well, according to my horoscope. . .

i won't be super boring for much longer! this is what my horscope said today:

It's been days since you've been in the mood to go out and socialize, and you're worried. Could this be a permanent thing for you? Nah. This, too, shall pass -- by late tonight, and that's a promise. At that point, the stars slip out of the comfy-cozy jammies they've been wearing in your house of secrets, and are ready, willing and able to make up for any lost time. So, as per usual, expect to be burning the candle at both ends as you party on down. Better?

nush, i'll give evelyn your number so she can call you when she gets into the city. her cell phone starts with (919). enjoy the movie!

wow we are boring these days...

i didnt have a computer for like 4 hours cause they were fixing it; i thought id come back to at least something!!

i went to pilates while they fixed it :) then ive just been reading..just got it back and plan on leaving at 5:00 on the dot!

talk to you all (except jules) on tues...jules see you late tonight/tomorrow morn! i bought eggs so ill make breakfast if everyone wants...

nothing interesting and new going on here

i would have blogged but i have nothing to say! it's hard to be excited about tonight when it's so gross and crappy out, although i guess it's supposed to stop raining by this afternoon.

yay for 3 day weekends!

im here late and no blogs yet!!

rupas in miami already i think...megan are you working today? jules i bought 2 dozen eggs at eckerd - they had a feb 4th sell by date so i thought 2 dozen would def be necessary...i would have bought milk too but didnt know we were out till i got home...

my new wallet and computer are awesome :) im so happy with my new toys!

use julie

send julie to the apple store with you ipod - they love here there and give her free anything!!!! :) but if that doesnt work, the extra money for latest and greatest is definitely worth it!

yay

all these fun toys coming :)

i have decided to get an ipod photo! i have to lay my ipod down to rest as it never came back after the whole fiasco on my way back from rochester... i have tried to fix it myself.. to get it covered under warranty.. nothing. :( so basically i'd have to spend $250 fixing it.. when i could just spend twice that for a new one :) ok it makes sense in my head.. actually i've found a place that sells ipod photo for only $420 which is just a lil more than the regular 40gig price and i can still buy applecare so i'm gonna do that.

the only other prob was that it wouldn't fit into the speakers that jules is getting me.. but i read all these message boards and finally talked to a live friend of a friend that has the onstage WITH an ipod photo and it works fine! which means photos for me! it's kinda a waste of money in that it's not that impressive or that much better than the regular 40 gig but for only a lil more money i do get to play with my photos.. and that means being able to walk into someone's house- hook it up to a tv and show them all my pics. plus i get a lil thrill out of having the latest and greatest when it comes to lil gadgets.

i think i'm gonna go to the apple store monday night and play with them.. although i may order my photo thing tonight so that it comes in next week.

i'm still bored.. bah.

mines fedex

so i have to walk a lot farther to get it...i dont know where the ups place is but i think thats a lot closer to the apt..

did you go get a power work out in to wake you up? i cant wait to go home and play with my computer :) hopefully i can figure out the internet....

sweet!

jackie has to go pick up her speakers, too, so maybe you guys can go over there together.

i just wanna go home. i'm so bored and sleepy!

my computer is here :)

of course they tried delivering it and no one was home...oh well...i think ill go there after work and pick it up at around 8

in a good mood now

i was in a bad mood cause i was hungry and i was supposed to have a meeting at 1130 and she never showed up and i waiting till 1. so then i was starving..

i went out for a walk - decided to stop in to fendi and gucci to see what i could buy myself with my bonus money that i get in feb...ended up seein a gucci wallet that matches my purse now (brown and green) for only 150! on sale from 325...i think im going to go buy it after work today. i keep thinking about it - so if its there at 5 or 6 ill get it then go home and just relax tonight. rupa let me know where you end up going - if it is within a few blocks from my place ill come out for a drink but dont plan around me! id be totally happy watching a movie/reading at home....

