I'm down to do secret santas. we'll pick names the weekend in december
when megan's here?
rupa - do you know if rooz is having a bday party this year? are you
still "not planning" to go to boston that weekend? meg, I guess it's
kind of stupid to ask you if you're going to boston since you were just
there this past weekend. . .
either way, I think I'll go to boston that weekend. I wanna see gabe
and just hang out there again.. .i miss boston sometimes
starbucks has their holiday cups out already! I love x-mas :)
oh yea, and peter decided he's taking the job with wachovia, so he's
going to move into the city! I think he starts on monday. I don't know
what he's doing exactly, but he's excited. no more free cruises, though
:( their office is kinda close to our apt - on 15th street, somewhere
close to the C/E.
and evelyn has her phone interview with GE today. I'm keeping my
fingers crossed. . .
thats exciting! i didnt know he was thinking about that...
when should evy find out?
dev has an interview tomorrow with the group he has been working with in redmond...even though its soooo hard to be excited for him it did feel good when he told me they emailed him and asked if he wanted to work for them...we shall see what happens...
we met 17 months ago today...can you believe thats how long its been since we were in school???
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starbucks has their holiday cups out already! I love x-mas :)
oh yea, and peter decided he's taking the job with wachovia, so he's going to move into the city! I think he starts on monday. I don't know what he's doing exactly, but he's excited. no more free cruises, though :( their office is kinda close to our apt - on 15th street, somewhere close to the C/E.
and evelyn has her phone interview with GE today. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. . .
i had eggs benedict at mercer kitchen last saturday. they were def yummy. nush, make sure you request it without meat, though, cause it comes with ham.
so i just took this test to figure out what my deadly sin is, and i got greed. i'm not sure i agree, but oh well. anyways, you guys should do it and see what you get. katy said rupa took it, and her deadly sin is envy.
crappy eggs benedict tastes really bad. i think its something you can easily screw up . . .
but good eggs benedict is really good - possibly my favorite way to order eggs :)
i didnt know the name hollandaise, but i knew it had some sauce on it :) and when he asked what it tasted like i had no idea...but i know mercer kitchen has that and toral says its really good (better than their pancakes which i cant believe...) so maybe we will try it out sometime :)
sunny side up is fried eggs - with the yolk side facing up (yellow . . hence the sunny part)
poached eggs are boiled - sort of. you like put a cracked open egg like you were going to fry it . . . only into a pot of boiling water.
eggs benedict is an english muffin, i think a piece of ham - but maybe it doesn't require meat . . . a poached egg all covered in hollandaise sauce.
is that sort of what you told him? :)
i had a good night - i went home at like 630, had awesome leftover indian food that my mom gave me, watched seinfeld and then studied. it was so quiet and i got a ton done. which was necessary cause my cousin is comign tonight so i wont really get to study again until sunday....
i think sunday im going to basically move into dev's apt until the exam (minus when it is raining cause the rain hits his ac so hard that i cant sleep...). its much more quiet there and his roommates are usually not around, but neither is he and thats kinda of depressing...we shall see...
what is the difference between eggs benedict, sunny side up, poached, etc? i tried explaining to dev but really i just made things up and he bought it :)
talking to yourself never seemed to bother you before, megan. don't stop now!
i got to work like 20 minutes ago. free wine is probably not a good idea on a weekday. i mean, i was home and in bed by like 10:30, so i definitely got more than enough sleep. too bad i wanted to tear my head off and rip out my stomach this morning. yea, box wine gives really bad hangovers. but i have my starbucks now and i'm ready to talk to you, megan :)
you can definitely bring edgar that weekend. there's more than enough room for both of you at our apt. meg, i want to have your chili and go to the movies with you! what movie are you going to? i really want to see motorcycle diaries. maybe i'll go to a matinee this weekend.
ok, i don't know what else to do on the internet.
it's probably good i'm away from my desk and don't have a credit card or anything with me . . . i'd start shopping out of boredom.
SAVE ME!!!
no response.
that's fine with me. i'm sitting down here at the speedy computer and my samples are going reeeaaalllly slow . . . so, i'm playing on the internet while the computer works.
i looked at plane tickets last night. jessie made the good point that i should check with the bf and see if he wants to come too . . . thought i'd check with you guys :)
i think if i don't go to the movie tonight i am going to make chili . . . in fact, even if i do go, i might make it anyway . . .
see. this sort of feels like i'm talking to myself. i'm going to stop now . .
i'm craving eggs alaska . . .
what is that, you ask?
a diner down the street from my house serves eggs benedict, only with fake crab meet instead. i haven't gone there in a really long time and i'm craving it!
just thought i'd share :)
i'm at work. but hopefully i won't be for long!!!
