i just found out from her an hour ago...and julie need i remind you of what i told you this morning? she is crazy! and thinks cause alex talks to her and jokes with her that she likes him...so i also take things she says with a grain of salt :) but ill try to find out...
if you guys go to that radio city thing, i may just crawl into bed and do that and not go out when you get home...we shall see...
your detective skill suck, nush! not that i care much about alex's life, but a little bit of gossip is always welcome, especially as a distraction from all the excitement here at work.
i think those sushi pillows are ugly. who would want one of those??? gross.
sorry i've been so out of touch the past couple of days, but i guess i don't have a whole lot to say. i think the crappy weather is just getting me down. i just wanted to wear pj pants and a sweatshirt to work today. don't worry megan, i ditched the pj pants and settled for my bright blue animal cracker sweatshirt instead. everyone keeps making fun of me cause i look like a 5 year old. my parents leave on sunday for colombia. sad.
i think we might be going to the radio city xmas spectacular tonight. i'm not sure, though, since i'm not taking any responsibility in buying the tickets, so we'll see. i just wanna go home and crawl under the covers and watch movies all night. is that too much to ask?
ok, i'm going to crawl back into my recruiting whole. byebye girls :)
word on the street (aka patty) says alex has a gf...is dating some mit girl who is a year older than us who he didnt know in college....
im not going to ask who, so i hope no one cares that much :)
well maybe not, but im def not as opposed to it as rupa...
i didnt look at the link, i just got confused....
and jose oscar exists, i think his jomur@mit.edu account still works since he just graduated...im not sure where he emailed me from but we had been in touch since im going to PR....i have no idea about juancho...
i wanted to send a random email to him and juancho and i tried to look them up in the alumni directory . . . i can't find him!!!! what am i missing?!
rupa's blog about what not to get her . . .
"pillows" is a link :)
if it for some reason doesn't work (which i don't forsee - i'm the one with the computer that is 1. the crappiest 2. a mac - unrelated issues - and it works for me) just go to theoriginalsushipillow.com :)
what the heck are sushi pillows? and where did that come up? (ive read the blog like 100 times trying to figure this out....)
by the way, i had sushi for lunch just now :)
the only thing good about today is that gen and courtney don't seem motivated to do anything either :)
nush- did you think i was only blogging that i didn't want to get pillows for my gift? :) i was only making a joke about the sushi pillows. today's been a blah day.. although i got a nice short lunch and eyebrow break with julie.
so glad it's friday!!!!
the sushi pillows!
rupa - you probably shouldn't have insulted them . . . with nushie's obsession with sushi, she probably likes them but is too afraid to admit it :)
who comes up with this stuff?!? does anyone buy them??
too funny :)
i just walked in the rain instead of waiting for the bus because i would be late for the time slot i signed up for on a computer - but wait, the people after me ignored the sign up website and are using it now anyway! whores. if i didn't like them, i would be angry :)
you cant blog about stuff like that! what if she already got you pillows...now you just made her feel bad and have to go buy something else! (maybe coal is a good idea for rupa... :))
toral cant come in anymore tonight...rupa are you around? will you come out with the miami people?
megan i cant wait till next weekend!!!!
actually, i'm going to be in jacksonville. i think. gainseville? (spelling?) which ever of the two is larger, that's where his best friend lives and thats where i'm going! if we were just going to florida to drive around, i would see what i could do - but this is me meeting (and attempting to make a good impression) on the big people in his life sooo . . .
yes....but!! megan cant surprise you before your bday cause ill be in japan those two weekends...so we have to celebrate your bday the weekend after your bday :)
geezzzzzz my schedule is crazy i hate it!!!
off to our dinner...
jules ill call you later to meet up at suede
are you going to miami in FL that weekend?????? b/c i am too! my friend priya.. the one who had the cute surprise engagement our senior year.. and the one who is getting married on my bday.. well, her bachelorette party is on that weekend in miami.. on south beach. maybe we can meet there!!! even though we live in the same state.. i don't see you enough so we'd have to meet at another corner of the country.
presidents weekend is the wedding.. and the bday!! so i can't do anything then. speaking of which.. since i'm the next bday i get to say something.. can we do something for my bday some other weekend? and can megan surprise me in my living room again???
i'm going away that weekend! florida, actually - buying my plane tickets tonight :) i'm going to meet esther (the best friend) and potentially a cousin and an aunt . . .
peter's probably going to sell his car sometime soon, so if we want to take a road trip we should definitely do it in january (maybe for mlk day? is that in jan? or is it president's day?). i'm all up for that, though. i love skiing! :)
im up for that!!
