i like some of my coworkers :)

i just spent the last hour chatting with eun and courtney about nothing . . . it was fun :) the last month and a half i've been on such a rigid schedule, it feels good to be casual again :)

dinner tonight

nush, i highly doubt it'll turn into a work thing, but it's up to you. if not dinner, you should come to vivek's for a little bit ;)

annoying coworrkers

i think you just cant escape them....

jules i think ill pass on dinner..either ill eat with dev or just go home...i dont know that i want to get roped in to a deshaw thing which is prob what it will become :)

weird james

oh, the socially inept.
so, my cubby buddy is a guy named matt. he's really nice and one of the mouse people. james is another mouse person - so i have no contact with him. except that he sort of feels he's the lsrII (the machine i use with the fast computer) guru because he was the one originally assigned to learn how to use it months ago. i don't think he's really that much better with computers and such than me - he just had a 3 month jump start on me. so, i'm becoming more and more inclined to ignore him.

the reason i say all this . . . the files created by looking at the lsrII are huge. so, its initially created on one harddrive and then you are supposed to export it to a separate one - meant just for storage. i do this religiously (because i was told to) so, james came up here and said that to matt - as if i wasn't sitting here. and then went megan - did you hear that (i'm listening to my ipod) i was like yup - but my files empty. then he told matt all about how he burned all of his info on a dvd (which i was having trouble with the other day and eun asked him about - i would have asked someone else) then after he tells matt he says megan, so you were having problems with it? he just doesn't know how to socialize! i think he's trying to be helpful, but he just seems condecending! i acknowledge i have far less experience in immunology than you - but i understand english and at least a little bit about computers!

ok, that was my rant.

feel better megan!

nush, i think dinner is going to be just me and rupa - although it's after a work happy hour so other people might tag along. . .

i just realized i won't be able to sleep in today! :( i have buddy program training from 9am-5 tomorrow. i can't imagine what they're going to have us do that's going to take a whole day! after that, peter promised he'd hang out with me so i won't be bored. he's coming to this improv show with me (one of our co-workers is in it). i can't wait to go home next week :)

i don't feel good

everyone around me is getting sick . . . and i don't feel very amazing. in fact, i went down and got chai earlier in and when i was walking back up, i felt dizzy.

and for some reason, my lab is really hot today! really - it might be really hot everyday but since i usually work in the human room across the hall - which is vented and closed off from the rest of the world - i wouldn't know. and the human room is COLD (sometimes i like it, sometimes my fingers get sort of numb.)

this weekend i get to go to a 4 year old bday party. at gymboree (spelling?) its eun's eldest's party and i missed her one year old's party and she was a little hurt . . . so i have to go to this one. i'm making edgar go with me :)

we didnt...

i just ignore her and go about my business without interacting with her - im good at that, although it def makes me less productive when there is an issue with a fund she follows and i just ignore it becuase thats better than having to talk to her. but allen knows that, so i just tell him instead of her :)

im glad its on dvd! ill def rent it one of these days...

that would be fun if they sent you to san fran :) i may have to go to lousianna soon to check on this company we use for our background check...i hope it gets pushed back so far that i can go around mardi gras time :) that would be fantastic

dvd

is lauren gone? how did we take care of that problem?

ok - so, once i have the program from dev . . . i just need an external cd burner? is that what we're saying? but. won't that turn the dvd's into cds? which means it wouldn't fit on just one . . .

so, i'm playing with this program. its really cool. a guy came and did a presentation on it - but it was before i started using the program. which sucks! because i didn't go ask him questions 1. because i didn't have any yet and 2. because i had samples that day and decided that they took priority over the q & a session we set up just for our lab. now i'm working with the program and i wish he were sitting here! first off - he was oh so dork-a-lious. very artsy fartsy meets computer geek :) second - (i don't know if i told you guys this) eun is thinking of researching whether she can use grant money to send me to stanford to train with the people who work with this program and others like it. now i have a ridiculous fantasy that that will happen and they'll love me and want to hire me and i'll get to just fly around and be their flowjo rep, teaching people how to use it and playing with it everyday :)

dinner

where and what time are you girls having dinner? is it just you two or a bunch of work people? if its just you guys i may join in...

