. . . and now i'm talking to myself . . .

HAPPY NEW YEAR GIRLS!!!!
and so endeth the blog until 2005 . . . .

im gonna leave in like 15 min

happy new year megan! ill talk to you somtime this weekend / next week

jules and rups are lucky :)

not only are they on vacation for a week and a half (well im not sure about rupa but seems like she is away) but when they get back they have so many random fun blogs to read! we are good friends...

yup

will be back sunday night. dev flies in today, around now i think...- havent talked to him since last monday, wrote him one text and thats it.

im really getting used to the whole not talkign to him thing and i think its for the best...the most awk thing is going ot be that there are xmas presents from me to him and from him to me under our tree...urgh...what a horrible time of year for all this to happen. i think when i get back, ill have him come over, we can open gifts (cause what are we going to do with them otherwise??) have dinner and talk...and end it... :-/ although i know he is going to respond to all this saying we can both try harder and make it work but i think im just going to be a brat about it and say what i really feel - i dont want to change - i dont want to make the clock in my head disappear, i dont want to not plan things in advance with the people that matter to me, i dont want to not focus on studying cause he cant handle it...so im not in a state to be in a relationship like this one...

anyway im glad im leaving today :) otherwise id have to face all this now, and avoiding it for a bit longer is def a better option for me now...

cant you get a copy of your key made?

HAHAHAHAHA!

(that's about the tan lines)
so the key situation . . . yeah, no. i was going to just leave him my keys today since he doesn't have to work tonight - but he didn't stay. which is probably better - because my landlord is coming in sometime around 10 to put in smoke detectors in the bedrooms.

i don't know about tomorrow . . .

and then - i'm going to hang out with my parents for new years. they are supposed to pick me up on their way through. they'd pick me up around noonish, a little before on friday so we could have an early dinner with my grandparents. and then on sunday, my mom wants to take my grandma to church - so i wouldn't get back to rochester until early afternoon. i think i want to tell them that i will drive myself so i can leave saturday night and sleep in my apartment saturday and actually have a day off in my apartment. and i think if they weren't picking me up, my parents might drive down on thursday (they both have thursday off) i think i'll call my mom tonight and suggest that . . .

so, today you fly to dc and stay there until . . . sunday?

keys

did you figure out what to do with that since you only have one set?

opposite sleep schedules are the worst...

finger update: no more splint, but i def have tan lines where the splint was :)

day 1

awesome and then horrible.
first of all - he didn't have to work, so no gym - just grocery shopping. then, we came home and he made us chicken fried rice. then we ate and watched house. then my mom called and i talked to her for like 20 minutes. after that, i found him laying in my bed reading. so, i got in bed next to him and started reading to. dead silence for about 45 minutes until at about quarter of 12 i said i needed to go to sleep. of course, he's messed up his internal clock and now doesn't fall asleep until sometime after 3am. so, there was tossing and turning until he finally just went into the living room. he actually came to bed at 6:30! i was like - um, my alarm is going of in half an hour . . . so, i got like 4 hours of sleep. he got none - but now it means he's probably asleep right now so its going to happen all over again tonight.

i'm going to DIE if this keeps up!

good morning megan

i survived my night with 9 people :) it actually wasnt that bad at all...it was kind of nice to have them there cause the two nights before the apt just seemed earily quiet all the time...

today im working till 12, then lunch with kerry then off to the airport...

how was day 1 of the move?

i'm leaving now!

I hope you have fun tonight!
sounds like its going to be an apartment full of brown people . . . scary :)

yup :)

except he is short and not cute and waaay too quiet...so not that exciting.

i envisioned 3 or 4 also! oh well...

peter just called he said he has to drop his roommate somewhere so he cant come over anyway...

i was trying that citibank thing that jules told us about where you get a free ipod mini but it is waaay too much work! i have to fax them a utility bill, a paystub etc etc..none of these things verify a phone number for me so i have to go to a branch to do that - a mini isnt worth that much of my effort!

im gonna leave in like 20 min...i need to take a quick nap before they come over!

i remember!

you told me these people were staying with you!
somehow - i envisioned like 3 people . . . not 8.
one of these is the guy his parent's want you to marry, right?

indians and family

we use the term loosely sometimes :) actually the actual cousin cant stay anymore cause these people are staying, not sure how we are related, but more than blood they are uma chittis best friends...so a mom, dad, 3 kids, plus the moms sis, husband and daughter :)

uma chitti sort of volunteered my apt since she knew j+J were gone...and i didnt realize it was 8 people and just said sure then got caught...oh well...whats the point of having a nice apt in the heart of NYC if you cant show it off to your friends and fam right?

who?

ok, i got the crazy cousin plus his wife. and peter. and you. that's only 4 . . .

nothing wrong with that :)

tonight there are going to be 10 people in the apt!! i dont know how we are going to handle this...

one good thing is that since random people sleep in my bed when im gone, i dont think there should be a problem with my family sleeping in j/js room when they are gone...i tried calling julies phone a couple times to make sure of this but for some reason it always goes to some weird recording thing...not sure what is going on there...

plus peter is coming over tonight :) this should be quite interesting...

rationalizing :)

I think you deserve whatever it is that would make you happy :)
the titanium powerbooks are prettier . . .

need vs want

i def dont need it. infact i dont even need a computer really. i mean anything i need to do i can do from 8-7 when im at work...the rest is just convenience. soooo the light weight of the powerbook should be worth it too right? :)

sooo . . .

you work hard enough that you want the more expensive gadget? not because you need it - just because its more expensive? wow. corporate america has taken you over :)

everyones fine

im still worried that there may be aftershocks, but i guess 3 days later i shouldnt be worried anymore...

i think i work too hard to buy the ibook just cause its cheaper :) i think ill go for the powerbook...ill stop by the apple store one of these days to figure out which one i want...

on computers, family, and edgar

how is your family?? was anyone effected (affected?) by the wave/earthquake? i'm really excited about new years plans with family :)

edgar does move in tonight! after work, i'm going to hit up the gym followed by a trip to wegmans (i just checked the online flyer and made a shopping list) the only thing i haven't worked out is how he's going to leave the apartment in the morning when i only have one set of keys and he doesn't want to have to get up and leave by 8:30 every morning.

as for the computer issue - i have a powerbook. and i agree with you, you really only need the ibook. i think the only major differences are 1. size 2. what its made of 3. size of memory. and really - the RAM and harddrive available is huge compared to what you are probably going to use. just keep the amount of seinfeld episodes you have saved on your harddrive to a minimum :)

computer

do you have an ibook or a powerbook? what does julie have? im thinking of buying a computer and i think i should go with a mac since both my roommates have that and it just looks cooler :) ibooks are waaaay less expensive and for the little use ill have with a computer at home seems like a worthwhile expense.

new years

i cant wait to go to DC. my aunt and i are getting manicures, im taking the kids to see the incredibles, go running with them (if its nice out, which may actually be possible in dc)

my parents flew to india last night. ill call them at 9 pm tonight to make sure they got there ok...

does edgar move in tonight???

if its only two of us - at least it's the two coolest ;)

so, this evening starts my 10 days of experimenting with new years resolutions. why do i say tonight? well, last night i ate a big dinner out, split a pitcher of beer and then came home and polished off a bottle of wine with jess and started in on a second. then, this morning, i was running a little bit late for the 8:30 shuttle, but way early for the 8:50 so i decided i'd walk into work and hit up the dunkin donuts on my way past. so, a bagel with cream cheese and a medium coffee later . . . i'm def losing at the "eat out less, exercise/eat healthy more" resolution.

it is snowing so much - and i guess windy enough - that the flakes look like they are falling up as well as down . . .