i was only here until a little after 6 last night though . . . so that was good. and tonight i might go to a chinese movie . . . we'll see :)
how's everyone's thursday going? :)
do you four want to do that?
jules, peter can take you and jackie to get a tree after you give him the present - i think you could prob ask him to shine your shoes and kiss your feet too !! ill bring my ornaments next time i go home...i have a lot of cool ones - last year i had everyone who came to visit me around that time buy me an ornament :)
yea, i love this time of the year too :) i don't think you have to go through the hassle of bringing your stuff from home - i'd like to get a real tree. they smell so much better! we've always had a real tree at home, so i think that'll be nice.
i'm so excited that you're almost all done with studying. you deserve a break!
i love this time of year :)
i have a fake tree and tons of ornaments if you and jackie want to use that...its in ct so ill have to figure out a way/time to get it so let me know...but if you guys want a real one thats fine too...
yay! i'm glad you're love for is stronger than your feelings towards ekta :)
i'm glad we're all hanging out friday night. i have no real preference as to what we're doing, as long as it's not expensive. time to start saving $$$ for xmas presents! i can't believe xmas decorations are already in stores. i can't wait to get an xmas tree :)
after your dinner friday works for me cause sat we are going to philly for the day/night. i like julie more than i dislike ekta :) so if seeing ekta friday also means i get to see julie im all for that...i dont know what i want to do with my cousin, but cool bar with a little bit of dancing once people get a little drunk sounds good to me :)
kerry is speaking at 2 and bush at 3....i was supposed to go to a conference but i think ill just stay here and watch...
pf changs is really good.. hearing about it is making me hungry.
december 10-12 is good for me :) i'll bring the cheesy shirts tomorrow :) i also just ordered a fenway park tshirt on mlb.com. yay! my sister forwarded me this discount code- CART10 gets you $10 off anything!
i can't do free wine tonight- i'm having dinner with my cousin (the one from boston) who is in town with moush and some others...
this weekend i'm around.. friday i'm supposed to have dinner with vivek and then saturday i'm going to a diwali party (indian new year). i can hang out after either of those :) i also want to see ekta one of those nights. could we all just do something together friday, or nush do you not want to see her?
ok, that was it.
that might have been my only break (lunch at 11:30) . . . back to work for me :)
its weird to eat those though...so i moved them aside and just ate the chicken :)
rupa - respond about whether you are free that weekend!!!
that was my favorite for a while . . .
not that anusha cares, but the orange peel beef is good too :)
they will randomly have peeled oranges sitting around in a bowl for everyone to eat after they have peeled them for those dishes.
megan i ate there in seattle :) it was sooo good. i love that place - they need to open one in ct. we had spicy chicken and orange chicken - the orange chicken is actually really good! we had leftovers but no fridge in our room so we had to just throw it out :( the hotel had everything else (heating outdoor pool, great service, etc) but no fridge? i thought that was weird....
i did not do anything fun and exciting . . .
i did watch la confidential, the lizzie maguire movie, and gilmore girls, i got an oil change (about 500 miles overdue) and picked up a little. but only a little. i went out for coffee and helped edgar study for chinese . . . (which, apparently, is going to happen a couple of more times this semester so i may be able to speak chinese next time you see me)
speaking of next time you see me . .
december 10 to 12? sounds like a plan to me! and i'll purchase tickets tonight - just hoping rupa will respond and say those dates are good for her :)
well the real world prob cant figure it out cause we havent had a "good guy" running for president in a long time....
when both your options suck and most people take the attitude of voting for the lesser of the two evils, then the one thing that matters to you (war, healthcare, stem cell research, etc) makes your decision for you...
hopefully in 08 there will be a candidate that actually deserves to win...
rupa - are you around this weekend? im going out with my cousin on thurs and friday night if you want to come??
the real world probably can't figure it out since there really isn't a "good guy".
meg, how was your day off? did you do anything fun?
rups - jackie and i are going to free wine tonight with paul and his roommate. wanna join us? and when do we get our cheesy shirts?? :)
it was on tv last night - probably in honor of election day.
in that movie - the good guy wins for doing the right thing.
if hollywood can figure it out, why can't the real world?!
you're right.. it must be more painful. it sucks that it's only 100000 apart there.. and in iowa and new mexico it's only 10000 apart! :(
argh.. sounds like it's about over!
i kept the tv on all night thinking id wake up and be able to see what was going on...nope didnt wake up till 630 :)
kerry hasnt conceeded yet...apparently he is sending lawyers etc to ohio to recount the votes...that must be more painful, to try to force the win...i guess bush did that 4 years ago and it worked :)
i passed out at like 12:30 last night with the tv still on, and i woke up in the middle of the night and saw that bush is winning / won. blah. so annoyed.
