no posts today??

must have been busy for everyone...i never thought id say this but im glad alex is coming back on monday...im tired of doing two people job!!

i swear!

cross my heart and hope to die, IM and the internet were the only things working! i needed to work in outlook and excel, and it was being sooo slow. we complained to our systems dept and i don't know what they did, but they fixed it :)

and meg, don't worry about the south beach diet interfering with your weekend. at least in my version of the diet, we can drink as much jack and diet coke as we want!

did you get your tickets?

i think im off that friday...are you still coming thurs - sun?

im gonna go home soon...if only going home meant i would be having fun...

don't forget!

december 17th to december 19th you are entertaining me! you can all be on your south beach diets as long as it doesn't interfere with my weekend :)

color me skeptical

the ONLY thing working is im and internet?? i find that a little fishy . . . if you added solitaire to the list of mysteriously working programs, i'd have to not believe you at all ;)

so, i'm on the fast computer. with the $80,000 machine. it sucks up some sample and looks at it - it does this at three speeds lo, med, hi. so, i was starting to look at my samples today and it wasn't working. it would for work a couple of seconds and then step. it turns out "lo" is just randomly not working - which sounds like a machine problem. and it was doing this all day yesterday too. but did anyone point this out? no. i had to discover it on my own today and almost have a heart attack because my samples were getting sucked away but the machine wasn't reading them properly. scientists are socially dysfunctional annoyances.

~dec 22 or 23rd - jan 2nd

i'm not exactly sure yet, but i'll probably be home for xmas sometime around those dates. i think jackie's planning on doing the same.

rupa and i went to candyland in toys r us to get some bulk candy today. i got sugar free jelly bellies :)

now, time for more work. . . .

dec 22-25

when are you and jackie going home for xmas/new years? my fam is going to stay over that tues night cause the flight on wed is at 6 am from jfk and on sat we get in at midnight...

i didnt go to the conference, but i did get a lot of work done. and now i have time to catch up. there was a street fair today on my street so i went out, got a some chicken gyro thing and bougth bedsheet for 10 bucks! they were 250 threadcount so im pretty excited :)

PR

when in december are you going? that's awesome! you'll def deserve it after this stupid test, and after putting up with the cold weather here.

dude, my computer is SO SLOW today! it's impossible to get any work done. the only stuff that's working is the internet and IM, so at least i can keep myself entertained. but i can't get any of my work done!

PR and my prince!!

Im going to PR in Dec for 4 days with my family :) I just booked the flight and hotel...im so excited! And i emailed luis to see if he knew about the hilton i was about to make the reservation in and he said it was awesome and that he would be there..so ill prob meet up with him when im there :)

south beach diet for me starts dec 5 :)

i'm moving slower than death on crutches

and i just got an additional sample to take care of.
blah.

exhausted

i woke up at 7 and showered and studied at home for an hour then came here and thought it would be a slow day and id be able to go to this conference i want to attend all day (more cause it will be slow and then i can go home...) but i think now since i missed the beginning i may just stay here and catch up and go home around 4...

i want to go to brunch!

i'm eating my lunch right now. even though it's 11:00. i forgot to grab a granola bar so i skipped breakfast and i'm really hungry . . . so one ham sandwich it is!

my parents are in rochester right now. my dad's doctor is in rochester and today is his yearly colonoscopy. they are going to spend the weekend at my grandparents weekend house (which is only an hour/hour and a half from here) tomorrow, i'm going to drive there and spend the day with them. and con them into making a copy of the key so that i can go whenever i want :)

i cleaned my room yesterday . . . i love falling asleep in clean sheets :) plus, yesterday was wicked nice (relatively speaking) so i had all the windows open for most of the afternoon and the one by my bed open all night. i love sleeping like that :) and i found out that jess might be partying in syracuse friday and saturday night this weekend . . . which means edgar can sleep over :)

there is a dead fly sitting on the counter next to my desk. it's sort of mesmorizing.

brunch

brunch sunday sounds good if you guys are free. megan, at what time should we be expecting you ;) i miss the "sex and the city" brunches we used to have in the aphi kitchen. ahhh...good ol' times.

anyways, it's 10:20 and i've already had my workout for the day :) and although i feel wide awake and energized, i really don't want to be at work right now. i just want to go home and crawl in my bed. blah.

ok ladies, time to work. enjoy your thursdays :)

no real plans

but breaks tend to happen regardless...

if you guys are up for brunch sunday id be willing to take a break for that...if i get a lot done i may try to squeeze in mean girls. i think my parents may stop by sat on their way to the airport (they are going to brazil for a conference...) i really want them to take the papazon chair out of my room so i hope they do come...