bikinis

seeing masses of skinny girls in PR definitely motivated me to want to go to the gym again...but maybe from 6-7 am isnt the best idea. im so tired that i didnt even want to make coffee in the senseo today so i bought some :)

megan its prob just you and me again - rupa must be in philly?

before sunset

we have that from netflix...i really want to see it but it kind of depressed me since i put it on the list/have wanted to watch it with dev and now ill be watching it alone...oh well...

i saw maria full of grace yesterday. i really liked it. it was nice to drop everything turn off the lights and watch a movie by myself.

my parents are going to india today, im a bit worried. this whole tsunami thing is new to me, and scarey...they were thinking of cancelling the trip, but i think it was just cause my mom thought i needed her to stay here with me since dev and i are having issues, but i told her i was fine (cause i really am) and told her if that was the only reason she had to go. i guess i kinda wanted them to think about this tsunami situation but even when i mentioned it neither of them seemed that concerned. i need to lighten up a bit....

xmas was excellent

i got a tiffany's necklace i picked out that my mom told me she wasn't going to get me :) and sushi plates (no, not like the sushi pillows) like, little square ones with matching really little ones for wasabi/soy sauce stuff. season 1 of sex and the city, before sunset, usual suspects, target gift card, an umbrella, a spice rack . . . and some other stuff. everyone liked what i gave them - including dad's pillow from brookstone.

the only annoying thing was steve skipped thanksgiving to be with missy's family under the premise that he'd spend xmas with us. apparently "us" only means immediate family because as soon as it switched to extended family (both dad's side and mom's) he went to missy's. BUT i got to talk to my dad's mom for like an hour - so it was really nice. and then i spent a lot of time with nicky (my almost 5 year old cousin) i sat next to him at dinner and fixed his plate for him and then played with him afterwards. and my parents got gift certificate to outback for jennifer and mark (his parents) and i got them movie tickets plus a movie gift cert. for popcorn and stuff - so jennifer asked me if i was volunteering to babysit. so i might get to babysit for nicky and danny (who is less than a year old - i told jennifer she needed to teach me how to change a diaper) i'm excited about that :)

and tomorrow jessie leaves for colorado and edgar starts his 10 days with me :) i'm REALLY excited for that because 1. jessie will have fun and be in a good mood 2. edgar gets to sleep over 3. classes are over so edgar will be working a lot so i'll get to go to the gym after work without feeling any guilt, get alone time in my apartment to practice cooking, and STILL get to see him without having to leave my apartment! jessie's vacation is as much a vacation for me as it is for her - i just will be going to work each day :)

megan how was xmas?

ive got the routine to make my coffee down to a science now to save me time and give me good coffee :) im getting used to it...

last night, i slept alone

i agree! jessie doesn't get back until today and edgar didn't want to sleep over because i was sleepy and he was wide awake and he knew i'd been getting up way earlier than he wanted to . . so he left at like 11:30. i was on the verge of sleep since like 11:00 and really kicked him out at 11:30. as soon as i laid down again, i was CONVINCED i heard a window open. and then i have all these scary images of someone ringing the doorbell, what would i do (because you can't see the door without going downstairs - and its just sort of creepy when then they can see you)

i don't know how i'm going to deal with living by myself!!!

im back

just caught up on my 100 emails and the few blogs that were there...

the trip was sooo fun. i didnt see luis :( but i did see jo. sad and lonely as usual :( he is a professor at a small university there but spent the whole time we were together complaining that he was under paid (which is true, he only gets like 55, but then again thats for 9 months - i think thats low for a person with a phd!!) he is way too cocky to get anywhere in life though - he thinks just cause he is the smartest person i know that he should rule the world....

the rest of it was just sleeping and relaxing :) then we got back sat night, opened all our xmas gifts (jules i cant wait till you see what sashank got me its soo pretty! its next to the tv now, i just need a nice vase to put it in...) mom and dad got me mostly clothes, some random other stuff, my dad bought me an ugly pin but i told him i wanted to return it and he said he wanted to buy me a burberry purse instead, i went to the store and didnt like anything, so i told him id take a rain check...

havent talked to dev on the phone since the sunday night i believe? after megan left. he has texted me a lot, ive written back with sorry this is so hard but i think its the best and to his long text on xmas all i wrote was merry xmas 2 u 2. last night was the hardest since i was alone from 6 pm. but i watched maria full of grace then the first desparate house wives which was a repeat - which made all of rupas catching up points make so much more sense! and went to bed...i find it amusing that its comforting to know when julie and jackie are sleeping in their own beds or at least coming home later in the night...when im alone all the random noises keep me awake all night!!!

ok time to work...

12 25!!!!!!!!!!

merry christmas girlies!!!!!!

leaving soon

the thug IS good looking. and he's not even a thug! joe's cute, too. and he's a nice guy. and no, you're not shallow. neither am i. i just don't want to commit to one person right now. what's wrong with that??

anyways, ladies, i hope you have guys have a great holiday! i'll be in touch. love ya :)

where did my boss go?

i am out of little things to do - i just went to find eun to have her tell me what to do - and she's not here!! lights off, door locked! so i'm going home :)

enjoy miami julie!
rupa - PA? nyc? either way, enjoy :)

apparently i'm shallow

i don't like peter just because he has a car!
he's nice, he's funny, he's a bit immature - but that just makes you look better ;) he's outgoing and easy to talk to, he seems to have fun with whomever is sitting next to him.
and he played along with my get to know you games!
really, he's one of the girls.

and whatever! even if the car was the only reason, the only thing you pulled out was "i like the way he dresses" for joe!!! and what do you know - you think thug is good looking. give me a tshirt and jeans boy any day (and none of the stratigically placed band tee with expensive jeans crap - that doesn't count)

he's selling his car!

peter's trying to sell his car soon. is that the only reason you like him? will you stop liking him once he sells it?

and i WILL be in like with joe. i like the way he dresses :)

katy just gave me an xmas present. i feel so bad! i didn't get her anything. she got me pretty magnets for my fridge. i guess i'll just bring her something from mia. . .

i love you :)

come on, i tease a lot - but i hardly ever do anything that mean!
ESPECIALLY not when i like the guy :)
so go - go be desparately in like with joe . . .
does HE have a car to drive you to western ny in?

megan, i would have to KILL you

if you ever said anything like that to peter. i like rupa's answer :) hopefully me and peter not seeing each other for 2 weeks will help us get over this weird limbo phase. i hate the idea that i might end up hurting him. poor guy.

i'm going home today!!! i have a ton of shit to do, though, so i'm stressing here at work trying to get it all done. and i have a meeting with my manager today, somethign that he set up. eek! why??

ok ladies, back to work.

oh yea, and i still have xmas shopping to do when i get home. i need to get 2 more presents. . .

meg, good luck getting boring generic gifts for everyone. i'm glad people here don't really give gifts to each other :)

poor peter

and the worst thing is - it is ENTIRELY inappropriate for me to tell him "hey, i voted for you!" next time i see him (calm down julie, i'm just kidding)

so - it turns out, everyone gets everyone gifts!!! KELLY a girl i've known for like 2 maybe 3 weeks - and have barely spoken to! got me a scented candle and holder. dee got me candy and a lotto ticket. i only got presents for gen and courtney! (movie gift cards - just as generic as anything else but more useable than another random lotion/soft gift pack) damn these people. too late! i'm purchasing two more gifts tonight and then i'm done!

man, christmas was so much more fun when all you were obligated to do was make a crappy card for your parents in class . . .

tiebreaker

Hi there... my tie breaker vote would be for Joe. I actually think you'd be better off dating Peter... but I don't think either of you are ready for that :) and I also think you'd wonder what would have happened if you picked Joe. :) Basically Peter will always be around.. Joe won't. So date Joe, if he's better, stick with him, if not, you've always got Peter :) I have a feeling you'll end up with Peter (not END UP as in the rest of your life... but at least of these two, he'll win out). You might as well kiss em both!!! :)

