fine, so i'm not dressed up

Girls

but i'm still not dressed to go out to a bar or club or anything! yea, you have told me about jack. there's nothing wrong with hanging out with a male slut once in a while ;) i'm definitely going home and changing before i go out, though. i can just meet up with you guys. i'll also have a drink (or 2 or 3) at home so i won't have to buy myself any drinks tonight.

meg - never heard of a pomapoo. you should google it tomorrow and put a pic of it in our blog :)

oh, and did i mention i'm leaving?

'cause i am. leaving that it. yeah, leaving early ;)

i did say cute boy :)

ive told you about jack, havent i? he lives in jersey, works for IBM, basically has devs job at IBM, and is realllly cute. but also a male slut, but would prob be a realllly good male slut, so that makes it worth it right??

thats why i dressed up today - not cause he is a male slut but cause i didnt want to feel like i had to go home after work :)

arent your work clothes just jeans or something casual anyway?? i havent seen you have to look professional at work since they made you permanent :)

pomapoo

that's the breed of dog i think i want . . . or an italian greyhound. the pomapoo is a mix of pomerain and toy poodle - very affectionate, can be trained not to bark a lot, apartment friendly . . . and i saw some in the paper yesterday :)
the two drawbacks of italian greyhound - which is a really cool looking breed - is one, they can get skittish. and two they are really bad in cold weather - i saw a woman walking one in rochester and she said her son (the owner) has to put little booties on its feet to take it out in the winter, and the website i was reading recommended sweaters.
and i'd love to pick the puppy out with you guys, but i'd love to hang out with anusha when she is smiling and not freaked out more :)

nush - did you say cute guy?

i think i'd want to go home and get out of my 'work clothes' first. either way, it's no big deal. i'm fine with just figuring it out once we're back in the city.

im an idiot

haha so today since im all dressed up i wore my nice pointy shoes that i love...and i was sitting here with them off and just hanging out, doing my work, and steve (the asian kid i work with - do i have to keep explaining who these people are, or megan do you know the names by now??) asked if i told allen something, which i hadnt, so i was getting up to go tell him, and by accident i just slipped on one of these shoes that i wore this morning and one of the shoes that i just keep here for the normal days when i wear sneakers - and i couldnt figure out why i felt lopsided!!! then i looked down :) luckily i didnt go farther than my cube....

you rock!

thanks jules!!

:)

i've never even heard of finger eleven.

the earlier the better for me too tonight.. but let me know what we end up doing :)

tonight..

rupa - i thought you were going to a concert and we were goign to meet after that?

i sort of hinted to dev about manahatta...but he said since jack (the cute one in the band) is going to have all his equipment with him midtown, they will prob just hang out here...

rupa, if you are free at 9, im fine with meeting you guys first and then meeting him...i just thought since you were going to a concert, and he was goign to be right where we drop the car off seeing him first made sense....

anything works for me...

jules they are going to be at a place in midtown called lizard lounge, its part of a mexican rest and has a place for bands to play...looked ok online...not a place id want to go to on my own will, but seemed ok...

One Thing - Finger Eleven

Girls

Here you go rups:

Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line
It’s nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time

Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

Re: Meet

Girls
nush and i should be back in the city around 9ish. i was hoping we could meet up sometime around then. i didn't want to make this a very late night (although that never works).

Hawaii

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i'm so jealous you're going to hawaii! studying on the beach is definitely the way to go. the only reason i passed 14.01 freshman year is cause i spent all of spring break reading the 14.01 book on the beach.

rupa - i don't know who sings that song but i know which song you're talking about. i watch mtv and vh1 in the mornings when i'm getting ready for work, so i'll keep my ears open.

nush - i think your things are getting posted right now. before, you'd posted somethign that showed up at like 1:05, but the time stamp on it said 1:47 or somethign like that . . .

meet

what time are we thinking of meeting up? is going to be late? post-11pm?

i love puppies!