oh well, at least i'm going to free wine tonight. i'm sure a few boxes of boxed wine can make me forget all about this crap.
and it's already wednesday! just a couple of more days, then the weekend :)
that sounds awful.. glad you ran into moush though :) the place in PA where i used to always vote (and where my mom votes) is actually a church and all the kids from the church make stuff for election day so on your way out you can get cookies and cake and stuff. it's really cute.
it's so cool how many people are actually voting this year! i hope that means that it makes a difference.
here is an update on our fav ks...
he is in brazil for 2 weeks with cameron (who is going there on wednesday i think) and then another ks - i believe mark but i didnt care too much to waste memory cells on his travel plans....
he went to the party alone. actually a lot of people did. i guess i just thought most people would bring someone - i had way more fun with ameya than i would have alone though.
and for voting - i was at the right place (sullivan and houston) they just have 4 distrcits voting in the same church and i was in the wrong district line...i actually did find out which one i was in cause i called yesterday to make sure i had registered since i never got a confirmation, except i wrote down my voter ID number not my district number...i guess you learn from mistakes like this....
awww. . . that sounds miserable! where was the voting booth, anyways?? there wasn't a place online or something to find out where you had to vote? i've never voted at a real booth. . .this was actually the first time i even voted! i think for the last elections, i had just become a citizen, so i hadn't registered yet or anything.
who's alex in brazil with?? and who did he go to the wedding reception with?
i was at the voting place at 750! and got to work at 10!!! some silly girl standing in my line told me that since she lives a block away from me im prob in the 15th district so i waited in that line with her for an hour - nope we are in the 16th. then i had to wait in a line to find out what district i was in. then i had to wait in the 16th dist line (moush came then though so it was fun, we caught up:) to get a voting card, then stand in another line to actually vote. it was ridiculous. and i hate kerry and bush so who cares?? i did it anyway...it was my first time in a real election booth (we had these for our high school elections one year, and last time i didnt vote)
anyway now im here and doing my work and alex's while he is windsurfing in brazil :( i have to write reports for 5 funds this month!! its ok, im going to make him do everything for december when im off for a week so i guess i shouldnt complain....
good morning, ladies! are you all voting today?
i'm tired. . .still. and the coffee machine on my floor is broken, which means i have to get off my lazy ass and walk down to the 39th floor if i want some caffeine. and it's not even good coffee!
oh well. nothing new going on over here. anybody have any exciting news?
megan i know you said you were waiting on us to tell you when to come in dec, the best weekend for me is the one after my exam - Dec 10-12. Jules said that would work for her too - Rupa, are you here that weekend?? if not the next weekend may work but im not sure, it depends on my vacation times....
rupa has the shirts . . .
i'm going home :) and i'm not coming back until wednesday!
byebye girls :)
megan and rupa - you guys are awesome! who has my shirt? when do i get it?
i'm not in a good mood today. i mean, i'm not in a bad mood - i'm just TIRED. i had a great weekend, but i feel like i got no sleep whatsoever. blah.
nush - thanks for the invite, but i definitely want to stay put this weekend. too much travelling and guests for the past couple of weekends - i'm beat! and ekta will be here, but she's not a very high-maintenance guest since i'm sure she'll be spending most of her weekend with other people, too, so i'm not obligated to entertain her 24/7.
meg - i don't think i ever thanked you for the halloween card, did i? i loved it - you're the best :)
ok ladies, back to work. blah.
sorry to accuse . . . when i last refreshed the page, it was still only one blog per person.
we did get cheesy shirts for nush and jules :) i got the same one . .. they might be a little big because i got the same size (thinking it might be too small but wanting that style and it was the only size left) but its actually perfect for me . . . that was a serious run on sentence.
i'm in a really good mood today. i thought i was being really slow and lazy about processing my sample today . . . but since i only had one, it didn't take as long. and now i'm done with it and can run it on the machine and be out of here - probably by 4:00. and i already told eun that i was going to stay home tomorrow and she was very ok with that.
now i have to pee really bad. i had to pee earlier but i told my bladder to wait until i was finished with my sample. and then i finished and forgot i had to pee. and now that i'm sitting here my bladder is reminding me :)
this is why i only check this thing once an hour or so...its depressing to check it more often...
that sounds like fun! did jules and i get chessy tshirts?? dev bought me a cardinals sweatshirt when they wont he nlcs and i wore it cause it was freezing there and i think people kept looking at me with pity in their eyes, it was amusing :)
jules and rupa - are you interested in a trip to philly this sat? we are going from sat morn till sunday morn just to hang out, drink clubbing etc...its prashant me and dev...liam may come in which case hed drive us otherwise we are taking NJtransit...
poor yon . . .