Girls: "1 - 1 tie
1 vote for peter, 1 vote for joe. rups, you wanna be the tie breaker? ;)

nush, that's awesome that you're making money off your coffee maker! meg, you're so smart :)

ok, back to work. argh. so much to do

posted by Jules @ 4:59 PM "

1 - 1 tie

1 vote for peter, 1 vote for joe. rups, you wanna be the tie breaker? ;)

nush, that's awesome that you're making money off your coffee maker! meg, you're so smart :)

ok, back to work. argh. so much to do

did you keep the box?

i just looked up the rebate - you need the upc code and the original cash register receipt. i don't have either (because no cash register was involved . . .)

fun in the sun

you'll have such a good time playing on the beach and being in a warm area with your family - you won't want to even come back to nyc :)
enjoy the sunshine and relax - you deserve it :) :) :) :)

free money?

megan, did you get 20 bucks back for trying the senseo thing? thats what all the ads say...just wondering...if not, i think i can do it for you by just putting in the product number

coffee making has become my new part time job. larry told me to get a tip jar :) i just made him a cup and made one for allen...

also i signed up with citibank today - lets see if the ipod thing works...im still confused what "paying a bill online" means, cause i dont pay very many bills...infact i pay none...anyway if/when i get my card ill look into the logistics more...for now thought it wouldnt hurt to try

i vote for joe

peter is way too jealous. and if he is this jealous now i cant even imagine what hed be like if you actually dated him instead of this neither this nor that stuff...

and this way jackie can take me as her date :)

i want to leave!!! nalini auntie is already there...

i think im ok with the dev thing, i just need to be strong and do whats right for me - thats not so easy when you start hearing about all the wonderful things you used to have. but used to is the key word...

julie's men

the thug is a def no.
i don't know who jeff is - but if he leans toward thug, he's a no too.
as for the joe vs peter debate . . . i'd prefer peter but i'll settle for joe. i understand that there are a whole lot more issues surrounding the will they or won't they of you and peter. acknowledged, joe is MUCH easier, while still not reducing your standards to sub-thug level. and not risking that whole if it doesn't work, you've lost a friend drama. so, i vote yes for the date with joe. especially if he tells you that your friends are really cool (aka his club buddies anusha and i)

same here

i def haven't gotten enough sleep either. not only does anusha's radiator not work, but the cold water pipes in jackie's bathroom froze, so we haven't been able to use that bathroom, either. i still have 2 or 3 xmas presents to buy before i leave tomorrow, i have to pack, and i have a ton of work to finish. yes, i know i've been talking about it all weekend, but i'm still writing my self review. what can i say, i'm a procrastinator.

nush, i'm sorry you've had such a hard time with dev. at least you'll get to spend the next few days with your family in a nice warm place and you can try to figure out what's best for you :)

megan - you'll be happy to know that joe asked me out on a date :) he wants to take me out when i get back from home. also, they have this huge holiday party in mid january for everybody on the floor. i was going to go as jackie's date, but he told jackie that he wanted to take me (although he hasn't said anything to me about it). sooo, you might get your wish after all! although, in your last blog you were advocating that i date peter, so now i'm confused. you can't cheer for both of them!

i'm also supposed to meet jeff for dinner tonight, although i have a ton of stuff to do after work, so i don't know if i really want to spend a lot of time on dinner with someone i barely know, so i think i'm going to call him and just tell him i'd rather meet for a drink, instead.

ok, self review time. yay! :)

megan you should just come here :)

when you were here you didnt have to deal with corrine, i didnt have to deal with dev, life was so fun! :)

i saw our dear helga today...what a horrible job :)

my bro gets in around 4, is coming here to do something online that he needs to do, then we are going to bukhara grill for dinner. rups i dont think he wants to go out cause he is pretty sick. i think we may go home and just watch a movie. will keep you posted

corinne

is jessie's fat annoying friend from college who flew in to rochester where her brother (who goes to geneseo) will pick her up after his finals to drive to their home in albany. but since his last final is like . . . now . . . he's not going to pick her up until tomorrow.

who

is corinne?

hi girls :) i'm sleepy too... but no good excuse. i have to do some work today and finish my review.. so i'll write more later in the afternoon.

adios!

-rups

sooo tired.

i still haven't gotten enough sleep. i contemplated calling in today and telling them i was going to sleep all day so i wouldn't be in. but i draaaaggggged myself in. it sucks, my next real chance to sleep in (until new years) is friday - but i'll be in ogdensburg for the first time in almost a year, so i want to be awake and enjoy my house. and corinne is STILL HERE! she isn't leaving until tomorrow. so - i feel like i don't want to be home. by the time i came home last night, she was drunk (alone) i wanted to watch a walk to remember (which i had on netflix) she talked through most of it, i did my best to be unresponsive and tune her out.

urgh

the radiator in my apt is broken...so no heat...:(
dev called yesterday twice, so i finally called him back and told him that i hadnt been calling him cause i really want this break and i want time to myself and i probably want this to be permanent but we can talk about that in januray when i get back from dc....

he said ok (this was at 10) then he called twice at 3 am...i felt bad and answered - bad idea - we "tried explaining our views" until about 430 at which point i tried explaining to him that was the whole problem - we both want different things and im tired of feeling like i have to change a lot to make him happy and im tired of asking him to change to make me happy. i jsut want to be by myself...he didnt take it so well, kept discussing insisting we could reach an agreement, i finally said i have to go and just hung up at like 445...

i called this morning to say that im sorry i hung up but i needed to end the conversation and i cant handle that anymore, hence the desire to break up. he kept reminding me of wonderful things we had - i kept reminding him that those wonderful things happened a long time ago and its not so wonderful anymore...anyway i leave at like 1 am today so ill def have my break/time to myself soon enough....

thought i should update you whether you want it or not :)

fyi - i saw cheaper by the dozen yesterday cause peter told me he thought it was funny and "really good" yeah well 10 min into i realized why he thought that - HILLARY DUFF. :) i was amused

which way did he go which way did he go

helloooooo (echo, echo)

i miss everyone already :)

0 degrees and other happy news

i am DYING! i made it on time for the meeting - but only because 1. it never starts on time and 2. they just switched community laptops and it wasn't configured right for something so they were working on it when i walked in. i was technically about 15 minutes late.

i almost died when i got off the plane last night. you know how it was really mild and not windy in NYC yesterday? well, it was 2 degrees, negative 10 with wind here. edgar was waiting for me in the airport when i got off the plane and just handed me his coat :) its that cold again today - i hate hoping into my car in the morning and seeing my breath.

my flight got delayed about 40 minutes yesterday. i think we actually waited for someone on a delayed connecting flight - probably because it was the last flight that day to rochester. then, jfk was backed up because of the snow starting to fall. so, we didn't land until 12:35. i wasn't in bed until 1:30 in the morning. and i thought it was so perfect . . . security was backed up, so i was sitting at the gate for about 3 minutes when they started boarding my flight. I knew that perfection was too good to be true . . .

i think julie should date peter. he already gets along with your friends (which, less be serious when you friends range from jackie to me is quite a find) he completely dropped football for JUST MARRIED!!! because we asked him to. if he's getting sex with julie out of the deal, he may never watch sports again! there would have to be some life style choices, but i think he'd be ok with you still going out with jackie and her thugs (maybe not every night) as long as you weren't quite so excited about free drinks from guys who want to buy their way into your pants. and you guys already know you can be friends! he's already seen you at your worst and in your worst mood and he still likes you!

its snowing again. there is going to be some serious digging out of my car necessary this evening if it keeps up . . .