miami

rups, the weather will be mid-70s to low 80s (and maybe a bit cooler at night). unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be rainy the next couple of days! :(

i wouldn't completely rule out beach days, though, miami weather can be a bit unpredictable. . .

meg, i'm glad it went well! and i'm also jealous that you get to go home now. i wish i could go to. . .

evelyn's coming this weekend! i'm so excite! i think she's getting in tomorrow at like 9, so i guess she'll meet up with jackie and me at some point. then saturday she wants me to go to the apple store with her so she can get herself an ipod :) she's going to be in ct for the next month, then pittsfield MA for the next 5 or 6 months. i love having her in the northeast :)

nush, i'll be around this weekend so i'm sure i'll hang out with you and your cousin at some point. . .

sorry rups, i'm def not up for going out tonight - i need to get my beauty sleep since i'm going to partying all night tomorrow!

have fun megan!!!

:)

ha ha ha

you are sweet... i'll email him a lil later today.. :)

rupa: email him

i responded to his generic email this morning basically saying i know you wont respond cause 1000 people are writing to you but good luck, and make sure you use the camera and the ipod :)

he wrote back...so you should write to him!

do you leave tonight???

how exciting for you and rupa...luckily for me and jules its warming up a bit here...

i'm back!

it went well, not amazing - but let's be serious, i wasn't expecting amazing. it was good to have people look at my data and give me suggestions on how i could fix things and what the flaws may be. and in the beginning, eun spoke up to mention something else (which i didn't really think was worth mentioning, but whatever) and was like i haven't seen any of megan's slides - so, it was good to have that laid on the table (that my boss wasn't super there for me) without having to say it. i think i came across pretty well - and it wasn't so bad because we always get sidetracked. i purposely posed some questions to set up for sidetracking, so i probably was only the center of attention for like 20 minutes of the hour and a half.

now, i think i'm going to be worthless for another half an hour and then go home and pack :) i have been in this lab WAAAY too much lately (i added it up - something like 33 hours logged in BEFORE i got here this morning) which, for you big city/high profile girls may not be much, but i've had just about enough of this lab for one week!

i was so nervous last night that - on top of not going to bed until almost 2 - i couldn't fall asleep. and then when i did, i woke up again a little after 4 and didn't fall asleep again until 5ish and finally gave up and got up at 6:30. so, its starting to hit me how tired i am :)

i love having things to read :)

i liked the atmosphere at asia de cuba. we sat upstairs but i wish we sat at that big table that we kept looking at...

that was one of my bday dinners with dev. but i agree - sushi samba is still my fav :) i def want to go there when im done with phase 1! do you think they do sushi with brown rice?

rupa i looked at that menu - its making my mouth water - but its a little too expensive. my cousin will never let me pay and i dont want to make him take me to such an expensive place - especially when you convert to rupees - hed do it but id feel bad...

im impressed with my will power too :) i dont know if its worked...i feel like it has, but i also have worked out every day for the last 3 weeks, so i feel like that has to have something to do with it too...last night i made south beach version brocc casserole - basically just broc and sour cream :) it was really good...

jules - i hope this weekend you have some time to hang out wth my cousin - he is i think the best cousin in the family - very smart, very fun, very brave...maybe saturday we can all go to brunch or maybe ill make brunch for everyone...

asia de cuba

yeah i think asia de cuba's whole thing of latin/asian is what all the places try to do.. i just think places like sushi samba seem to do it better :)

i'm so impressed with all your willpower to stay on that south beach diet when you guys are tempted by all these restaurants.. and you guys look great already!! lobster mashed potatoes would do me in.. i wouldn't be able to just have a small taste.

so jules- it's not gonna really be beach weather in miami right now, right? i could just go to weather.com but i like blogging it better :)

anyone up for going out tonight? i guess not if jules wants to be in bed by 11 but one of my friends is in town from california- indian friends- and i think we are gonna meet up downtown somewhere for a drink.