Girlsmeg, i'll go with you to pick out the puppy! i wish my roomie and my building allowed puppies ;) but i guess i kind of like anusha, so i'll keep her for now.

meg, i don't know if i'll be able to take anusha's books away from her for the weekend. i mean, if she doesn't get any study time in at least on the flight or something, then she'll probably just have to study more during the week! stupid test.

nush - just to warn you: i don't know at what time we're going out tomorrow. it might not be till pretty late. do you know where dev and his friends are going out tonight? maybe jackie and i can meet up with you guys. i want to meet his friends.

jackie and i had fun hanging out wtih dev last night, too. that's the beauty of having a real living room: it encourages us to hang out with each other instead of just watching tv in our own rooms!

i haven't tried out the sofa bed so i don't know how comfy it is. a couple of jackie's friends are spending the night tonight, so we'll get to test it out.

ugh! i want to leave in like an hour and a half and i still have work to do. blah. i was so productive today, too!

who sings this song?

it's a bit rocky/alternativey and on the radio a lot?

the chorus is:
"if i traded it ALL
if i gave it ALL
just for one thing..." The alls are really LONG...

i wont bring my books...

dont tell dev that though! he wasnt happy when i told him id prob bring my books to hawaii!!

although now he is happy - cause the cardinals will prob be in the playoffs, and their first round games will be when we were there, and he was flipping out today wondering how he was goign to watch the games when we were there...and i was like well just go to a bar wont it be on tv? and he was like yeah but youll get so mad if i watch baseball all day long...my response was, i love baseball, as long as you put wings in front of me :) and ill have to study some anyway, so if you are watching baseball it will be perfect time for me to study on the beach

if only i could always study on the beach...i think id never complain about all the studying...

rupa - im not sure that ill get to go to the concert, but i believe its from 9-11, its at lizard lounge, its his friend - jules - a cute boy who works for ibm :) reallly cute boy :) i just left it that id call him when we were on our way back, which is what i presume we are going to do with you and ameya too?

are my things getting posted at a normal time for you guys?? they show up for me right away, so i cant tell....

yay puppies

i like the mary kate and ashley idea :) did you have a dog growing up?

i made one of them cry.. she screwed up something really big- and when i mentioned it, was just a little too "whatever" about it. they are a little too easygoing with me... a little too willing to show that they aren't really concerned when they screw up something really big. so i called her into my office.. and basically tried to explain why what she did was a mistake.. and how she should tell me when something like that happens (basically she never told me.. i found out indirectly). and she started crying. don't feel bad for her.. she's not really the nice one in this case... she basically cried and then has gone back to not really listening to me.

anyway.. it's getting better. and i'm learning to be a tough guy :)

special request

julie, before you leave your apartment for rochester next week - HIDE ANUSHA'S STUDY STUFF! the plane ride is only an hour long and i don't want her distracted . . . she can go back to her boring self when she gets home ;)

simplified...

Hi there :) I made it so that only one day shows up on the blog at a time. That way the main page isn't a ton to scroll through :) you can always click on archive if you want to read old stuff... but this will make our constant blogging easier to take.

can't wait to see you guys tonight. anusha- when do you think you'll be done with the concert in midtown? what concert is it anyway?

i decided to work from home today so that i could get more alone work done.. less talking to my team. it's hard getting a lot done in the office (hanging out with jules aside). it's nice though.. i'm sitting on my bed.. listening to my speakers really loud.. and can steal snacks from the fridge every once in a while.

i was venting before b/c even being far away i've had to answer all these questions that i haven't gotten much done.. but that's what the weekend will be before. i feel myself getting sucked back into my crazy hours.

i can't wait to see you megan.. i'm glad it's coming up so close.. and that we don't have a super long drive to bear :) it's ok if we can't do the winery... i would be just as happy telling stories and drinking boxed wine :)

i have to do this phone interview now.. but will write more later. happy thursday! it's already thursday!

puppies and coworkers

i want to get a puppy. i've officially decided. i was looking at the classified ads online in the local paper and i'm going to check the shelters as soon as i get someone to go with me :)
don't worry nushie - i will not get this puppy until after you leave :) and whenever i get it, it will be small so you never have to be scared of it :)

and i think they should be named mary kate and ashley. and i'm not their boss so i can name them and publish it :)

rups - how'd you make them cry???

names...