lunch

yea nush, you're right on the no-carb thing. mondays and tuesdays tend to be really busy for me, so i doubt i could do lunch on those days. will you be free later on in the week? rups, how about you?

nush - you're almost done studying for the test! do you have any plans for the weekend besides studying?

carbs

jules - no rest these days could survive without an atkins friendly menu!! even mcdonalds! chipotle has a salad type option with everything minus the bread and rice!!! so when you do have some time...

im free monday for lunch if you and rupa want to meet - it doesnt have to be chipotle..just want to spend time with you guys :)

i went to helga - i still like my job much better after seeing what she has to do :) and i got my nails done :) studying makes me want to bite my nails and i hate that so at least till the test i want to get manicures once every 2 weeks...

wednesday morning

recruiting sucks. . .everything is so busy all of a sudden. i wish we could go back to summer when things were a lot less hectic. why does everyone want a job here???

anyways, i hung out with rupa for a bit this morning :) i went to get my eyebrows threaded for the first time, so now they're bright red! (my skin is pretty sensitive). it didn't hurt much, though. i think it might be just a little less painful than waxing. anyways, rupa rocks cause she came with me, then treated me to starbucks. i felt like a little kid who gets a popsicle after going to the doctor's :)

nush, i'm going to have to pass on lunch. i brought a sandwich, and i'm way too busy to step away from my desk for too long. also, chipotle isn't south beach diet approved ;) unless they use whole wheat tortillas.. . .

ok, back to work. blah blah blah

i'm back!!

hi everyone! sorry the last few days have been really blah.. so i haven't even looked at the blog since friday!!! :( but today i caught up.

i had a fun weekend hanging out with nush and jules and doing a bunch of other random stuff. can we all see each other a lil more? jules and i have a date today (at 10am) but hopefully it can be a more regular thing.
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it's now 10 something.. hung out with jules.. and didn't send till now. happy wednesday

good morning

the office is half empty :) which means i have time to catch up and time to do my own things (aka brazilian and manicure during lunch...)

jules, if you and peter want to meet for lunch today ive been craving chipotle...id skip one of those two things to have lunch with you guys :) let me know...

ekta

you left the most annoying one off the list! :)

not as late as i thought..i should be out of here in 10 min, just waiting for allen to get off the phone so i can talk to him cause he is leaving for a 2 week trip tomorrow to japan...

i had another quarterly review with him :) it went really well :)

poor nush

yea, work has been really busy here, too. i didn't have time to eat until like 3! blah.

dude, indian girls ARE annoying! jyoti, sumita ;)

i just tought of sumita cause rupa and i made a date to go get our eyebrows threaded tomorrow morning. i've never done it before, so i'm kind of excited!

jyoti

thats prob the one that grossed you out megan....im glad rupa and i made the cut of not completely want to kill yourself when you are around them indian girls....(well maybe we didnt, but im going to go ahead thinking that we did...)

looks like its going to be another late night here :(

nadjia - nadia?

how do you spell her name? she was friends with like punita and allison i think - the girls in next house. she was friends with ramos i think, hung out with kappa sigs. ekta told me he hooked up with her. and with jyoti. who was he dating when we first met him? was it someone from home?

bripas

so, koo told me he turned into a big whore after the break up with the girl he was dating when we met him. i forget who she told me he hooked up with . . . but i was thoroughly offended

where is everyone?

me too!

i have no idea where all my winter stuff is. i dug out my winter coat this morning for the first time all year. sad.

cold...

apparently it snowed in boston yesterday! i need to find my gloves etc....

i didn't know she was smart

looks like she did pretty well at mit - i'm surprised she doesn't have a job already.

paul is a guy that works with jackie and he has a huge fat crush on her. poor guy - he's really cool and cute and funny and stuff. she's just not into him. she says she doesn't want to date anyone from work, but i'm sure it also has to do with her feelings for bryan. anyways, we hang out with paul a lot. i think joey might have a crush on me, too. we met up with him and joey the night of halloween. after a thousand jacks and coke, i decided it was ok to let joey kiss me. oh well.

oooh - i didn't tell you guys. so, of course i spent all weekend with mit people cause of ekta. sat. night we met up with bripas and a few other guys. yea, he was hitting on me pretty hard core. it was so weird! ekta and jen chen were convinced we were going to hook up cause we were just dancing together and pretty close the whole time and stuff. he kept putting his face really close to mine to like kiss me, but i kept turning away. i don't know why, but i've just never seen brian like that. it was strange. he was like "how come we never hung out at mit?". odd.