speaking of people in town.. nush i never responded to that email of yours about thai food.. have you thought about just taking him to kittichai? it definitely won't be cheap (i don't remember if that was one of your requirements) but is supposed to be good.. otherwise i'll keep thinking and will let you know. moush is my ms. zagats so i may ask her.

megan- my parents are big wegmans fans now :)

megan, megan bobegan. . .

looks like megan't the theme of the morning, so i decided to stick with it ;)

drinks and dinner last night were a lot of fun. the candidate accepted our offer in the middle of the day, so it makes the sell day a lot more fun because there isn't pressure to get him to accept. the food at asia de cuba was really good, but i was a little unimpressed with the restaurant itself. i guess i was just expecting something bigger and more exotic. no one went wild and got drunk at dinner yesterday, but it was still a fun time.

today i feel gross, though. i stuck with south beach friendly foods all night and just had a small taste of the plantains, lobster mashed potatoes (which were great), and dessert, but i still ate way more than i have been eating in the past couple of weeks. i think i'm just going to fast all day today to make myself feel better.

today i'm going to the gym after work, then cleaning the bathroom when i get home before i go get a manicure and pedicure :) i love pampering myself. and i also hope to be in bed by like 11. . .

rupa, good luck getting all your work wrapped up today! i'm so jealous you're going to miami. . .

yay megan!

i hope it all goes really well today. i'm glad that you are gonna be witty..nervous.. and candid- it'll be easier to do it being yourself than trying to be all stuffy and formal :) let us know how it goes.

dinner was super fun.. i met lots of random people that went to college or high school with kate and they were all pretty great. they went to a movie after but i ended up going home and meeting up with anuj's girlfriend uptown.

that place is really good though.. it's in chinatown and looks like a random chinese place but the food was awesome! and super cheap :) we should try that out.. kate has apparently been going there since she was a kid.

no special email from ameya.. but i'm happy :) i just wanted to hear that he was ok and settling in etc and it sounds like things are really exciting. i don't think i'm gonna call anytime soon- i'll miss him more if i talk to him.. so i think i'll wait a few weeks or so.. and you're right, i'll have more stories to tell than just me missing him :)

i leave for miami in the morning so today's gonna be a lil crazy with work but i'll blog every once in a while. megan is it a lil warmer up there? it's super foggy but really warm here :) walking to the subway felt like walking on clouds or something.. and i don't mean it like the cliche :)

good luck megan!

what time did you go back/finish? how did it go???

a tech caller called me at work last night - i listed that as my home number :) and actually left a message thanking me for my last donation in may! i thought if people gave money we just threw them in a pile and didnt care about them...i mean they didnt help us to the real goal of the program - winning free movie tickets...

last night i went to pilates which was a complete waste of my time. the guy was fat and horrible. but at least now i know not to schedule gym time around his pilates classes - which are a lot of the time! then i watched herold and kumar go to white castle. it was funny but stupid...makes you want to hear a guys conversation when you walk by them at a bar or something...

this morning, did a spinning class and am now here...

rupa how was dinner, what time do you leave tomorrow? did you get a special email from ameya? are you going to try calling him?? i think you can...maybe wait until after this weekend - it would have been a week and youll have tons of stories to tell about the bachelorette party...

youll be happy to know i talked to my roommate this morning, so i have no house related topics to overwhelm the blog with...

about half way done

so, i've gone over what i'm going to present to gen and she's really great so she was being all critical and then going through what she thinks i should have in it and checking what i've done.

i've got all the background of the study and my analysis finished. i have some of the graphs all done and want to do a few more - but i've been working on this none stop, so i think i'm going to go home for a little while then come back again (i miss college where dinner was downstairs and you could return whenever) plus, i can park close now and that way i won't have to be hungry and walk 20 minutes by myself late at night.

i'm feeling really good about it though because gen and courtney approved some of my jokes and said tim wouldn't hate me or think i'm disrespectful (the title is RSV Challenge (the study name): and then in smaller print so much data, so little experience) and i have an all about me slide next that the last line is First time giving a lab meeting so . . . be gentle, its my first time. i figure if i make myself seem witty yet nervous and a bit over my head with all the data, i'll evoke sympathy and likeability to make the rest of the presentation go by with constructive criticism (which i want and need) and no god she's an idiot condecending remarks :)

i'll blog again tomorrow :)