I am their boss :) and would get in a lot of trouble for nicknaming them... especially on something that is published!

But my day has been fine... really busy.. even without being there. Gosh i hate email. More soon... I wish today were like yesterday!!

i dont know what takes so long for my things to post

i dont know why they take long to post...but i still like this better than email...

if you guys were going to try doritos or were curious, wouldnt you think the best person to ask would be me?1?!?!? i had them like 6 months ago when they first came out; i think they are gross :) to get a sense of how gross i think they are, if those are the only doritos there are (which happens a lot at duane reede) i just switch at get fritos! stick to the spicier nacho ones.....

rupa - why are you home?

jules - ill be there at 530...i hope everyone leaves here at 415 to go!! i may not go back to the apt after we drop off the car...dev is going to his friends concert here in midtown and i think it starts around when we get back...so i said id call him and if i get in touch with him ill go there, and then meet up with you guys after...i havent talked to ameya....

i should dress up more often - the guy at subway asked "do you want anything else beautiful?" and then when i was walking back from starbucks, the indian guy that i normally buy fruit from was like "you dont want anything", i just smiled sweetly and said no and kept walking, he called out "beautiful!" i turned around kind of surprised, and he goes "catch" and threw a banana at me - i was in the middle of the street! it was amusing - i smiled the whole walk back :)

i do like all the stuff in the family room - although i think its going to get some getting used to the maze it takes to now walk to our rooms! the room looks so tiny now!!! i didnt sit on the couch...you guys should just jump on it to soften it...have you opened it to see how the bed is?

dev said he had fun hanging out with you guys last night :) i told him we could all have fun together in december....

i also may bail on tomorrow night's gathering at home...esp if i see rupa and ameya tonight...ill prob just stay here till late and come home after you guys go out...

boa time zone

Girls
yay! looks like anusha's posting finally ocurred. yea, i don't know why my post came out a million times.

meg - what did the guacamole doritos taste like?? i've always been curious to know if they're any good or not, but i haven't been brave enough to try.
and what is it with you and libraries?? you're so strange. i've been so productive today! half my department should be out more often. and rupa should stay home! ;)

rups, how's your day going? matt bieber invited me to have lunch with him, cariann, and jennifer. i declined politely since i'd brought a sandwhich this morning. for the girls that don't know - matt is another recent grad that started working here a couple of months ago. he's a princeton grad - a really nice guy. meg, he reminds me of a golden retriever - just nice and happy and easy going and lovable. Cariann and Jennifer are 2 other new associates. they work for rupa in desrad, and they tend to be a pain in the ass. rupa made cariann cry the other day ;) rups - we need to come up with nicknames for them. can you think of 2 annoying sisters?

ballys..

jules, i talked to my dad and he cant do anything unless you go see him as an official patient...he needs a record on file if he is going to make any claims like that...

the funny thing is mark is going to see him next week :) he is doing stuff in his house cause he is allergic to dust and if he has a doctors note saying that, then he can get insurance to pay a lot of the bill....he is going to go see him next week sometime :)

weird

first of all, i can see julie's posting 4xs.
second of all, what is up with anusha's computer?! the reason everything is posting funny is because her posting time has not even occured yet according to my computer! it was like that with email too . . . her emails always had the most RANDOM times listed . . . is boa in its own time zone or something?!

chips

i tried dorito guacomole chips . . . they were the most interesting looking option in the .30 chip section so i thought i'd give them a try. not really that good . . .

i really think today is the day i'm going to leave early, and i'll work tomorrow normal hours. i wanted to talk to gen about stuff and she left for class until after 4. . . and maybe i'll walk down the hall and see if i can talk to dorothy . . .

for now, i need to make another trip to the library! which i love, so eun goes crazy picking out articles and i go fetch them for her :) i've already done 2 today, and it looks like she's got 10 more waiting to be found :)

ahh - what did i do?