he said the quality was good - just like a dvd. you know how a few years ago we used to have those big caselogic black albums full of cds? thats what he has for dvds...must be awesome!!

i love that the guys at starbucks know me :) thats what is getting me through being here so early in the morning....

plus when i got here i just went straight to allens office and chatted for like an hour :) he has been in tokyo for a week so i just told him about what all had been happening since he left...he said that he thinks he is upping my bonus by 5000!!! that was pretty exciting :) i sooo want to ask him if alex and i make the same - we should but im really not sure...one of these days im just going to ask allen :) i love that im so comfortable with him i cant believe i ever thought i should leave just cause of lauren...

DVDs / movies

oooh - the DVD burner thing sounds cool! does dev know about the quality of the burned DVDs?

before sunset is definitely on my list of things to watch. alexander opens this weekend, too. i want to see that. when i'm home, i'm going to go with jackie to take her lil' cousins to see polar express :)

this looks like it's going to be a busy busy friday for me. i'm looking forward to the end of the day, though. happy hour here at work, then dinner with rupa, then vivek's party :)

in theaters or on dvd?

copying dvds! megan, dev has a program for his computer that lets you copy dvds...however there is a catch -
his cousin gave the program to him, but in order to use it you need a computer that has both a dvd drive and a cdr drive so you watch the dvd and copy it altogether. so when dev told me this i was thinking you should just get an external copier, but he doesnt think that connection is fast, secure enough for this to work, but if you are willing to try he can give you the program. he said one reason it may work is cause you have an apple and that has firewire which is much faster than regular usb...

those cost around 200 i think...

anyway, food for thought :) (for megan and whoever her secret santa is :)

before sunrise

is the first one
before sunset is the second - and i really liked it, better than the first. it's still very much of the same feeling - almost really time and completely just conversational.
i give it two thumbs up - especially if you liked the first.

before sunset

thats the first one right? i never saw the second one..i really want to - is it out yet?

im excited about secret santas! i already have so many ideas!!

where'd everyone go?

i ate lunch today!
that may not sound exciting to you . . . but its HUGE for me :) i normally skip it as a nonessential inconveince . . . so much so that courtney has begun referring to skipping lunch as "the megan diet"
and now i'm drinking ass coffee. no not a misguided name brand . . . just coffee from the convenience store akin to macgregors instead of the espresso oasis - it is not good. i would LOVE a mountain dew. damn those money hungry beaucrats who have banned pepsi's version of ambrosia!

i watched before sunset last night. i liked it! i want to take a 2 week trip through france and italy. like . . . next september ish. enough time to save up/plan. it will have cooled down - but not be cold. and it should be after tourist/college student season.

anyone want to come? :)

woohoo!

i got mine too!!!!
i love christmas :)

yay!

i just checked my email and got my secret santa person emailed to me. i love xmas! oooh - it's going to be so hard to stay away from shopping online all day. . .

secret santas

how can i start shopping for you guys if i don't know who i'm going to shop for!

im at home :)

well at devs place.

i was too tired to go to work so i decided to sleep in, now we are going to go eat and then im going to go to the library to study...thought that was more productive than going to work :)

we havent picked secret santa. maybe ill do with when dev gets out of the shower and just have him pick for everyone. yes ill do that. ill have him email each of you who you got!

where are you my pets?

and did we pick secret santas yet?

i really was here today

but blogger didn't like me the one time i was sitting at my desk. and now i'm leaving. its so dark out :(

i blogged but it didnt show up....

coffee

i feel like a total new yorker - now, i always get the new york post from the guy right outside my subway stop on spring street (it's only 25 cents!), and then i get coffee from the street vendor on 45th and broadway (just $1 for yummy coffee!). it's great - i finally found a way to spend all my loose change :)

i'm going to dinner with my department tonight. we're going to a place here in midtown called "the red eye grill". it's supposed to have yummy food from the east and west coasts (hence, the 'red eye'). i'm excited about yummy lobster and good drinks.