:)

that sounds so exciting. you can explore the city with this girl! go to baseball games, play in the park, etc etc!! :)

rupa im not going to come to dinner...we are going out for drinks (but im not going to drink cause i want to do pilates) then watch a movie and fall asleep...have fun though!

jules see you at home...megan im looking forward to hearing about how you kicked ass on the presentation

:-D

i just found out more about my little girl! i passed the other background check, so i'm all clear to meet her at the buddy party at the end of this month. like i said before, she's 7 years old, her family is puerto rican.

Fun Facts:
School: She's in the second grade and is doing well. She is good about doing her homework.
Likes: (She has so many) Shakira, singing into a microphone, she likes to paint flowers, color, play ball, watch the yankees, play with hair, play tag (where she is good at catching the other girls), pizza, McDonalds.
Dislikes: None that she expressed

i can't wait to meet her!

nush, i'm so excited about your computer! the ups package they tried to deliver yesterday was jackies's speakers, so i think she's going to try to go pick them up today. megan, i'm sure you'll do great on your presentation!

rupa and nush, i'm pretty sure i'm going to dinner after work. i'im so tired, though. i just want to go home, clean the bathroom, and pass out.

i'm getting my nails done tomorrow! and then jackie's party on friday.. . i'm so excited!

blah - can't believe i need to sit here for another 45 minutes :(

yay

potluck and tv sounds good :) i'm glad you are blogging b/c i keep checking and like having things to read.

i get to buy a sofa and other furniture for our lounge! how exciting!! this is our office lounge.. which means it's someone else's money that i would be spending which is great!!

i'm really bored at work today with lots of crap to do... blah. nush i'm so excited for dinner.. i just read reviews and this place is supposed a great cheap but good food find.. i hope you decide to come!!! :)

im blogging alone but i dont care :)

cause i have lots of random tid bits to say...

rupa - i cant watch desparate housewives this weekend, and since youll be in FL - you should just wait till next sunday and we can have a double feature and a pot luck :)

megan - my group loves you

i just offered to share my senseo with the group, provided they purchase a mini fridge for that cube to hold milk and stuff :) that way my life is easier (the cube is right next to mine) and everyone gets good coffee...

THEY SHIPPED MY COMPUTER TODAY!!!!

and my cousin (the one from vancouver who had the burn accident last summer) is coming to NYC for business this week and is going to stay with me this weekend!! Im not going to CT anymore, or will go later, but im really excited. I cant wait to see him...

good luck megan!

youll be fine! you survived mit...you can do this, especially when you have your friends there to teach you how to use the machines...

rupa - call me when you are leaving for dinner...ill decide then...

dinner

is at big wong's.. this place that is supposed to be good at mott and canal. so yeah i'll be around there :) nush - if you do want to skip pilates.. you should just come to dinner. this is basically a few work people who are the happy fun kind and kate's college friends who are fun.. i think you'd like them :) i think big wong's is chinese.

let me know.. otherwise i'll be free at 9 and can meet up. i don't want to be out too late but we can do something.. jules will you be at dinner still then?

good luck megan!!! i'm sure you won't see this till later but we love you and you are gonna be AWESOME tomorrow (glad to hear the girls are being supportive).

i'm slipping on the whole holding up thing... for the most part i've been ok at being fine and happy and not missing him but man.. i do miss him :) not even the quasi-whatevership that we are in since i talked to him, i just miss his being around.

my one blog

i too was up early. i was sitting in the lab by 8, working on my presentation. courtney made me happy today because she sat down and helped me with some stuff. basically, all the girls are really supportive and don't want me to be scared.