coffee!!!

it tastes really good....but it makes a lot of noise and is kind of inconvenient at my desk since i have to go to the kitchen to get milk, sugar, etc...and clean it...id leave it out there but i dont want other people to use it! im selfish :)

anyway im enjoying it :)

that was convenient to post the conversation :) jules i think a possible solution would be to not invite him out to a place like strata, he had fun with us, but anytime i talked to him he was just frustrated with you guys - stick with the non drunk non following other guys around kind of hanging out when you invite him....

poor guy...i agree with rupa though, i think he hopes youll just change your mind and all the affectionate stuff that comes out now isnt just normal to him, its false hope...

go do your reviews!

details

well jules is having a busy day :) so i'm posting her IMs as a way for all of us to hear about the conversation.. i'm sure she can fill in more for us later :)

-rups
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r u p i e land: yup. so everything ok with peter? i heard tidbits when i went to sleep that night
r u p i e land: if you want to blog it instead.. that would work too :-)
smurf1015: haha
smurf1015: yea, i don't know
smurf1015: anusha said the same thing in the blog :-)
r u p i e land: heh heh
smurf1015: i guess everything's ok, i dunno
smurf1015: p: i don't want us to just be friends
smurf1015: j: lets be friends
smurf1015: blah blah blah
smurf1015: same stuff again
r u p i e land: ha ha
r u p i e land: oh well :-) at least he's persistent
smurf1015: haha
smurf1015: yea
smurf1015: not fair though. . .i was still pretty wasted when you guys came home
r u p i e land: yeah.. not a good time to have a talk
smurf1015: exactly
smurf1015: did he say anything on the drive home?
r u p i e land: not really
r u p i e land: he said he was confused
smurf1015: why's he confused?
r u p i e land: i don't know.. i didn't really keep talking about it
r u p i e land: but my guess is that he sees the way you are in person.. affectionate and everything.. and sees that there could be something there
r u p i e land: he porbably is just hoping you'll change your mind :-)
smurf1015: haha
smurf1015: yea, but i was always affectionate with him - even before we kissed
smurf1015: megan mentioned something yesterday - about me laying on him at your apt
r u p i e land: ha ha.. yeah they were joking in the kitchen
smurf1015: and that's def something that i would have done before
r u p i e land: her and nush and me
r u p i e land: yeah true
r u p i e land: but it probably means more to him since you have kissed
r u p i e land: you know?
smurf1015: i know
smurf1015: but. . .i don't want to be totally cold with him, either
smurf1015: you know?
r u p i e land: yeah.. it's hard to just switch
r u p i e land: it seems like when this happens between friends that you want to go back to "normal" but one person never really thinks it's normal again
r u p i e land: and it's usually the person who wants something more
smurf1015: ugh
smurf1015: yea
r u p i e land: yeah :-(
smurf1015: i guess i'm just hoping it'll get better with time
r u p i e land: are you sure you don't want this though? you seem so happy with him :-)
smurf1015: haha
smurf1015: yea, i'm pretty sure i don't want this right now
smurf1015: but you're right, we get along great. i guess that's why we've been good friends for so long
r u p i e land: yeah you guys definitely get along great.. it's really cute :-)
r u p i e land: ok.. blog all this!!! so nush can read too :-) otherwise just post our conversation
smurf1015: haha
smurf1015: i'll post our convo
smurf1015: cause i don't want to write all this
smurf1015: i already have to type up the rr
smurf1015: and do more statistics
r u p i e land: ok... i'll post :-)
smurf1015: so, looks like i wont be working on my self review during the day
smurf1015: thanks. . .you're awesome :-)
r u p i e land: no prob..
smurf1015: i know you probably like your office
r u p i e land: oh.. he also mentioned that you thought he was ignoring you
r u p i e land: which was confusing too i think

megan youre the best :)

everyone is jealous of my coffee maker :) i took it out of the box but havent had time to clean it or read about how to make it work...hopefully ill do that in the next 15 min cause i really want coffee!!!

also having you around helped a lot with this stupid break with dev...i havent talked to him since thurs night and only texted him once on friday when i told him i saw his friend...he has called a lot, left one message but i havent called back...im hoping drinks with work/packing will hold me over tonight and then sashank will be here tomorrow so that should be easy...then im off tues night/wed morn :)

jules - the next blog should have more details on the peter conversation...when i went to the bathroom peter was just saying i cant just be your friend lalala lots of dramatic things...soo.... :)

how's your lab meeting, megan?

i hope you got in ok. it's so cold here today (12 degrees, -1 w/wind chill), so i can't even imagine what it's like in rochester! i decided to treat myself to starbucks since it's so cold out, so i'm sitting here sipping the last of my nonfat white chocolate mocha :)

nush - how's your new coffee maker??

i hope you all have great days :)

guessing no blog today

since anusha and megan are playing in nyc while the d. e. shaw girls are hard at work.

hope we all have a lovely weekend! :)

ok, i'm leaving!

that's it. i'm gone. i've been here 8 hours :) :) :)

since you love public transportation....

my method to get home, would be take the airtran to the jamaica stop, then take the E train to Spring st. Julie and rupa take the LIRR but then you have to switch at penn station and it end up saving you maybe 15 minutes but costs some amount of money (not a lot) and you risk getting lost :) but if they want to give you those directions, ill leave that up to them...

but if you take the E to spring, itll take maybe 45 min on the subway. when you get out of the subway station, call me :) ill be home waiting and ill come meet you!!!

i think we can figure things out with those clothing options...and if not, there is a cute store near us where they have cute shirts for 10-15 bucks...ive been meaning to go there and get new going out clothes since i hate all my clothes these days...

ohmygod what should i wear!

no, seriously . . . right now, i have a pair of tight jeans and a pair of black pants packed, the shirt i got when you guys were here, a black tube top, a black short sleeve shirt and the black tank top anusha gave me from her collection all those years ago (the cleavage shirt - the straw that broke the camel's back on alex and i hooking up for the first time - oh the memories . . .)

frankly, i don't know if i own anything more clubby these days. i'm hoping between those combos, you guys can dress me to go out in nyc for 3 nights.

and as for the temperature complaints - dude, i checked weather.com yesterday. 40s is not cold! 20s up here baby!!

so - i should be going to jules and nushies when i land, right? i know i've done it before - but is someone either planning on meeting me some place or can you give me a run done on train #s on how to get to spring st? (thats the subway stop, right?)

i LOVE public transportation! riding the T to get to and from logan when i was in boston for the parade made me so happy :)

heat

yea, jackie had to ask david to turn on her heat cause neither of us could turn the knob. you should just call him up tonight or something and ask him to do it. i think the pipes make noise even if it isn't on - you just have to turn it on to let the heat out. i'm not expert or anything (we definitely didn't grow up with heaters or radiators or whatever they're called in miami), but i think that's how it works.

we already got a promise of free drinks tonight for us (jackie and me) and all of our friends. josh (jackie's friend from manhattan who always invites us to his parties. rups, he's the one that throws strata) felt bad because he couldn't help us get 4 guys into suede on tuesday, so he told jackie that to make up for it he would make sure any guys that come out with her can get in, and that he'd buy us free drinks all night. woo-woo! so megan, i hope you're ready to party by ~11pm tonight! i think the party he throws tonight is vizcaya? i'm going shopping with jackie after work (i still need to get some secret santa stuff!), and then i'll try to go home and take a little nap before getting ready to go out.

meg, i can't believe you'll be here in a few hours!