who's paul

yeah, thats lia
pretty smart - last time i saw her, very unstable . . . but sweet :)

lia tremont

is she the girl that dated ko (sp?)? the girl that carried alcohol in her purse at all times? she's applying here as a quant. . . .

last night paul and his roommate, joey came over. we pretended to watch desperate housewives, but then we got distracted with our margaritas instead. after we ran out of margarita mix, we moved on to screwdrivers and jacks and coke. seemed like a good idea at the time. . .

still hungover?

what did you do last night?

today sucks

not tons of meeting, but way too much work. and i've been feeling sleep deprived and hungover all morning, so everything is taking me like 10 times longer to finish than it should. i'll write more later, but yes, i should be here that weekend.

rupa and julie?

will you guys be around dec 17-19?
is this your day of 1000 meetings?

Dec 17-19

im free then too. provided i dont go on vacation, but if you are coming then ill def stay in NY that weekend. i think you should go to the bday party...if that weekend in Dec doesnt work, maybe we can do it first thing in Jan???

thats fun about you and edgar :) i love days like that....

because there has to be hurdles

so, i didn't get tickets yet.
eun's fine with me taking that friday off - then i get home last night and my aunt called me to say she is throwing a suprise party for my grandma's (my dad's mom) 75th bday december 11th. i'm going to talk to my parents tonight and ask if i really have to go to that. i don't really want to. i'd rather make myself responsible for going to visit her after i get back and taking her out to dinner. my mom and dad will tell me one way or another whether i should go or not. i don't suppose you guys are available the next weekend . . .?

i forgot to tell you about my sunday :)
so, i had to come to the lab yesterday (saturday as well actually) samples were drawn early just for me because the stomp tickets edgar got me for my bday were for a show at 2. i actually finished everything i needed to do in the lab yesterday by 12:30 - so it was perfect (i got to the lab at 7:45) so, edgar and i went to stomp - it was awesome, i loved it! then, edgar and i went back to my apartment and hung out for a while because jessie was working all day yesterday. then, we went to wegman's to get eun's cats cat food (i'm taking care of them until she comes back from nyc on tuesday) and dinner. then, we went to eun's house and took care of them and ate and watched tv (eun has satellite and a big screen and told me to make use of her house) it was soo nice because i hadn't seen him since thursday. then, we got coffee. by this time it was 10:30 at night and the coffee shop was closing soon so we drank our frappes driving around in my car aimlessly. it was so nice to hang out with him all day! i didn't realize how much i missed him after two days of not seeing him.

AND i get to see him for the next two days because jessie is working tonight and tomorrow night :) then, i'll have the day off on wednesday (the first day i don't have to go into the lab since last tuesday) which is also jessie's day off - so i scheduled bonding time with her then. i'm in such an awesome mood :)

plus, i went shopping on saturday :) i got two pairs of corduroys, a sweater, a zippy front shirt thing, and two normal shirts from h&m. i'm wearing the orange corduroys and the sweater today :) and flip flops . . . even though its 38 degrees out and supposed to snow :)

ok, i think the machine might be free now to check out my samples and then i can go home :)

best mood :)

this weekend was one of the most fun ive had in a long time!! fri night we (my cousin, me, julie, rupa, vivek (one of rupas friends), ekta, and her friend megan) went out to dinner and then to a few bars. rupa and i wanted to rip our hair out when we were around ekta but luckily she wanted to go meet up with other people so we got to avoid her for about an hour or so. that was the best part of the night :) julie got roped in to going with her....

sat morn my cousin dev and i went to philly...just lazed around all day then went out to dinner and drinking again. it was great :) sunday we were on a train at 7 am to get back cause my cousin left for india last night. unfortunately ekta was awake when we got home and since julie was sleeping i had to entertain her. and somehow she decided she was coming to brunch with us...she was so annoying, the whole time!!! youd think that spending less than 10 hours with someone would be manageable, but even prashant was like "you are friends with her??" i had to repeatedly tell prashant and vivek that i cant stand her...

anyway then dev and i just laid in bed all day watching tv and falling in and out of sleep. it was wonderful :) we went to olive garden with his roommates which was also fun. he left today for orlando and will be back on friday...

thats all from my end...

megan we didnt pick secret santas...we will figure that out this week and let you know...did you get tickets? are you def coming thurs - sunday?

heeeelllllloooooo out there :)

happy monday my darlings :)
did we pick secret santas yet? because i think that's a great idea and i am anxiously awaiting jackie's email telling me who mine is :)

how was the weekend with ekta? i still think julie should have revealed her little secret - just to shatter ekta's little perfect world

and my deadly sin is pride :)