BUT the program i need to use to graph stuff is on this computer - but only from a different login (which i didn't discover until this morning) so instead of figuring out how to change the setting right now, i'm just going to sign in under a different name - and shut off all email/blog contacts!!!

wish me luck :) tomorrow morning at 9 . . .

no time for pilates during lunch

so im gonna go at 730 in soho..rups if you are around that area/dinner is over around 830 or 9 ill meet up with you...

sleep

its quite possible that after your dinner ill be asleep :) but call me anyway when you are done...the weather is way to gross for ice skating. tomorrow is supposed to warm up and not be too cold..maybe thatll work...

not going

hi :) i'm not going to the sell day... but i am gonna go to dinner for this birthday of this girl that works for me.. nush- wanna hang out after that?

i think they are doing dinner and a movie but i don't really want to go to a movie. jules- you should go to asia de cuba!! sounds really fun :)

i am sleepy and not as productive.. but it's nice to hear about your mornings :) that really inspires me.

and i'm holding up ok.. trying to detach myself. :)

asia de cuba

you should def go! the food is really good, which to me is surprisingly for such a swanky place - i usually only like drinks at swanky places :)

maybe we can go ice skating tomorrow...

rupa - how are you holding up? are you going to the sell day stuff too? if not, want to hang out later?

megan - hows the presentation prep going?

i have lots of crap work to do and i dont want to do it at all....hence the blogging and adding to netflix :) jules im gonna bring hidalgo home this weekend and watch with my parents, then ill send it back...

me too!

i went to bed at like 10:30 because i was exhausted, went to a spinning class at 6:45 this morning, and had a great workout! usually i'm still sleepy and really half-assed in the mornings, but today i had a great workout. i got to work at 8:30 - it's now 9:30 and there's NOBODY here yet. i guess the rain is slowing everyone down.

nush, jackie and i talked to paul to go ice skating today with him and joey, but i think we'll have to cancel it because of the rain. . .

i have a sell day today for one of our candidates - drinks from 6:00-7:45, then dinner at asia de cuba at 8. i don't know if i'm going to dinner - i guess it depends on who else is going and if we go ice skating or not.

blah. i guess i have to do some real work now. hope you all have a great day :)

its not even 9 and ive been so productive

I went to bed last night at 10 cause I was exhausted, so at 615 when I woke up I decided to go to the gym. usually im not as productive in the mornings cause it takes me longer to get my legs moving - but i did 5 miles in 45 min on the ellipical! which i usually never do...i think ill go to pilates during lunch today too...

then i came home, showered, had my laundry picked up, made eggs for breakfast, and got here at 830 - before everyone else :) which i love doing...

geez i feel like ive done a whole days worth of work and am ready for thursday...

a girl in my office got engaged this weekend :)

rupa/julie - jackie talked about going ice skating last night but since everyone was at the gym etc we didnt go...want to go tonight or tomorrow night?

going home

ive been unproductive lately...im going to go home...and relax for a bit then go to the gym. hopefully jackie will go with me..

rups i may not go to new orleans - just if i can find someone to go with...dev may be an option but i think thats a bad idea...my parents may be an option - ill ask this weekend..

and it was more of a "if julie isnt here anyway thing" so if she isnt in miami then ill most likely stay and megan can come...

we live together - but i still feel like i never have time/place to tell her everything i have to say!

ok im going home...im tired...

is the common computer the one with all the data on it? i love MIT people.. just no frills.. not too melodramatic :) except anthony of course. sounds like everyone is just blah before thursday? is that why courtney and gen are being worse than usual?

less than an hr left :) i think ameya's being away has made me surprisingly productive. :) i cleaned the whole apt this weekend.. sanded all this wood for a project last night and now just got through my entire to-do folder!!!

don't you two live together?

the blog is you guys chatting back and forth now :)

so - courtney is annoying me a little less because i think its not her being holier than thou to me thats putting her in a bad mood, its that a project that she has worked on and is perfecting is potentially going to get handed off to a prep student in the lab so the prep student has interesting data to apply to grad school with. basically, tim (the bossman) is giving courtney a slap in the face and she's really pissed off.