:)

cant turn the knob on the heat :(

david (the super) was in the apt yesterday too! i should have asked him...

i just thought i didnt know what to turn but jackie told me she had to have him do it cause its shut so tight....the pipes in our rooms (i heard it in jackies) also make annoyingly loud noises so maybe it is on? if it isnt on i cant seem to understand why it would make those noises...

im still waiting for my review for the 3rd quarter :) then only can i start my 4th q self review....

i was wondering why you were sleeping in the living room

have you turned on the heat in your room? it's weird that your room is so cold - jackie's room was pretty warm this morning, and she has an a/c in her room, too.

i tried to get up at 6am this morning to hit up the gym before work. yea, that didn't work. i could just feel how cold it was out, so i decided to just eat healthy all day and skip the gym :) although, eating healthy is kinda hard with all this food lying around. . .

urgh. i need to write my self-review. it's due tomorrow (i'm such a procrastinator!). can somebody just tell my boss that i'm awesome and have him give me a huge bonus???

i feel a little better :)

megan, one of your tasks this weekend will be to help me take my airconditioner out...my room is freezing (i think maybe it just feels that way since im sick and even if its 100 degrees i think id feel cold) but anyway, thought id leave it in for you since you like the cold, but before you leave it has to come out!

i cant wait for this weekend :)

ice skating!

yes! but in central park, cause ive never been there...make sure you write down the discount that you get from work if we go

im going home now...allen left to get his haircut and said he wasnt coming back, so i responded with im gonna go home too :)

jules i wish we had the 5 movie thing now!! oh well i think ill watch sex and the city and sleep...so i can fell better for megan!

i'm sure you'll want to go out

but we can just play it by ear. i wouldn't mid staying home - i go out way too much anyways. . .i'm running out of clothes to wear to clubs!

last night jackie and i went out. she went to drinks after work with some work people, and she ended up talking to paul (not the paul that anusha and rupa know, another one), this guy that she thinks is really cute but he's like scared of girls or something because he just stares at her all day at work, he doesnt' talk to her. anyways, so after drinks they decided they wanted to go clubbing so i, of course, had to do my duty as a best friend and go with her. it was fun meeting this guy that she's been talking about forever, although it was also kind of weird because the guys were all really really fucked up.

tonight i just want to do my 2 hours at the gym and then go home and get some house work done. then tomorrow after work jackie and i are going to do some shopping. yippeee!

i just finished calculating a bunch of overtime hours that the company owes me (since july), so i'll probably be getting a nice chunk of change soon. yay!

and it's still so hard to believe that i'll be home next week. and that megan will be here tomorrow night. do you girls want to go ice skating one day this weekend?

weird

weird

you will want to play :)

but i'm happy doing anything.. we could go to free wine and just go out to a bar if the boys don't have an option for us to go to.. i just want us to all be somewhere together :)

ask me again thursday night

the reason i was thinking of staying in is because i've been getting up early the last couple of days and will again tomorrow (be in the lab around 7:30am) and i still have been going to sleep between 11 and 1 because i hang out with edgar after work and then jessie after she gets home from work. hopefully, i'll go to sleep early today because i won't see edgar and jessie will be there when i get home from work to hang out. but i was late handing over samples this morning (which, incidentally, was not my fault but the lady still acted mad at me) and she made sure i knew they needed them by 9:30 tomorrow morning or else wait until monday.

and, really, by the time i get to nyc i'm probably going to be so excited to see you guys that i'll ignore the obvious exhaustion and want to play anyway :)

let's see if it likes me . . .

testing 1 2 3

i posted but its not showing up :(

no staying in...

megan we should go out! julie and i were thinking free wine for dinner thurs when you get in (so we will go there around 10???) then go to wherever the boys let us in free...and if we dont like it like suede last time you were here we can always leave but we should at least go out for a little bit! plus when we go with jules and jackie everything is free :) thats def the way to go....

i feel like crap :( i didnt want to come in today but since im off friday i felt obligated to. i think i may leave early (although i said that yesterday and i was here till 630...)

sorry, i don't live by my calendar

anusha is usually my calendar, so she usually reminds me of important stuff i have to do. it's her fault for not reminding me when megan's getting in :)

joe (the guy that works with jackie. nush, you know him as the guy with the ugly shirt. rupa, you met him last sat) wanted to hang out on thursday night, but i'll tell him i'm busy with my girl megan. meg, you just wanna stay in on thursday?

its been in my calendar for weeks :)

rupa has a dinner to go to, so you should just come straight to our place and we can figure things out from there :)

details details . .

in case anyone was concerned, i'll be arriving on flight 33 (jetblue) at 8:30pm at JFK.
i will be taking off from JFK at 10:35pm on sunday on flight 30

i want to leave now too!

i was here at like 7:30 . . . so, i'm rapidly approaching that 8 hour mark! ok, i'll update the excel spreadsheets . . . then i'll go home :)

and tsk tsk julie . . . you aren't planning your entire week around my arrival thursday evening?! in case there was nothing planned, i wouldn't mind a very calm sedate boring thursday night to start of the wild crazy fun weekend :)

blah

i feel like crap. i think i may go home early. i really hope its just feeling empty and not feeling sick....the latter would be so much worse!!! :)

jules megan gets in thurs night

when do you get here again, megan?

i can't seem to remember if you arrive thursday or friday. . .

nush, we got to the salsa place yesterday (which is right by our apt, on 7th ave and houston), but they weren't having the lessons because they were closed for a private party. oh well, maybe next week.

today i'm going home after the gym, making dinner, cleaning up the living room and kitchen a little bit, and then passing out. i'm tired too, and i want to rest up for the weekend!

we'll take your mind off of him!

how will you be able to think about boys with all the hot babes around you this weekend?!?!

snow update - it stopped earlier but its going again. big fat flakes. it looks really pretty through the window . . . but i really hate driving in it . . .

not grumpy anymore

i decided today that i think ill take my aunt up on her offer to spend new years with her, arjun, and avinash. so i think im going to fly there wednesday night before new years until sunday. i think thatll be really fun :)

i was grumpy cause of dev (surprise surprise). im trying the real break now which started at 8 am this mornign when i left his apt. i wonder how long it will last....thankfully things will be really busy and hopefully will keep my mins off of it as much as possible (with megan coming, than PR next week, then DC the week after). maybe avoidance is second best therapy to a rebound person :)

jules, what was the deal with the salsa thing? i think ill go home, work out and then just go to sleep...

and swallow illegal drug pellets?

hey, i saw the movie! i know what you colombian girls are like!

i'm in a good mood today, but tired - i slept too much on sunday so i couldn't fall asleep sunday night - then yesterday, i was going from 8am until 11pm running errands and work - then jess wouldn't stop talking to me so i didn't go to bed until after midnight. and then i'm getting all of the RSV patients from this year and last year typed - so i have to get the samples ready for the lab that does it. so - i was here this morning at 7:30 and will be every day this week in order to get all 27 patients finished by thursday.

its snowing here! i had to brush off my car this morning before going to work. we're scheduled for another 1 to 3 inches today. the problem with the snow is that once it starts, it doesn't stop. now that its finally cold enough to form the snow - last year seems like it snowed 5 out of 7 days . . .

awww

why were you grumpy?? i always get a nice smile from the coffee vendor that i get coffee from occasionally, but i'm a little jealous that the starbucks people don't like me as much as they like rupa!

i'm tired today (surprise, surprise). i spoke to my mom and dad - they left for colombia on sunday. they both sound sooo happy! they're each staying at their mother's houses, so they're being spoiled rotten right now. i'm happy for them -they definitely deserve it. i don't think they've gone to colombia in like 3 years! i'm definitely jealous too, though. i wish i could sit in my grandmother's nice warm kitchen with them and have yummy food :)

grumpy mornings and nice people

unfortunately i dont frequent starbucks so no free coffee but the fruit stand guy that i walk by every day gave me lots of random free fruit this morning :) he asked for a hug after which i thought was totally sketch, but def still had more of a bounce in my grumpy walk to the office...

sorry so lost

but i'm here! just been busy and tired all day. had a really good weekend - went to tons of good restaurants and clubs. i love miami guys - they didn't let us pay for ANYTHING all weekend :)

i'm going home in a little bit 'cause i have some stuff to do (a.k.a. shopping), and then i think we're going salsa dancing tonight!

ok, please forgive me for neglecting you ladies. i love you all!

meg, can't wait to see you.

i have one!

i just don't update it :)

do you want an address book from your secret santa?