and i def want to see maria full of grace...im glad im finally in on this netflix thing!!
so, i opened up cnn.com and there is a little piece on how smaller ski resorts are doing well . . . so, i looked up holiday valley and kissing bridge (the two ski places i know of around my grandparent's weekend house) dude - its not that expensive! an 8 hour weekend lift ticket from 38 to 42! equipment rental for 19 to 20-something! so, everyone pack into peter's car and plan a weekend trip this spring :) drive to rochester on a friday, we'll drive to the house that night (only about an hour and a half from my apartment) ski all day saturday, play around in the snow sunday and drive back to rochester/nyc sunday!
just a thought :)
that's what i'm drinking!
but it wasn't free . . .
jules - i forsee you liking dodgeball. its mostly dumb with a few moments of really funny.
today, i should get maria full of grace! i'm really excited :) i've also had men of honor for almost a week now. i just can't get motivated to watch dramatic, true to life, completely unrelated to anything i'll ever experience movies.
oh well.
so - my big project for today is to read a bunch of stuff and figure out what i'm going to be doing for the next couple of weeks. next week, i'll be doing HLA typing. once i have all 26 subjects typed, then i'll be running elispots with peptide stimulation and ICF staining (which i think might be intracellular FAC staining - but i'm not entirely sure)
did anyone understand that? i barely do. . .
i think dodgeball might be next on our netflix. i can't wait to see it! i love stupid movies ;)
i like going to the theater too, i just don't have enough time or money to do all the social activities i want to do. dave simmons (dave, as in dave and willy - miami guys who came to visit me and jacks last year) gets in today. he's coming to visit for the weekend. willy's not coming with him, but he's bringing another friend. i already told jackie that no random boys are sleeping in my bed. .. . they're staying on the couch, dammit! but yea, it should make for a fun partying weekend. suede tonight, maybe go see the radio city xmas spectacular tomorrow, dinner at lotus on friday night. . . .
rups, the people at starbucks love you! i hope your free peppermint mocha cheered you up. ok ladies, i'll talk to ya all later :)
i saw dodgeball : A True Underdog Story last night!
yeah. that's right. you're all jealous!
what happened? did you finally get a good nights rest last night?
i loved hanging out with you yesterday :) until the studying starts again i want to make sure this is at least a weekly tradition. one day next week - before megan comes if you are free id love to come up to your apt, eat dinner, watch a movie or something and sleep over like i used to do when we first moved here...let me know if you know of any day in particular that works well...
ave q was soooo fun! some of the songs were the funniest i have ever heard - inappropriate is not strong enough to describe it but funny nonetheless.
rupa - i told julie that we should try to go see wicked with the 25 lottery tickets. she and i are going to pick random mondays and tuesdays and just go try to get tickets - each person gets 2 tickets for 25 bucks each in the orchestra for the day of! i realllly want to do it :) i love going to the theater...its just too damn expensive...
ok i need to get an hour of work in before we go to our all day meetings...
i would want to do that all the time! there isn't really a system of checks and balances in a place like that - the best they can hope for is an average! you can't take inventory of the coffee and accurately predict exactly how many cups of coffee will be produced by the amount of initial stock. so - it's just a general amount. i think i would decide it was my job to stick it to the man and give away at least one free cup a day.
but now you have to pay it forward! random acts of kindness can not go unrewarded :)
i got a free peppermint mocha at starbucks today!! i went there to splurge on one cuz i was grumpy this morning.. and the woman was really nice.. i didn't realize the scowl on my face was so obvious so i told her i just woke up on the wrong side of the bed.. which is true :)
anyway.. she was like.. you are always smiling.. smile! and then said that this one was on the house. i love that even the evil corporate giant can be nice and gentle sometimes :)
i def got the shady quality opinion...but not much more than HM or victoria secret...i think i saw a few things i liked as possibilites for new fun going out stuff :)
ill explore on friday...
rups - dev and i will meet you outside your office at 645...
jules see you at home, megan see you in a week!
i like mess although i have only bought stuff from the one in india... (where it was before it was in NYC!!! weird)
it's cool stuff but you have to be careful about quality.. some stuff is really good and some isn't. just make sure you feel all the fabric and do the tug test. don't rip it :) just tug at the seam of a pant or a shirt and see if it's strong.. almost like picking fruit!!!
have any of you ever shopped there? one of those coupons was for 30% off and i walked in today since i walked by it from a meeting and some of their stuff looked really cute...