PLUS! i've been sitting at the common computer in between jonathon (the computer guy) and pranav (a dorky undergrad who is now graduating a term early and will be working full time from now on) i think i love them. they are very MIT and it makes me happy. they just plug away at their stuff without getting gossipy or overly annoyed at how the world has wronged them (which is the main thing i don't like about gen and courtney)

back to a little more work. i plan to leave by 6.

:)

if you don't end up doing new orleans that weekend.. can we do my bday that weekend? otherwise i'll celebrate it with jules on her cruise ;)

the movies were good

i liked them both :)

yea, the cruise would be from miami going just to key west and cozumel. leaves thurs afternoon, arrives in miami mon morning. spikey is finding out prices for me, but he says end of april the prices are usually pretty good since spring break is over. tentatively, i'm looking at a cruise departing april 21st.

nush, i don't know when i'm going to miami in feb, but i think it's actually going to be before the 15th because that's when my cousin is celebrating her bday. i want to book my flight soon, though, so if i don't hear anything from her, i might just plan my trip around my mom's arrival (which, also, is still uncertain).

new orleans will be fun! :)

welcome back miss julie

did you like the movies? wow we are being really good about netflix this month...or this week..

a cruise sounds fun! from miami? i may not be able to go since im using so much of my vacation now for japan. and thatll start to be crunch time for studying...but i probably could be convinced :)

did you find out when you are going to miami in feb? if you arent here that last weekend i may go to new orleans - i have to be there for work mon and tues and i may go for the weekend...not sure yet...

better late than never. . .

hi girls! sorry, busy busy day over here (like always).

the snow does look pretty! i'll be hating it when i need to walk through slush and mud later (if it sticks).

meg, don't stress your lab meeting! i'm sure you'll be fine. you should have as much confidence in yourself as we do :)

nush, i'm glad you liked meet the fockers. i thought it was really good, too. last night jackie and paul took down our xmas tree - the living room looks so empty now! we also watched garden state, and then i watched breakign all the rules, so i sent those back today.

so, i think i want to go on a 4 night cruise for my bday. i'll give you more details later in case you guys want to come, but i just thought i'd mention it in case you guys wanted to start thinking of your vacations this year. . .

ok, back to work

i hate the dentist.

i just paid my first dentist bill ever - and i guess i thought it would be like health insurance where i go in, they charge my insurance a lot of money and i pay them like 5 or 15 bucks. nope. i had to shell out 150 bucks to fill two small cavities :( and there is a bigger one starting that he says is a differnt procedure that is going to cost 250...im not happy at all. why isnt dental insurance like health insurance?? or is my health insurance just really good and my dental insurance crappy? i dont get it...i need to ask my mom how much we used to pay growing up/she still pays cause i dont like it one bit.

rupa i havent seen the apple thing - dev emailed me about it too - he is going to get the new cheaper ipod i think...who knows..his email questioned apples desire to keep the luxury brand that was so emphatically discussed on sat :)

back to the anger - i feel like my mouth is 10 times the size that it actually is and i cant eat for 3 hours even though the filling is supposed to be so good (hence the 150 bucks) that i should be able to, but just to be safe im not allowed to. i hate the dentist.

presentation

are they presenting with you? i think you will be fine.. don't stress! and it doesn't seem like eun helps you much anyway.. so it's ok that she's away :)

yay for FL... you'll have so much fun with his friends.

you guys should go to apple.com when you have a chance.. the new toys are out! there is a $500 mac mini computer out and there's also a new ipod that's $99 or $149

ameya hasn't called.. although i'm trying not to wait to hear from him :) i'm assuming he'll send some email at some point to me or to everyone that says he made it ok and is settled... but maybe he hasn't figured out his computer/internet/life there yet :)

i was gonna call the mom to see if he reached ok.. but that seems a lil too wifey-like so i won't. it's snowing! it looks so pretty out

my data

sooo i don't know what i'm supposed to be able to show - that's part of the problem.
and now, since i'm obviously unprepared, gen and courtney have gotten this your a little slacker attitude, so its pissing me off and making me weird about asking them questions. i am looking forward to this trip to florida!!!!