63 sullivan
apt 4
ny ny 10012

if anyone is looking for a cool cheap gift for someone who likes flower vases, crate and barrel has these awesome ones that are conical and roll on their side, so they dont stand upright, i think its called roly vase or something on the website...2 for 10 bucks...i just went to buy my dad glasses like that, and bought myself the vase and one fore kerry and ellen...

julie or nush

what's your address again?

similar complaints

so, apparently jessie felt the same way about me this summer - only on top of not seeing me, edgar was in her apartment all the time. i maintain she didn't talk to me about this - except the occasional hey, we don't hang out together which seemed more like a two way thing than all because of me. so, that is the one thing that came out of our talk - wednesday nights (her night off) we'd do something (gym, movies, etc.) and we'd hang out at least one morning on the weekend (sunday brunch, saturday morning shopping, etc) of course this weekend, i had my famiy thing saturday and she's been picking up shifts to save for the snowboarding trip with nadia, so she worked sat and sun morning. this weekend i'm in nyc, next weekend i'll be in buffalo, the weekend after that starts her 10 day vacation . . . then there will be one weekend in january we'll both be home then i'll be in florida . . . so, this *new agreement* will come in to play somewhere around the end of january. and of course, if her classes haven't started up, she'll probably work as many hours as possible to cover bills . . .

whoaaa

really? you are not renewing? thatllbe good for you and edgar...and i guess youre right, space will let you like her again cause itll be special when you hang out not just being home at the same time...

toral and i arent doing so well these days either - part of the blow up sat night where i made a complete fool of myself - but like everyone says, all that crap came from somewhere...

ever since rakesh came in the picture over 7 months ago, there hasnt been one night where she has given up hanging out with him to just have time with me...granted the few times we have tried something family related has come up which is def ok, but its not like the next weekend or the next day she even tries again. its always me asking and im sort of sick of it. im tired of cancelling plans i have with dev or anyone else to do something with her which i used to do alll the time before rakesh was in the picture and she wanted to come to ny every weekend but now she cant even spend a weekend apart from him to just hang out with me...we havent been just the two of us since well before my bday...i thought we had a "talk" after the episode sat night, but it still feels weird and still feels like unless i keep asking we wont have any alone time...

i guess the big thing ive learned from all this is that people have different priorities in life at different times and that has to be ok, even if 7 months can go by...thats a hard thing to get used to...

the fam

it was nothing. in fact, i would have felt weird without him. steve brought missy, my cousin kenny brought his gf, my cousin george brought his. significant other's were everywhere. we took a pic with grandma plus grandkids, then another one with grandma, grandkids, and dates. there was 30 something people there, so he didn't stand out. and for like an hour, he played halo 2 with a couple of my cousins while i played pool with steve, missy, and george's gf. the only weird moment was when my uncle asked how long we'd been together and there was a marriage joke made by my drunk aunt and my uncle was like no - they shouldn't be worried about marriage until late 20s! and edgar and i both shut up about the fact that he is in his late 20s.

as for the stuff with jessie . . . whatever. we talked, i don't know how much it changed anything except that maybe now she will talk to me about stuff when it bothers her. i think there is a definite unspoken agreement that when our lease is up in july, we will NOT be renewing it. i'm looking forward to a 1-bedroom and enough space from jessie to like her again.

how was meeting the fam???

what did you tell jessie??

my weekend

edgar got to meet my dad's side of the family on saturday!
i went out with gen and courtney on friday - i got hit on by two guys :) one was just gross, but the first guy was funny! he came up beside me and whispered (as much as you can whisper in a loud bar) i've got a step ladder back at my place. yeah, he was about a foot shorter than me . . . no chance of getting play, but he gets an E for effort.

sunday - i barely got out of bed :) edgar came over at like 11 and we laid in bed until 1. then went out for breakfast and got chai (that's our thing now - we're chai drinkers :) ) then we came back to my apartment and watched maria full of grace (again, in my bed - you can see where the 'barely got out of bed' came from) at like 9, he got to do my shopping with me :) walmart, then two different wegman's. yup, we are THAT domestic :)

i saw jessie for like an hour on friday night and for about 10 minutes on sunday. we talked on wednesday - so things are starting to get better. she's picking up extra shifts though to save money so she can go away for ten days around new years. i'm REALLY excited for those 10 days. she'll be happy because she's going snow boarding with nadia (friend from high school, i don't know if you guys know any stories) and i'll be happy because edgar can basically live in my apartment for that time.

in the short term, though, there is only one thing on my mind - NYC!!! everything is making me think about it. today, our lab meeting was really a prep session for a bigger presentation being given on friday. it was very very dry, and i would be dreading going to it again on friday but wait - i don't have to! i'm planning my experiments this week to be done by wednesday so i can just do non-intensive stuff on thursday. i've already started thinking about packing - and i'll probably start putting it in my bag tonight :) SO EXCITED!

fun weekend

hi!!! i had a really good weekend too.. basically b/c i did almost nothing. which i love.. i got to see nush on sunday and hang out with j/j on saturday. here's a picture from saturday!!!

happy monday.

subways..

2 gross subway experiences:
1. a guy tried taking pictures of me with his camera phone - i was totally grossed out
2. the subway at night smells like pee.

but i survived them both....

i had the best weekend, it was so relaxing and i got to do so much! saw a few movies, went to devs office party, WENT TO RUPAS APT (that was the highlight i think....)

megan - 4 more days!!!

relax!

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...

find out who!

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 :)

in case anyone cares...

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 :)

i want one! :)

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...

does jose oscar not exist???

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?!

look at . . .

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 :)

im still confused

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 :)

fridays

the only thing good about today is that gen and courtney don't seem motivated to do anything either :)

sushi pillows

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!!!!

what did you miss?

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 :)

i think i missed something....

what pillows are we talking about?? im confused.....

those pillows are FUNNY!

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 :)

i dont think thats allowed

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!!!!

what i hope my secret santa does NOT get me....

pillows

uuummmm . . . more to florida than miami!

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 . . .

feb

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

martin luther!!!!!

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???

martin luther needs to be celebrated in another way

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 . . .

road trip

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! :)

ski!

im up for that!!

and i def want to see maria full of grace...im glad im finally in on this netflix thing!!

why you should drive to western ny

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 :)

double tall mocha

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. . .

meg, i am jealous!

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 :)

theater smeater!

i saw dodgeball : A True Underdog Story last night!
yeah. that's right. you're all jealous!

grumpy???

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...

why i could never work at starbucks/mcdonalds/other corporate giant

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 :)

good morning girls!!

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 :)

haha

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!

mexx!!

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!!!

mexx

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...

so excited!

i'm going to nyc in like a week!!!!

:)

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....

charlotte vs carrie

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 ;)

ave q!

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.

just sat through boring meetings

ahhh!
i'm so glad that i usually don't have to sit through discussion meetings!

welcome back nush :)

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!

back from the dead

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?

and i haven't talked to jessie

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.

new fav tv show

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 :)

disappointment

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.

secret santas

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 . . .

check out this chair :)

jones?

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. . .

i had a nightmare

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.

no and i don't know . . .