rupa - blogs from you are so fun to read - i can meet you at your office around 645 maybe? thatll give us an hour or so? i mentioned to dev that i was going to try to meet you and he should let me know if that works for him too...otherwise maybe he will just meet us there...
julie - can you take friday off too???
rups - what happened to that party thing that you won? are we still doing that?
i have a bday party to go to sat night, thats at a place where we will get free food but not free drinks...maybe we can all stop by? if not ill just go and meet up later :)
can we make dinner one night? just the 4 (or 5 if jackie is around) of us?? i think that would be super fun....
no offense, nushie, but who would have thought that we would be the charlotte's of the group! i still maintain that i'm miranda - especially sexually. ok, she has more partners in terms of actual intercourse - but if we knock it down a level to pretend like kissing is comparable - well . . . i think we can agree i'm no charlotte ;)
i'm excited for tonight :) nush- we can definitely grab dinner ahead of time. i have a meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 now but can meet right after. could you come here and then we'll go somewhere close to here and walk over?
jules and i just sat through our weekly meeting too.. although this week it wasn't as long as usual.
megan- i haven't really responded to all the goings on in your life recently :( sorry! the picture that didn't really show up yesterday was supposed to cheer you up but i uploaded it and then ran away from my desk so i never got to write a message.
all the stuff with jessie.. here's my lil piece of feedback although this is now days oild :( it seems like things like that.. or relationships like that need to get bad before they get good.. otherwise they never get good. it's like if you guys just stayed in this semi-awkward not really interacting stage then you'd both always be unhappy and never really talk about things b/c it's easier not to. it has to get bad so that the situation is finally out in the open and discussable. otherwise it's not really said. i mean at a certain point.. (i think!!) she'll realize that she wants you in her life and that means having a lil bit of edgar in her life.. i'm just guessing here but it seems like even if she has really strong feelings about the edgar thing that eventually those have to get balanced by the fact that you are with him again and he's in your life.. it's like the friends that never like their friend's boyfriend.. if the friend sticks with the boyfriend, the friends eventually com around. they aren't suddenly best buds.. but are at least civil and in the same place.
i hope you guys (you and jessie) get more time to spend with each other.. that also seems like it really won't change until it's bad enough that people notice.
ok.. enough of the morbid advice. i can't wait to see you!! what is our plan for that weekend again? i'm thinking about taking friday off too so i can join you guys for the museum and whatever else you do.
jules- have you talked to the bossman yet?
nush- glad you got some time away from things.. and that you have been thinking abotu what you really need! it's important to put you first and make sure you are always happy :) super completely happy :)
i took the SATC quiz and am carrie also. weird.. am i really carrie? i thought charlotte too.. actually i don't know anymore..
i'll upload more pics when i can from the party.. there are some fun ones that other work people sent out that i'll try and put on the blog.
ahhh!
i'm so glad that i usually don't have to sit through discussion meetings!
i'm still here. . chugging away at this whole recruiting business and freaking out about xmas presents. i don't know what to get everyone! usually i have a pretty good idea of what i want, but this year. . .blah. i guess it's because what i really want is to buy everybody expensive things, but i keep forgetting that i'm not rich, so i can't really do that. i know, i'm retarded :)
my mom now has my ipod mini and my aunt bought a new ipod, so i think i'm just going to get both of them nice speakers. after that, i have no idea what i'm doing.
ok ladies, i'll write more later. time for a couple of meetings. wee!
well i have my priorities straight - came back, saw 100 emails, got scared so read the blog :) im charlotte...but i agree that the questions arent fair! jules im curious to your answers to see what made you carrie :)
for jules and rupa i called megan yesterday and sort of filled her in on all my drama/mistakes on saturday...we talked a bit, prob need to talk more....
but i spent all weekend/week just thinking and figuring out what i may need in life, what it is the makes me tick and what it is that doesnt...
im sure all of this will take a long time for me to figure out...
rupa - want to try to meet around 7 to grab a quick bite to eat before the show?
why, you ask? well - there was the little over an hour we spent together on friday - 45 minutes of which was at the gym. there was a little under an hour that i saw her for on saturday (from 12:15 to 1ish) the two hours we spend together on sunday (at a movie) and . . . well, that's the last time i saw her.
if i could only watch tv for 2 hours a week, it would be from 8 to 10 on tuesday. obviously, gilmore girls. and at 9 . . the new fox hit tv series "house"! i LOVE it! and last night, they had an outbreak in the natal unit, a baby epidemic. and one of the 8 viruses they checked for was RSV! you guys may not be familiar with that particular virus - but its what my life revolves around . . . so i was excited :)
i haven't looked at the blog in almost 5 hours and i expected lots and lots to have been said . . . but no! nothing new!!!