my update is that im still sleepy

nothing exciting, just work...

did ameya call?

no updates since morning?

jules and i were in our meeting.. but are back now :) till our next meeting at 1:30. megan- good luck. you still have 2 days.. you will totally be ready. i think you should just burn it on CD so then you don't have to worry what laptop is used.

i'm sure you'll be able to figure out how to setup your data.. what exactly are you supposed to be able to show them?

i'm bored today.. but still catching up on things from the last week. yay!

u can do it

burn a cd - that sounds like a good idea.

rupa - are you feeling better? no need to give up free coffee for innocent flirting :) we wont tell ameya ;)

we saw meet the fockers last night - it was soo funny. but now im exhausted....he leaves for seattle today for a week and a half.

back to work :( i just want to sleep!

this is me, officially freaking out

so, i may or may not have to give lab meeting on thursday. if i do - i'm TOTALLY freaked! i'm not ready. at all. even simple things like the programs to make the graphs are on one computer, but not on mine. should i create the whole presentation on that computer and then burn a cd? and when i do this, what laptop gets used for presenting???

PLUS! i have no idea how to set up my data. at all. and eun's on call until thursday - so she'll just make it in time to see me bomb.

yup. getting nervous. starting to feel sick. AHHHHH!

good morning girls!!

i got some free starbucks today.. but now it's making me not want to go back to that starbucks b/c i think the guy is hitting on me... last time it was a girl but this time it's the older guy who always sees me with gerry. he asked what happened to my boyfriend :)

how is everyone doing today? sorry i missed the end of the day.. i felt really sick from the night before's italian and the lack of sleep so i went home to nap in the afternoon..

it was nice.. i didn't really end up napping but i did clean the living room and watch sex and the city. super productive monday :) megan- your anniversary night sounds incredible. i love that he treats you like a princess. you ARE a princess :) and i love that he can cook enough to think of adding baileys to fondue.

well i hope everyone has a happy tuesday... jules and i have our long weekly meeting again (blah!) but at least it means i see her for an hr and a half and that there is free fruit! that's always the best part of tuesdays.

everyones so busy...

:-/

i guess it always takes time for the person on that end of things...and its probably even harder to be told that from your best friend..

im gonna stay at devs tonight, but ill be home tomorrow if you guys dont end up taking it down tonight, we can do it tomorrow. i took out uma chittis with just avinashs help and it was like twice the size of ours so we prob dont need peter or pauls help! we are strong girls :) if you do take it down though, can you please just put my ornaments on my bed...ill wrap them and put them back in that bag for my mom to take home...a few broke last year and that always makes me sad...

could you also just tell jackie not to worry about friday - ill just go home friday. my mom needs to plan her music teaching schedule and cant do it so close to the end of the week...so ill just tell her to plan around picking me up on friday night. tell her i said thanks though :)

joe and peter

i think technically i'm joe's date since he bought my ticket, but i think i'll probably hang out with jackie more than with joe. in my opinion, he's scared of girls and doesn't know how to talk to me, so i dont think hanging out with him all night will be much fun. oh well, we'll see.

i don't know what's going on with peter. he's been super weird and distant for the past week or so. i guess he just needs a little bit of space, i don't know. and his away messages are always super dramatic and stuff - just sappy quotes about love and life. we used to email and talk all day at work, but he's been pretty much ignoring me. oh well, hopefully he'll get over it. he was supposed to come over yesterday to help us take the tree down but of course, he cancelled, so paul's going to come over after work to help us do that.
anusha - jackie is still finding out about the ticket for friday. she said she'll have a definite answer for you by tomorrow.

both i believe...

jules - when you give megan the update on joe, also give an update on peter...you and jackie were very odd when i asked where he was last night...did he say/do anything other than not show up to go shopping with you guys on sat?

jackie's company party?