Girls

umm - so i don't know what i did wrong, but my new post got posted twice and under anusha's and the whole text is like a hyperlink or something. . .

RE: ballys and i'm here now

Re: ballys and i'm here now

hey nush - don't worry about the doctor's note. going all the way to ct to see your dad sounds like too much hassle. i should stick to ballys anyways since it's cheaper. thanks for asking, though!

did you like the way the living room looks?? the couch is a bit too hard still; we def need to break it in. it's so nice to be able to hang out in the living room now :) dev could also watch tv there when you're studying, so maybe that'll help you concentrate more.

rupa's floor is getting a ridiculously expensive cappuccino machine! so i wont have to go to starbucks anymore - i'll just need to take the elevator down to 33, and i can get coffee and hang out with rupa! that's going to be miserable.

nush - our car reservation is at 5:30. we need to pick up jetta jasmine on 55th street between 5&6 ave (Ultra Car Park Garage, on the north side of 55). i'll have driving direction to LI, so all you need to do is have as many drinks as you can from 4:30-5:30 :)

then we're meeting rupa and ameya for drinks. i told rupa she should meet us at our apt - we can have a drink there before we head out. does ameya know he's still hanging out with us tonight?

Girls

Re: ballys and i'm here now

hey nush - don't worry about the doctor's note. going all the way to ct to see your dad sounds like too much hassle. i should stick to ballys anyways since it's cheaper. thanks for asking, though!

did you like the way the living room looks?? the couch is a bit too hard still; we def need to break it in. it's so nice to be able to hang out in the living room now :) dev could also watch tv there when you're studying, so maybe that'll help you concentrate more.

rupa's floor is getting a ridiculously expensive cappuccino machine! so i wont have to go to starbucks anymore - i'll just need to take the elevator down to 33, and i can get coffee and hang out with rupa! that's going to be miserable.

nush - our car reservation is at 5:30. we need to pick up jetta jasmine on 55th street between 5&6 ave (Ultra Car Park Garage, on the north side of 55). i'll have driving direction to LI, so all you need to do is have as many drinks as you can from 4:30-5:30 :)

then we're meeting rupa and ameya for drinks. i told rupa she should meet us at our apt - we can have a drink there before we head out. does ameya know he's still hanging out with us tonight?

Girls

Re: ballys and i'm here now

hey nush - don't worry about the doctor's note. going all the way to ct to see your dad sounds like too much hassle. i should stick to ballys anyways since it's cheaper. thanks for asking, though!

did you like the way the living room looks?? the couch is a bit too hard still; we def need to break it in. it's so nice to be able to hang out in the living room now :) dev could also watch tv there when you're studying, so maybe that'll help you concentrate more.

rupa's floor is getting a ridiculously expensive cappuccino machine! so i wont have to go to starbucks anymore - i'll just need to take the elevator down to 33, and i can get coffee and hang out with rupa! that's going to be miserable.

nush - our car reservation is at 5:30. we need to pick up jetta jasmine on 55th street between 5&6 ave (Ultra Car Park Garage, on the north side of 55). i'll have driving direction to LI, so all you need to do is have as many drinks as you can from 4:30-5:30 :)

then we're meeting rupa and ameya for drinks. i told rupa she should meet us at our apt - we can have a drink there before we head out. does ameya know he's still hanging out with us tonight?