dude.
i haven't gotten my present yet - but i know what i want to get! hmm . . . come to think of it . . . maybe i should get that soon . . .
that seems a bit random. i'm sorry things have been so crappy with jessie :(
you don't think talking to her would help, though? i mean, you guys have been friends for sooo long. . .maybe talking about the things that have been bothering both of you will make you both feel better. i guess things have been building up for so long between the two of you that there probably isn't going to be an easy way to fix things. . .
and look at the bright side - you'll be here visiting in a little over a week! i can't wait to see you! oooh - that reminds me: i still need to get my secret santa present. . .
that i confronted jessie and she flipped out on me and told she had hated me for a while and had been spending all of her free time with her new boyfriend named jones.
it woke me out of a dead sleep at 4:00am i was so freaked out.
i def didn't talk to her
this is really sad - but i def think we are growing a little apart. i've known for a while that we are very different people - but lately its becoming almost a hinderance. stupid example - she's going to have people up while i'm in nyc. so, there is a chance there will be someone sleeping in my bed. i cleaned my room the other day and i was looking at stuff thinking how i really hope whoever is in my room doesn't touch that or break that . . . and i really don't know. the only rule i've set down so far is NO ONE is allowed to have sex in my bed. and in the back of my mind, i'm thinking really - even her going of course means nothing. i don't trust all of her friends to respect other people's space, and i also don't trust her to remember my demand when she is drunk. then, i was looking at the living room and wish we had a table to eat/sit/work at in the living room next to the bay window, where her bowl chair is. she doesn't sit in it, its just there. i know a table in my house that i would love to steal for that purpose - but one of my first thoughts was how i shouldn't bring that table to my apartment because it'll probably just get gross because she'll have people over at some point and once they've been drinking, she'll decide its a good idea to play flip cup on it.
she chose the big room (without including me - decided since she put in the time picking out an apartment, she gets first choice on the rooms) - yet she gets surprised when i start taking over the living room. and when i suggested she move the bowl chair into her room she was like no, there is no room. so, i suggested that we switch rooms and i'll move the circular couch into my room - if i had the bigger one. nope, that's not ok either.
i think i'm pretty compromising - but i just feel like she never does. and lately - its just getting on my nerves!
and then! saturday night, i was about to go to bed when she got home. i suggested we go to the gym the next day and she told me that she was going to go to a pilates class with some girls from work, did i want to come? no thanks - i don't feel like being the one who doesn't know anyone else AND feeling uncomfortable as it is because i have no idea how to do pilates. she pushed the point with the explanation - you need to get out more, all you do is hang out with edgar or i. umm . . . so, a pilates class where i don't know anyone, won't have time to get to know anyone, and wouldn't choose random waitors from a restaurant i don't even work at to try to start friendships with anyway. instead, i went rock climbing - but i guess that doesn't count as getting out.
ok, enough complaining.
i guess the people that wrote the quiz didn't like miranda too much ;)
but ok, i agree with you. you are def more of a miranda than a charlotte. although, i guess you could be a charlotte since you're in a "serious" relationship now :)
by the way - did you talk to jessie this weekend? are things better between you guys?
is i can't really relate fully to any answer - but i can tell which girl each answer is about! and i would have more miranda answers if they didn't assume that the baby is all there is to miranda! where is the question about sex on a schedule?! where are the questions about while being a skeptic, you still resort to measures like buying expensive sheets to improve your love life? how about the inability to face an ex?
just because i don't have a lazy ovary or pity sex with a one balled man and produce an illegitimate child does not mean i'm charlotte!
jules is right.. the party was amazing. we don't get a discount but we did each get a $100 gift card that david bought personally. we wanted to pool them together to buy a segway.. but it's four grand. so that's a lot of employees!
i'm so tired today though... i need a nap. jules my hyperness high is over :(
how was your weekend megan?
did they have any of the little kid houses on display?
do you guys get a company discount on the toys?!
the company party was amazing! meg - our company party was at f. a. o. schwartz. basically, they closed the store and let us run around and play with everything! they had food everywhere, and a million people attending us and helping us play with things. it was so much fun! i rode a segway! do you guys know what that is? sooo cool. go to www.fao.com and click on electronics.
they even had a grand piano like in the movie BIG. i have a couple of really cute pictures. . . i'll send them out tonight :)