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.

ok megan

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?

the problem with the quiz

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!

hmmm . . . something seems wrong with this situation . . .

it's official. . .i'm carrie!

Which Sex and the City Vixen Best Matches Your Sex Style?

it's official. . .i'm carrie!

Which Sex and the City Vixen Best Matches Your Sex Style?

fun quiz!

Which Sex and the City Vixen Best Matches Your Sex Style?

it was super fun!

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?

cooool

did they have any of the little kid houses on display?
do you guys get a company discount on the toys?!

f. a. o.

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 :)

how was the weekend!!!

tell me stories :)

edgar and grandma

what did your mom say to that? do they know you are back together or are you still evasive about that?

its so weird that its so close to the end...this time tomororw i will be taking my first drink of the evening :)

jessie

she just emailed me again. my first response i didn't even mention her cancelling on me. her second email was like are you ok with me going out? it's just such a stupid question to ask. what, i'm going to say yes? so that we can have an evening of her wishing she were out with them drinking? i told her that i already had plans tomorrow so it would have to wait until sunday if she still wanted to go see the movie and i didn't care whether she went or not. her response to that included a big love you at the end.

i ALSO asked my mom whether she would be uncomfortable if i brought edgar to my grandma's surprise party on the 11th . . . oh, this could get interesting.

def talk to her

i think its gone on too long megan, she is being a bit ridiculous - he was at fault too!!! i kinda see where she is coming from in that she doesnt like him so she wants to avoid it totally - but its not fair when she cancels on you for them... :( i just dont like that in general....

sorry meg :(

maybe talking to her will help. she might not even realize what she's doing to you. .

nush, i am getting my nails done at the new place on spring and sullivan. jackie and i are going when i get home from the gym - probably around 6 or 6:30. i'm going to leave here in a little bit and go to the gym. soo. .. you should wait and come with me and jackie! :)

i just slept through a seminar

it was only an hour long and i could no stay awake for the life of me! the lecture hall was decent size, but i got told that i should go by gen and courtney. but i still don't understand what they are talking about! i understood some of it - T cells working with B cells and cell migration - but only vaguely!

and no more plans with jessie. jordan (brent's friend) invited her out partying where brent goes to school. they were supposed to go out yesterday for brent's birthday but brent cancelled. i think i'm about to have a talking to with her sometime soon. i don't understand how she is holding on so tight to her dislike for edgar that she won't even say his name to me (basically) she asked me if i wanted to do something wednesday - but after she had barely spoken to me for an hour of me being home. i already had plans with edgar so i said no and she was kinda just like oh, whatever and hid in her room again. so - does she miss spending time with me? if so, she cancels on me when we had plans . . . and she was like want to go see the movie sat or sun? well - i already have plans for saturday. only for like 2 hours - but since she has to go to work, 11 to 1 kills the potential for us to go to a movie after that and for her to still make it to work by 4. whatever - i just don't know how she can stand by ignoring such a large portion of my life and think its ok.

oops i guess it did post :) oh well more to distract you all

Girls

i hate when i blog then it says page cant be displayed...

jules, are you getting your nails done down here? if you are you should let me know what time and ill go with you - and if you arent, you should :)

i went to the sample sale - not exciting - they had no sevens and i wasnt really in the mood for other types i know little about...anyway now im home, finished lunch and am trying to figure out the best way to spend the last 6 hours of studying....

nails!

julie - will you do your nails here near the apt?? then i can go with you? if you do then call and let me know around what time just so i can make sure im done with everything i need to do by then...

i bought eggs for breakfast, turkey to make my lunch for tomorrow, then went to the sample sale - which i wasnt too excited about. no sevens, and the other stuff i hadnt heard of and didnt want to spend that kindo f money when i really just want a pair of sevens more to know that i have sevens....

then i bought a sandwich and came home...now im trying ot figure out what the best use of my last 6 hours or so of studying should be...

not dead.. just swamped :(

hi girls

i'm not dead today! this week was busier than i thought it would be. i think my days are gonna always be like that.. i'll start writing a summary blog at the end of the day :) after i read everyone else's.

jules i'm glad your night was so good :) and that you are in such a good mood. my night was really good too.. work but good. i stayed late and worked on a bunch of things.. but was super productive after all the others left and then had a late late dinner with moush and ameya.. which was fun :)

i'm so excited for this weekend.. all the sales and the xmas party and nush finally being free of studying! i hope we go somewhere fun for dinner. i've decided to make a dress for the xmas party although i don't know if i'll really have time. i may duck out early at like 6 and try and work on it tonight. no hamptons party for me :( (I need to be sloppy sloppy drunk to really enjoy the essence of all those people and to enjoy hearing "rrrrrupa" which i hate :) ) but i might go out with moush/sam/rachna, etc later.

i'm kinda in a crappy mood today.. so i may stop by later, jules so your hyper happiness can rub off on me. but megan, i have been in a really good mood all week.. and haven't really talked to you.. hi!

more in a bit.. have another meeting. blah.

who needs them anyways?

i'm in a GREAT mood! i love fridays :) i think i'm going to leave work at like 4, go to the gym, then go get my nails done and start the partying!

amazing how energized you are when you get more than 7 hours of sleep. who would have thought?

i met a guy from medellin last night. it was so much fun chatting with him! it's great to meet people that love my hometown almost as much as i do :)

Julie!

stay strong! we can live without the brownies!!!!!

park ave

so different in rochester :)

im going home :) ill talk to you guys later and wont be back at work till wednesday! so megan and julies youll have to do without both the indians blogging unless rupa revives from the dead....

wicked sunny

it is super sunny here. snow on the ground and a bit windy - but really sunny. nush - fake sunshine :) i walked from my car to the lab (20minutes-ish) and it was sooo nice :)

tonight i get to have a hang out with jessie night :) after i get out of work, we are going to go to the gym together. then, the plan is see bridget jones 2 somewhere - probably eat somewhere in that range.

there was a park ave vendors open house yesterday - all the businesses on park ave (one of the cross streets to the block i live on) edgar and i went - mostly it was lots of people walking around and not a lot to do - but we went to a little sub shop for dinner. there was a family with a little boy just old enough to walk by himself. he kept running back to see us because i was making faces at him to make him laugh. eventually, his mom was the adult that was on follow him around duty and she saw me and was like oooh, that's why you like coming back here! and told me he was a big flirt :) it was cute :)

you're coming to nyc in a couple of weeks!

i can't believe we're already in december. where did this year go???

i'm in such a great mood! i love fridays. and i guess the fact that i was in bed by 9:30 last night doesn't hurt. i met up with jackie after work yesterday - she was at some xmas party with her work people. joe, the guy i kissed a couple of weeks ago, kept asking her about me and kept telling her to invite me. it was fun, but i def had like no food in my system, so i got a little buzzed after a couple of drinks. jackie was pretty wasted. i don't know how that girl does it. she'd been drinking since like 4 o'clock! anyways, it was a fun night.

tonight we're going to an xmas party with a bunch of hampton people (rups, you sure you're not interested??). and then this weekend i'm looking forward to shopping and our xmas party :)

i had a large coffee from the street vendor this morning, so i've been BOUNCING off the walls. plus it's friday and it's kinda sunny (although cold) out, so i'm sooo hyper!

sample sale!

uuuuh :)
that's so shopaholic takes manhattan :)
man, i really need to get out in the world . . .