so are you joe's date or jackies???

sorry ladies,

but mondays are my busiest days. megan, sounds like you had a great night thursday! i'm so jealous. i wish i had a guy to pamper me like that. . .

i had a nice weekend - pretty uneventful, i decided to take it easy since i feel like i'm getting sick. watching desperate housewives at rupa's last night was fun, though. this friday is jackie's company party, so i'm looking forward to that :)

dont run away! im here!

that was so nice to read megan :) im glad you had a lot of fun. FL should be fun too! weekend get aways are the best...

things here are pretty busy since im gone for 2 weeks in Feb, I have to get a head start on all that work and get it done now...

other than that life is same old...

oh, mondays . . .

where's you all go!!
I read Friday's blog while i was using the super fast computer (at 7 at night) . . . there was so much chatting! now that i'm here - nothing :( and i'm only going to be here for about 10 to 15 minutes! then i'm running away . . .

my big long blog

sorry i disappeared - friday ended up being a lot longer than i thought. we got all these age matched control samples for a study that was done last year - and it took a very long time. as in - i left the lab at about 8:30pm Friday night. I didn't come in until 11:30ish because the samples wouldn't be here until then and i knew it would be a late night - but still! I never even turned on my computer because I only had about a 15 minute break (that i spent getting something to drink from the cafeteria).

soooo - thursday night. I got home at sixish. he met me at the door and told me to close my eyes and turned off all the lights - he had cleaned my room so that he could cover every available surface with little candles - including above the door frames. he took of the door to the bathroom and moved all the stuff out of there too and that was covered with candles - including a cluster that spelled out I heart U. he had unhooked the shower and duct taped the drain and set up a bubble bath for me and had gotten a chocolate fondue set, so i had chocolate fondue (pound cake, strawberries, bananas and shortbread cookies). he got milk and dark chocolate and mixed it together with baileys - so it was damn good fondue! he made me a martini while i was still soaking :) after about an hour in the tub (getting fed fondue the whole time) and i got out and got a big long massage :) Then, he made us dinner - steak and mashed potatoes. and made me another martini (the first was one with baileys and frangelico and kahula and vanilla vodka and espresso and half and half. the second was just a normal espresso martini - so i could compare the two) we watched amorres perros while we ate (a movie i hadn't seen until then) and he fell asleep on my lap on the couch watching the movie. we went to bed . . .and went to sleep a little while after that ;)

my weekend was great! and living together? ummm - AWESOME! i was relaxed and happy the whole time. i actually felt my stress level increase as 2:00pm grew closer on Sunday. all week, we've cooked together. i'll help chop and get things ready for the recipe - then he deals with the cooking part while i do dishes. we were happy together the whole time :)

This thursday is when i leave for Florida - so i won't have that much time to miss spending every waking moment with him.

so, now i need to prepare for my fist lab meetings this thursday. i'm nervous to say the least.

good morning :)

megan i still want to hear about your night with edgar and the summary of how the 10 days glimpse of living together was...

rupa pot luck sounds fine with me - i wont be around this coming weekend though (and neither will you...) so maybe the following weekend we should just watch both of them! and then we need to make sure tivo holds on to like 4 in a row cause ill miss 3 during my japan trip...

i saw lots of movies this weekend - well two but it seemed like a lot - little black book - i really liked until the end, the end just got to be too much for me but then they redeemed themselves a bit at the very end. and garden state - i loved that! very different...

and it was the first weekend that i was in NY and didnt go out at all - no bars no clubs - it was great.

morning!

hi girlies! good morning! i came in early today to catch up on last week's work (i got nothing done then!!).

megan i miss you.. i hope your weekend was happy and thursday night was really fun. nush and jules.. it was so nice to see you last night. can we make sunday night DH at my place a tradition? but next time, we should do potluck and all make something. i think it had been a while since i had had italian food.. especially generic italian food and i've been feeling sick since eating last night.

ok.. off to do work for a few hrs and then i'll be back to blogging!!