after that, i just want to go home and pass out. i need tonight off from partying since i'll most definately be going out tomorrow (jackie and i are getting haircuts, so we need to go out and show them off).

blah. work is so boring. and i just paid all my credit cards for the month. that's always so depressing.

yumm!

our coffee tastes like crap :( and i complained to the guy who makes it one day asking why it wasnt even hot and he was like yes it is and i said no its not (seriously we sounded like 5 year olds) and then he was like wow youre right, ill get it fixed. i was fired up! that was 2 months ago :(

oh well..i think im going to order a free gavalia coffee machine for work and keep it at my desk, i just hate cleaning those things....

a blog!

hello! here's a blog to make it look less boring :)
i am having a latte right now from our free machine down the hall and i discovered that there is a whole cabinet with all the stuff from starbucks to make starbucks like cofee items! there used to just be mocha sauce but now we have vanilla syrup for vanilla lattes.. mocha powder for hot cocoa... and caramel sauce for caramel macchiattos.

yay!

this is boring to look at...

i guess thats what happens when you get to work at 830....

i was supposed to have a meeting but i dont know where anyone is!

lunch

i just had sushi with patty :) it was good but i hate when i think im ordering one thing and its something else...last time i got a tuna roll but they had this spicy orange creamy sauce dripped over it and it was sooo good, so i ordered it again yet no orange sauce :( oh well, it was still good...

then i went to staples to get my index cards :)

rups - i dont think we will buy anything this week - i think our goal is to get tickets around thanksgiving...i feel like all these places are sort of the same - dj playing hip hop, rb, 80s, etc, random buffet stuff, etc...one of torals friends renting a loft in midtown with 3 bars and unlimited alcohol and is having a party so she is thinking abotu that, but i dont think dev and his friends would want to do that..ill talk to him more on thurs about all that though...

this weekend

i'll be at vivek's party for sure on friday. thursday i won't be able to do dinner - i'm going to LI with jackie to get a haircut, so i prob won't be back until 9 or so, and i wouldn't want to eat that late. how about dinner either friday (after happy hour, before vivek's), or saturday? saturday all i have planned is going to scott's show.

nush, jackie is leaving on friday, and she'll be back the following monday. this weekend is orientation for the buddy program, and then there's vivek's party and scott's show (scott's a guy that works with us, and he's doing a 2 man improv show which everyone says is really good), so looks like i have enough things to keep me occupied this weekend, so i won't have to sit around distracting you ;)

last night we went to APT for a little. erica's friend was dj-ing there (erica is one of my officemates), so jackie and i met up with her, her sis and her boyfriend for a couple of drinks. again, it was an attempt to get jackie out of the apt. it was nice, though. a very enjoyable and low-key night. i forget how much i enjoy going out on weeknights since things are a lot less crowded than on weekends :)

hello!

hi girls :)

nush- i got the email about that party too for new years and it sounds good to me.. actually there are a few coming in every morning so maybe we should wait a week or so to buy.. i got another joonbug one today about something at the palladium?

jules- i'm around for some of this weekend if you want to do something.. i think i'm going to vivek's friday. also, do you want to do dinner soon? like thursday?

i'm falling out of the blogging pattern b/c i never get to just be at my desk anymore.. i'll try and check in every once in a while but i still like being able to read up on all your lives :)

where did miss pimp go last night??

good call on trying to get her over bryan! he is crazy. maybe if she meets enough guys shell find one to replace bryan!! as if she needs more guys to profess their love for her though....

when does she leave for miami? friday? what are you going to do all weekend with the fun roommate gone and the boring roommate studying??

countdown to nush having fun

i can't wait! :)

we have once upon a time in america and you got served. i just added elf to our queue. it comes out today and gabe said it was really good. there's a short wait for it, but we'll see.

jackie and i will probably be going out a lot in the next couple of weeks - i'm trying to get her to forget about bryan, so i need to take her out of the apt and have her meet people. it's a tough job, but someoene has to do it. i think we're going to lotus tonight - it's one of the parties that jordan throws. i don't know how i'm going to do it without a nap. . .oh well, sleep's overrated anyways. who needs sleep?

what netflix movies do you have?

