekend but now she cant even spend a weekend apart from him to just hang out with me...we havent been just the two of us since well before my bday...i thought we had a "talk" after the episode sat night, but it still feels weird and still feels like unless i keep asking we wont have any alone time...

i guess the big thing ive learned from all this is that people have different priorities in life at different times and that has to be ok, even if 7 months can go by...thats a hard thing to get used to...

the fam

it was nothing. in fact, i would have felt weird without him. steve brought missy, my cousin kenny brought his gf, my cousin george brought his. significant other's were everywhere. we took a pic with grandma plus grandkids, then another one with grandma, grandkids, and dates. there was 30 something people there, so he didn't stand out. and for like an hour, he played halo 2 with a couple of my cousins while i played pool with steve, missy, and george's gf. the only weird moment was when my uncle asked how long we'd been together and there was a marriage joke made by my drunk aunt and my uncle was like no - they shouldn't be worried about marriage until late 20s! and edgar and i both shut up about the fact that he is in his late 20s.

as for the stuff with jessie . . . whatever. we talked, i don't know how much it changed anything except that maybe now she will talk to me about stuff when it bothers her. i think there is a definite unspoken agreement that when our lease is up in july, we will NOT be renewing it. i'm looking forward to a 1-bedroom and enough space from jessie to like her again.

how was meeting the fam???

what did you tell jessie??

my weekend

edgar got to meet my dad's side of the family on saturday!
i went out with gen and courtney on friday - i got hit on by two guys :) one was just gross, but the first guy was funny! he came up beside me and whispered (as much as you can whisper in a loud bar) i've got a step ladder back at my place. yeah, he was about a foot shorter than me . . . no chance of getting play, but he gets an E for effort.

sunday - i barely got out of bed :) edgar came over at like 11 and we laid in bed until 1. then went out for breakfast and got chai (that's our thing now - we're chai drinkers :) ) then we came back to my apartment and watched maria full of grace (again, in my bed - you can see where the 'barely got out of bed' came from) at like 9, he got to do my shopping with me :) walmart, then two different wegman's. yup, we are THAT domestic :)

i saw jessie for like an hour on friday night and for about 10 minutes on sunday. we talked on wednesday - so things are starting to get better. she's picking up extra shifts though to save money so she can go away for ten days around new years. i'm REALLY excited for those 10 days. she'll be happy because she's going snow boarding with nadia (friend from high school, i don't know if you guys know any stories) and i'll be happy because edgar can basically live in my apartment for that time.

in the short term, though, there is only one thing on my mind - NYC!!! everything is making me think about it. today, our lab meeting was really a prep session for a bigger presentation being given on friday. it was very very dry, and i would be dreading going to it again on friday but wait - i don't have to! i'm planning my experiments this week to be done by wednesday so i can just do non-intensive stuff on thursday. i've already started thinking about packing - and i'll probably start putting it in my bag tonight :) SO EXCITED!

fun weekend

hi!!! i had a really good weekend too.. basically b/c i did almost nothing. which i love.. i got to see nush on sunday and hang out with j/j on saturday. here's a picture from saturday!!!

happy monday.

subways..

2 gross subway experiences:
1. a guy tried taking pictures of me with his camera phone - i was totally grossed out
2. the subway at night smells like pee.

but i survived them both....

i had the best weekend, it was so relaxing and i got to do so much! saw a few movies, went to devs office party, WENT TO RUPAS APT (that was the highlight i think....)

megan - 4 more days!!!