Girls

Re: ballys and i'm here now

hey nush - don't worry about the doctor's note. going all the way to ct to see your dad sounds like too much hassle. i should stick to ballys anyways since it's cheaper. thanks for asking, though!

did you like the way the living room looks?? the couch is a bit too hard still; we def need to break it in. it's so nice to be able to hang out in the living room now :) dev could also watch tv there when you're studying, so maybe that'll help you concentrate more.

rupa's floor is getting a ridiculously expensive cappuccino machine! so i wont have to go to starbucks anymore - i'll just need to take the elevator down to 33, and i can get coffee and hang out with rupa! that's going to be miserable.

nush - our car reservation is at 5:30. we need to pick up jetta jasmine on 55th street between 5&6 ave (Ultra Car Park Garage, on the north side of 55). i'll have driving direction to LI, so all you need to do is have as many drinks as you can from 4:30-5:30 :)

then we're meeting rupa and ameya for drinks. i told rupa she should meet us at our apt - we can have a drink there before we head out. does ameya know he's still hanging out with us tonight?

im here now...

if only that meant that i just woke up and got to work...

nope, ive been up since 6, showered, and studied all morning. i couldnt get anything done last night. i really need to come up with a more motivational study plan - having dev around is just not working. he is usually good about just watching tv and not distracting me, but last night, he was watching tv, got a phone call from a friend and talked to him for like 20 min, and was building julie and jackies tv stand...all in all too much noise to do anything. so i went to bed at 1030, and woke up at 615, got ready, got a lot of studying done. and was ehre at 830. went to a really good meeting this morning with allen - my boss, and steve, this asian guy i work with who if i didnt havea boyfriend i think would def break up with his girlfriend to ask me out :) anyway, i just got back and decided to blow off the conference iw as supposed to go to so i could have lunch with dev.

AND i talked to my mom!!! so after a miserable night, today is shaping out to be great :) got work done, talked to my mom for like 15 min, am meeting dev at 1230 for lunch. jules - the car is at 530 right?? also yesterday our sales guys told us they were taking us out for drinks today, and i was kind of bummed that i was going to be missing it to go get a haircut, but today i got an email saying drinks are at 430!!! so jules, i may just be a little tipsy when we meet up at 530 :)

i dont get fraps anymore either...i just cant spend that much money on coffee...jules - remember when we were at fleet and they gave me that 10 dollar thing for waiting so long?? i finally went to starbucks and changed it to a gift certificate so i can get 4 coffees :) but ive been good and not bought coffee all week....

AAANNNNDDD our tickets to hawaii came yesterday!!! well a copy of the e ticket, and all travel info for how much we get to spend each day (like 60 bucks/person/day...) and all the fun activities and stuff they have to offer all week :) i cant believe that is in 3 weeks!!

ok now i need to get through a few more emails before lunch....

fraps

i have not had a starbucks frap in months!
i don't really hit up convenience stores for drinks that much (none are *convenient*) so i just end up at local coffee shops. starry nights (the place i took anusha) has the best fraps around, but spin's are ok - and much much closer to my apartment. just straight coffee, i got to cibon. later at night with edgar, i go to java's . . . just to outline what a coffee shop WHORE i've become :)

so, i'll be repeating the experiment again next week - so i'm trying to troubleshoot over the next 2 days and fix inaccuracies. so, i'm going to have to talk to people i don't know. the first on the list is dorothy, who has sort of done this before. she seems really nice, but i just don't know her and feel sort of guilty monopolizing her time! i just want to know - in detail - what she did and used and what problems she came across that i should watch out for. is that too much to ask? :)

that should at least take me through the rest of today. then i'll just show up and keep my seat warm tomorrow and leave early :) or maybe leave early today . . . since today i think i will be hanging out with my boyfriend.

i talk too much . . .

oooh - i almost forgot

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meg - i have a mocha frappuccino sitting in front of me, so of course it made me think of you! our company is spread out through different floors, and the kitchen in the 15th floor has frappuccinos! the only thing that sucks is that getting to the 15th floor is a pain in the ass cause you need to take the elevator to the lobby, go to the other elevator bank, then take it up to 15. and also, when you're there, everyone kind of just stares as you 'cause you walk in, make a beeline for the kitchen, then walk out. and if you're really luck, you might even run into eddie torres! (he's some sketchy guy that creeped me out at the xmas party last year, and then rupa ended up making out with him).

anyways, the whole point of this was just to say that i'm thinking of megan since i'm having a frappuccino :)

raving about ryan

oh, you'll get to meet him!
want to hear how nuts i am? i'm going to check his schedule so that he's there when we got to chang's on saturday :) the wine tour looks like its falling through. i told edgar he didn't need to drive us around because jess was planning a big thing. well, jess dropped the ball. so, we might just have to spend time with each other sober :)

looking forward. . .