3 more weeks and i can start enjoying my fun roommates....i cant wait!

i'm here now!

I took my sweet ass time getting to work because there really isn't that much i hope to accomplish today. i was planning on getting up at 8ish and go to the gym - sooo didn't happen :) instead, i slept in until 9 and then had breakfast with jessie and hung out until 10ish and then was about 15 minutes late for work - well, when i planned on getting to work. really - no one cares when i come or go. courtney was surprised that i was even coming in today. so, i don't care :)

i'm on the super fast computer for the next hour and a half :) then . . . i may even go home :) but i might stay and do some other work. or i might take it home and watch a movie while doing it! i think i love my job :) :) :)

where is everyone :(

rupa: new years

so far this is what i found that i like:
http://www.joonbug.com/newyearseve.asp
the party at park is the one im thinking about. i love that place. its 125 from 8-4 open bar from 9-2 and sponsored by stoli...the one we did last year was capitale, but i dont want to go back, and i hadnt heard of the other places...

ill know for sure by the end of the week, just wanted you to think about it/ask moush or whomever else will be in the city if you are - werent there some elaborate trip plans you had last time we talked about this??

finally rested

i didnt get any sleep on saturday night and i was worried i wasnt going to get any sleep last night either - i ran out of index cards to make flash cards :( sad right! so i studied some of the old flashcards then decided i should just go to sleep - i laid in bed for an hour! i dont know when i finally fell asleep but i didnt wake up until 8 am this morning :)

i think my brain is over loaded though...its like constantly processing study information - i dont like it!!! when im watching seinfeld and trying to sleep, i just want to sleep!!

on a more fun note, i emailed both luis and jose oscar about PR and both are going to be there when I am! of course jose oscar offered to pick up us from the airport and let me borrow his car :) i love him. ill invite him out to dinner with my fam once definitely and then my bro, vivek (did i tell you guys nalini auntie and her fam ar coming with us?) and i will go out with him after...and another night hang out with luis...somehow it still surprises me that that island is big enough for both of them...

camping

we all realize that by "camping" i mean the nearest town is a 10 minute drive . . . but we'd still be living/sleeping/cooking/showering in a real house, right? just checking :)

rochester and lunch

camping sounds like a great idea! i'm def up for it.

nush, i don't think i'll be able to have lunch this week. the rest of the week here is going to be pretty crazy. sorry!

rochester...

im up for coming for some long weekend next year :) you and edgar should make use of it!

jules - im still craving chipotle.... :) if you or rupa are free for lunch on wednesday....

i have the keys!

and now i def know how to get there!!!!
so . . . if you guys ever feel the need to go camping without the tent smell/with running water (that counts . . . right?) feel free to tell me and come visit!!!

3 bedrooms plus floor space . . . we can summer in connecticut and winter in western ny :)

team america

thats what dev and his friends were for halloween...i want to see it just to see puppets have sex with the girl standing on her head :) i kept teasing the girl in their group cause dev was supposed to be the one she has that sex scene with...it was amusing...

sounds like a fun weekend :) did you get the keys to the lake house??