i had lots of fun :)
rupa - edgar called me around 5 to be all cheery and ask how my day was going and be all love-y dove-y again. why couldn't he have figured that out a couple hours earlier so i didn't have to blow $18 on parking my car at the airport overnight?!
so the parade was AWESOME! i'm wearing my tshirt today. i told courtney - my coworker who is in love with varitek - that i saw him in the bk drive thru . . . . she was sooo jealous :) but in a nice way, not a not speaking to me way (which is kinda how she was on friday)
i met up with koo after rupa left and we were bums most of the afternoon. then, we went out to burokowskis (spelling?) and had awesome burgers and beer. then we went back to her place and got dressed and went to jorge's and gabe's and tommy's (i love their apartment - jorge has the living room all kinds of pimped out) and rashmi stopped by to go out with tommy. we went to the rack - where i saw rupa's sister and friend! gabe, jorge and victor (random puerto rican not our year) were dressed as the publisher's clearing house prize patrol and won second place in their costume contest. they looked AWESOME . . . i kept trying to point out girls for jorge to go hit on (he had a bunch of roses to present to each "winner" so he was giving out single roses to random girls as pick up lines)
koo and i left the bar at like one and went back to cameron bass's party. i saw metz, ramos, arturo, laura nasuti (spelling?), ummm . . . cameron of course. and a bunch of '05s i pretended not to know . . . chaz met us there. we left pretty quickly 'cause it SUCKED . . . i saw ramos on the way out and he was all shocked and happy to see me and told me if i EVER want to come to boston - i can always stay at their place. um, what? its only been a year and a half - did you forget your absolute dislike and disgust for me?!
then, i left koo's ass early. but i'm an idiot - you'd think the clocks changing would be what threw me off. nope, it's because i was CONVINCED my flight left at 8 am when it really left at 9. so, realizing this as i left koo's apartment, i decided to save money and take the T (i was thinking cab so i wouldn't be late) STILL got to logan with plenty of time even if my flight was at 8 . . . but logan is real civilization, so there were places to get food (rochester has basically nothing once you pass security - as i'm sure you guys noticed) so, i hit up a little abp lovin' and tried not to fall asleep at my gate since i was paranoid that they'd board my flight without me. of course - as soon as i was on the plane i feel asleep. who needs to hear the safety stuff?! i was asleep before we took off :)
ok, now back to my blood. if i get stuff done early enough today, then i'll do the analysis and not come in tomorrow!!! but since i can barely keep my eyes open, i'm not moving so fast . . . how did we do this in college?! were we really surprised that we couldn't stay awake through entire classes?!?!
hi! i got into jfk at 8 am and to work around 945...
the weekend was really fun - seattle is absolutely beautiful. honestly if i even had one friend there other than dev and his friends i would not hesitate to move there AT ALL. the trip wasnt even bad cause jetblue flies direct, and its just so nice to have a city life but also have so much beautiful water and mountains...im not used to that at all. it was nice to meet all his friend and see where he lived that summer (although its just weird to think of him and mansi there together) but he knew that i was thinking abotu that and he was really cute and kept saying thanks for coming out there and i kept saying you dont have to thank me its just part of the deal when we are dating..and he was like no but you dont understand - as much fun as i had this weekend, the best part is that now when i think of my favorite place i can think of it with my favorite person. it was nice to hear things like that :)
he comes in on sat morn...and as soon as he gets here he, prashant, and i are going straight to philly....
seeing josh was really fun too :) OOH and apparently dev's best friend there, this indian guy eric, works with yon!! when they found out i went to mit, they were like wow you are actually cool we work with some annoying mit kids..and when i found out the "annoying mit kids" were our age i asked what their names were...and they said one that i didnt know, then they said yon!!! i was laughing. i told them how i never understood why but my best friend actually liked hanging out with him. they told me then that all the jokes they had been making all night that i may not have gotten were mostly about him! most of the things were pretty much exactly what yon was like in college :)
i don't know what time you get in, but i hope seattle was fun!
i had a great weekend too. the weather was BEAUTIFUL sunday, went shopping in the outlets, saw the parade right outside my apt, went to a couple of halloween parties sat night. . .ooooh, that reminds me: i ran into chirag and carrie on sat night! it was so random, especially because i'd called chirag earlier in the night to find out what he was doing that night. carrie was shakira. . .she looked cute. i don't remember what chirag was supposed to be, but he was wearing a white castle t-shirt. we ran into them at a pizza place in the middle of the night - they were with one of chirag's friends from out of town. we all had pizza there, and then we went to a bar right around the area. it was fun :)
my mommy and aunt leave today (sniff, sniff). we had so much fun! i love that i see my family so regularly now. ok, tons of work - i'll write more later.
meg - how was your 1 day boston trip??? i wanna hear all about it. did you guys take any pics???