Girls

yea, new years is way too far ahead to plan right now. i'm just excited about going to rochester in about a week :)

meg - i haven't heard you rave about ryan in a while. am i still going to get to meet him??

don't know if I'm having a party...

I will if megan's gonna be in NYC :) but we'll see... haven't really
thought about it.

jules I hope you make it to colombia!!! I hate the idea of that too...
but they are always better with all the asia tickets we've gotten too

rupa's having another new years party??

Girls
last year's party is going to be a tough act to follow ;)

actually, i'm not so sure i'm going to colombia anymore. i looked online for flights briefly yesterday, and they were like $1500! (departing from nyc). my mom had found fares for $550 leaving from miami, so if i tack on another $150 for a flight from nyc to mia, then that's more affordable. i need to call a travel agent today and try to figure all this stuff out. i dont like the fact that i have to use a travel agent! i'm def from the generation that just uses the internet to do everything. but for some reason, flights to colombia are much cheaper if you go through an agency, and my mom's travel agent in miami says that he can't get me good fares from nyc, so i just need to do it here. . .

blah blah blah. sorry, i know that's probably more detail than you needed to know about my travel arrangements.

meg - you should just start getting to work earlier, that way you won't have problems parking ;)
did you and jessie sign another 1 year lease? when we move out of our apt, i think we're going to have to leave the couch for the next tenants! it was such a mission getting it in the apt! our door and hallway/stairway are VERY narrow. oh well, it looks good, though :)

parking SUCKS

so, for the third day in a row i'm parked illegally. that was how my morning started . . .
i checked out my experiment yesterday and it went sort of right, sort of wrong . . . so, i'm doing it again on monday to see whether the right is really right and the wrong is really wrong. gotta love science :)
basically, i think the next 2 days will just be wasting time again. i'm starting to collect a lot of paper, so i'm going to organize my desk.
last night, my boyfriend didn't want to hang out with me. he had some reading he needed to do for class and i think he was annoyed that i didn't talk to him on tuesday until 9:00 and it might have had something to do with that . . . but mostly, he is trying to be super student this term so he's doing a lot of class work.
instead, i watched a little of passions of christ (sooo long. i don't reccommend it) and all of reign of fire (the ending sucked) and i picked up the living room a little. it is going to be such a pain in the ass when we move out . . . we've collected so much stuff. plus, i'm in the midst of cleaning out my closet (and drawers and trunk and all the other random places i have my excessive amount of clothes i never wear stashed) to get rid of all the stuff i never touch. jessie was my judge the other day and she was like um, when's the last time you wore that? to everything. things over a year got put in the to give away pile.
jules - i'm excited you are going to colombia! but this means you can't attend rupa's new year's party!!! :) :)

Good morning!

Girls
hi ladies! i got to work before 8:30 this morning. crazy, huh?? and i'm hyper. jackie made us breakfast this morn (scrambled eggs with cheese, toast with butter and jam . . . yummy). maybe i'd have more energy if i had a real breakfast every day. ehh.

anyways, i was so sad cause i tried to check the blog as soon as i got up and it wasn't working for some reason :(. but now it's up again so i'm all good. nush and i are getting haircuts today. of course, nyc doesn't have enough good hairdressers, so we're going all the way to long island for our cut. we're using zipcar for the first time, so we're taking jetta jasmine out for a spin ;)

oh yea, i got drunk dialed last night. joey called me at like 3am. i just looked at my phone and went back to sleep - i was exhausted. he didn't leave a message (that could have been entertaining). he's weird - i can't tell if he's into me or not (which makes me think he's not). i don't know - i still had fun tuesday night. even if nothing happens, he's just fun to hang out with.

meg - how was your quiet evening at home with your boyfriend??