edgar and the weekend

friday, i went to visit my parents at my grandparent's weekend house (herein referred to as "the lake") it was really nice - it's an hour and a half drive from rochester - mostly on a deserted country little route. i got there and went for a short walk with my mom and the dogs (would have been longer and through the woods but it's hunting season) then, we watched a movie and all fell asleep. after waking up, we started playing trivia pursuit (we is dad, mom, and me) i sucked at it because it was all before i was alive . . . so i convinced them we should buy the 90s edition. so, we drove into town and visited the grave sites of my mom's grandma and her parents and their parents. we went out to dinner then bought the 90s edition! and we back and played it. i won :) it was soo fun! then i drove home. edgar slept over, but he didn't come over until after work (aka 11:30ish) and i had to work saturday morning so it was uneventful. plus, he is sick. so, i got to scratch his back and fall asleep. saturday i worked and got bored at night . . . then met up with chang's workers at the bar. it was nice to go out and see people. edgar slept over saturday night - even though he shouldn't have. but jessie wasn't home at 1:30 and i knew she had to work at 8am so we took a chance. she didn't go to syracuse - she was just out at the bar late. but she hasn't yelled at me - so i think she didn't notice his car. sunday, i went rock climbing (which i hadn't done in like 2 weeks so it felt good/hurt) then we went to this two story co-op place that's like a gigantic garage sale. but its permanent and really organized and clean - so its nice. really random stuff - from crafty to antique. that closed early (since it was sunday) so we ended up wasting more time at an arcade-type place next door. we played mostly air hockey and skeet ball :) we won 100 tickets and didn't want any of the prices - so i asked if it was ok with him if we gave it to a kid. we found this little girl that didn't look old enough to win any tickets herself walking around with what must have been her grandpa. i went up to him and asked if she would like our tickets and he took them. as we were leaving, she was at the counter picking out her prizes :) then, we went to see team america - world police. SOOOOO FUNNY! a little overkill and dumb at points, but overall i loved it.

then i went home and went to sleep.

when i was out, i saw the waittress that wants to cut my hair. i am going to call her tonight (probably - i've been saying that for weeks) and schedule an appointment - so i may have my first paid for haircut since i was in high school!

haricuts

so next one for the 3 of us in 3 months and when the moon is growing :)

8 days of vacation

in 1 month seems like a lot, but there is sooo many people/so many things i want to spend it on that i dont know what to do :) its driving me nuts!

3 days are def for PR, 1 day i def need to go to the outlet mall with my mom...and i just want to go hang out at home for a few days...

so ill keep you posted and let you know if i can get the day off...if not, ill def leave early to hang out :)

how was your weekend with edgar staying over?

julie's a pimp and modern art

nush - modern art sounds GREAT! i don't mind $20. if wandering around the museum stops me from mindless shopping, it'll probably be cheaper :)

this whole regular, normal size paycheck thing makes me feel like a millionaire ;)

haha

nush, i love the way you describe the guys!

the fact that there are a couple of joeys probably doesn't make your life easier.

- paul's roommate is named joey. he was over a couple of sundays ago.

- joe, the one i kissed friday, was the one with the shirt. he works with jackie, he's like 26. he's a broker.

- jordan, aka "the one who looke drugged out", is the one we met through rey and richard. he lives nearby, on spring and crosby, so he likes to come over and pre-party wiht us.

and damn, you missed out on the kentucky boys. seriously, it's not very often i say a guy is hot. david from kentucky was def. hot :)

as for dinner - rups, i'm up for dinner any night this week except for thursday. jackie and i are going to LI to get haircuts, and then after that we'll probably party. . .

new years

rups i think ill be here. i think dev is going to be here too and our idea was to find a club/party where his friends and my friends would want to go - if you are interested ill keep you in the loop...last year we paid 100 for dinner, all you can drink, from 8-4. i think thats a pretty good deal and if we have a lot of people going itll be fun...we may do that again, but i think either dev and toral will decide where or itll have to wait till after my test to figure it out...

so many blogs :)

this is exciting :) although i have sooo much work to do...

megan the musuem of modern art just opened - we can go to that! it opens officially on sat, but i walked by it today and they were cutting ribbons and lines of people were waiting to get in...i cant believe it costs 20 bucks to go there though...so if you dont like art that much, i get into the met for free and thats just as fun :)

our secretary is having a huge party on sat night that you are here - renting out a part of a bar or something, ill get details and see if we can all go..otherwise ill have to go for a bit and meet up with you guys later...

im so out of the loop - there are different guys over every night of the week and i cant keep them all straight! was joe the one with the weird shirt? the one who looked drugged out was rey's friend right?

i wish i saw the kentucky boys!

joe?

paul's friend?

friday off

nush - that would be awesome! i want to do one token tourist thing - preferably a museum. i realized that i haven't been to any museums in nyc ever and that seems really wrong.

talking about vacations with eun - she basically gave me permission to come and go as i pleased as long as she was around (in case random samples come in) except that she's probably going to be out of town for a week in march - to venezuela! (spelling?) she's not excited. if only i could go FOR her ;)

eun sucks the day away from me

i love my boss. she frustrates me sometimes. but she's really easy to talk to - and it's a problem. we talk for like an hour about nothing. today we covered movies and vacations. oh well . . . fun waste of time :) i thought i was going to be in a lab meeting for that time anyway!

helllooo kentucky!

g'morning ladies. i had a very fun weekend. saturday night jackie and i met some VERY cute boys from kentucky who were here for a bachelor party for the weekend. my guy was so hot! and they dressed really well and they were very nice and and sweet and respectful. . . such a good night :)

i just got my flight to go home for xmas. i'll be out the 22nd - jan 3rd. a little bit longer than i wanted, but those were the only dates i could find a reasonably priced ticket for. so, sorry ladies, no new years in the city for me.

meg, i'm excited we'll get to see you in a couple of weeks! nush - we can do secret santas tonight. rupa and megan, jackie will pick out your names and let you guys know. sound good?

oh yea, and i kissed another boy of friday night, too. his name is joe, he works with jackie. nush, you met him friday night. he's a cutie - and jackie says he's really nice and sweet. he's got boyfriend potential, so we'll see if anything happens . . .

no dinner for me...

unless you guys want to cook at our place and ill just eat with you :) otherwise i promise ill even come up to the UWS in december :)

dec

i cant wait for december to get here :) so many fun things...

megan i may take that friday off when you are here, ill check with dev to see what days work for us to just hang out in NY and then check with allen to see if its ok if i take that friday off...

we havent done secret santas yet...maybe tonight jules? i thought of it yesterday but forgot to tell julie...

i am back!

after many hiatuses.. or hiati? i am here again. i had a really awesome weekend.. i went home to celebrate diwali (the hindu new year) and my dad's birthday. i hung out with vladimir (friend from MIT) who was playing at carnegie hall on saturday (i didn't actually see his show) but we did fun new yorky stuff on sunday. i went to this brunch place downtown called "home".. which was just as good as i remember but the service was a lot meaner this time. we went to mamoun's and to gray's papaya. do you see the theme here? he basically wanted to eat everything NY he could in a few hours. i was too full after brunch to eat any more but he downed one falafel.. one magnolia cupcake.. two gray's hot dogs.. a slice of ray's pizza and a black and white cookie. which is apparently a new york thing. did you know that? i just though black and white cookies were generic bakery things.. not specific to this city.

anyway.. it was a good weekend. megan- i'm really excited to see you in a month! glad you bought your tickets. do you girls have new years plans yet? nush/jules- wanna have dinner one night this week? we could even cook somewhere if you want to do the low-carb-low-cost thing :)

i know, i'm talking to myself . . .

have we decided secret santas yet?

oh!

and i purchased my tickets :)
i arrive at JFK at 8:30pm on Thursday december 16th and take off from JFK at 10:35pm on Sunday december 19th.
schedule yourselves accordingly :)

how silly am i

so, normally monday's mean 8:30 lab meetings. but this one was cancelled - probably for a very long time. did i look around and notice this? no. so am i here at 8:30? yes. i'm thinking i need to make a stop at the coffee place and get me something breakfast like!

it's ok, there is some paperwork-ish stuff i can take care of. AND my subjects have moved out of the hospital - so i don't get my first sample until 10am!

ah well. it was my fault for not checking the list.