36 hours and ill be free

im leaving at noon, going to get my nails done, then get groceries to make lunch, then go home...jules i may stop by that sample sale today on my way home and get jeans to wear tomorrow night :) plus i hope itd be less crowded and picked through before the weekend...we shall see its so close to home, and hour study break cant hurt :)

i agree with megan

don't let anything dev-related bring you down now. take your test, have a GREAT time with your friends on sat night, and then deal with boyfriend stuff.

youre right :)

its just so frustrating...

i know youre right its just too many things adding up. and when you are in as much pain as i am all i want is for my boyfriend to pick up a phone and call...not at midnight and fine maybe not as soon as i text him at 7, but come on...its 445 the next f*ing day...thats annoying even if i didnt hurt my finger!

im gonna go home in like 15 min...relax then take the test...

not that i'm 100% on his side but . . .

i think this more minor of an offense is getting under your skin more because the badness as of late.

it's bad. but not HORRIBLE . . .

more important than passing judgement on dev - IGNORE HIM AND STUDY/TRY TO RELAX! all that matters for the next two days is the test :)

friends

there were two poor nushies and lots of love from my friends..yet my boyfriend of 1.5 years hasnt even called me to see how im doing...

yesterdat i texted him last night at 7 pm that i thought i broke my finger....he called once at like midnight and thats it...i didnt pick up cause i was too annoyed....am i wrong to be annoyed???

screw what they ask for

i'm going to get myself everything I want :)
it's so hard when kids have cool toys and you don't get to steal them from them.

poor nush

you should take nyquil today! that way you'll get at least one good night of sleep before your test.

we just came back from toys r us. it's so much fun playing santa! i got my kid a fisher price interact dvd thingy, rupa got a dollhouse, and radie got a barbie karaoke electric guitar :)

i'm going to be such a bad parent - i'm just going to buy my kids EVERYTHING they ask for :)

73!

thats great megan! way better than 30!

someone needs to make this pain go away...i cant handle it anymore :( and im just exhausted now since i didnt sleep much...jules - your nyquil/exam situation is the only thing that is holding me back from taking some strong stuff to make me sleep...

i think ill go home around 4, and then take the last of the sample tests from 6-9 then go to bed....

cell thawing

basically, i'm finished for the day. but i won't leave for another hour at least . . .
I THAWED MY CELLS! and got a really reasonable yield! (i counted 13.5 million cells going into the freezer and got back 9.94 million back - so, 73%) now, everything is safely in the incubator :)

i was so anxious doing that - my hands are still a little jittery :)

my turn for a 2 hour lunch :)

allen just took us all out for sushi...thats like a dream come true :) i tried soft shell crab rolls which were soooo good. and then i just got boring philadelphia rolls just in case i didnt like the crab i wanted one safe thing :)

ummmmm

thawing cells

i have to go thaw cells now. i'm nervous. ahhhh!

chipotle

add that to the list for next week jules!!! either wed or friday...would either of those days work for you for lunch?

allen is taking us out to lunch today...i think we need to discuss expanding the team... :)

will blog more when i get back

not purposely trying to make you jealous :) just answering the question....

sat starting at 5 pm: back massage, then dinner/drinking/passing out...
sunday - shopping (with all those coupons i emailed to you girls), then cosby thing at 7
monday - leave for ct at 8 am, reach at 10, shopping with mom, lunch with parents, electrolysis, going to see alexandr
tues - home
wed - avenue q
thurs - office xmas party
fri - ???
sat - devs office party and one of my indian friends's bday party


im becoming like miranda just like megans blog - not that dev comes home late but he goes to bed late, then wants to have sex and im waaaay too tired and my mind is waaay too preoccupied. then in the morning i want to get up and do stuff and cant just lay in bed all day doing nothing...i go crazy! there is so much to do here that i dont want to lay in bed all day!! plus he has never seen me like samantha, and he thinks charlotte is way too annoying...and im def not like carrie - im not sure what that means but i know im not like her :)

i cant deal with typing with one hand!! im gonna go to duane reede now and get a splint.... :(

refresh my memory

nush, what are your plans for this weekend/next week?

i know you'll be partying it up on saturday and hanging out here sunday (right?). after that, when are you going home and all?

and how are you becoming like miranda??

i def think you should take a cab home tonight. it's not every day you get pretty flowers!

and...another happiness...

i called this girl lisa that i was really good friends with in high school on monday cause i randomly remembered it was her bday...and she called me back today :) we are going to have lunch on tues when im at home....

i think im gonna see mike too....

maybe i am becoming megan...or mirandda...

thats precisely why dev thinks im like her :)

sandi lin sent me good luck flowers!!! she is sooo cute :) they are a dozen white roses and soooo pretty. i may have to take a cab home tonight so i can bring them home :)

miranda moment

you know the first round of her and steve? where he gets in at 2am, and she gets up early for her 9 to 5??? and he always wants to have sex, and she tries to stay awake but its just so late! ok, i FEEL HER PAIN! and then that saturday where he just wants to lay around in bed and she has stuff she wants to do - ohmygod. it's like my life right there on the small screen.

no doctor

i decided that all they will do is make me wait forever and then tell me to put it in a splint....so ill just keep doing that myself :)

who am i now that im not samantha??? dev said i was like miranda, but megan is so much more miranda than me that it doesnt fit....

rupa - where the heck are you???

sex & the city

i'll only play samantha if that means i get to date smith jared. he's so hot ;)

but nooooo, i'm not a slut! just cause the rest of you are practically married / working too much / studying doesn't mean that i get to be the resident slut. i only like kissing tons of guys, nothing else :)

nush, are you going to go to the doctor during work today? your poor pinkie :(

speaking of me not being a slut. . . do you guys remember dave and willy? 2 guys from miami that jackie and i met summer of last year, and then they came to visit us last year sometime in november? jacks hooked up with dave, i hooked up with willy...

well, they'd been pretty much MIA for the past year or so. willy emailed me yesterday out of nowhere, and then he IM'ed me this morning. dave called jackie out of the blue a few days ago. looks like dave wants to come to nyc, and he wants to stay in the julie and jackie hotel. he's coming next weekend, he told jackie he's bringing a friend. i hope him and his friend enjoy sleeping on our sofa bed :)

ok, time to keep fighting with the sprint people. i hope you all enjoy your days. nush, i hope your finger gets better!

:( poor nushie

i hope your finger doesn't hurt as much for the test :(
and we don't mind hearing about the studying - we all have our roles. you study constantly, julie has a different guy every weekend, rupa works and barely surfaces . . . and me. well, i live in rochester. i'm boring. :)

on a related note . . . does this mean we need to switch around roles? i'm feeling julie is playing the part of samantha lately . . . especially compared to the rest of us :)

broken finger :( or at least majorly hurting finger

yesterday on my way out the door i smashed my finger in the door :( and i think i may have broken my pinky...luckily on my left hand so sat still shouldnt be a problem except that i couldnt sleep all night and it is still throbbing....

i think i just need a stiff drink - jules thats your job for sat at 6 pm :)

tonight one more practice test and then you guys wont have to hear about all this studying until next may!! (a month before the next test....)

wake up girls

so, today i have to do an experiment i don't know how to do. and eun is a doctor today - not a research boss. i've done it twice, but not since september. so, i have to ask courtney and gen lots of questions and hope they have time for me :)

AND i have to thaw out cells that i froze. which i am very bad at . . . you are supposed to get 80 to 90% of the cells you froze, instead i get like 30%. so . . . we'll see. today might be a very disheartening day.

you should thank jackie

she's the one that's been in contact with them, so she's the one that told them not to come (although i fully agree with her!).

i'm bringing jackie to my holiday party. i still don't know what i'm wearing. i need to try on the red dress that mari lent me, but it looks like it might be a little big.. .

saturday night sounds like fun! we'll figure out a place to go . ..

ok, i wanna leave in like 20 mins so i should stop fooling around. . .

why isnt this working? and thanks for telling them not to come friday :)

yup friday night ill be there...im gonna leave work at 12, go home, study, then eat dinner with dev (not sure if he is staying over and promising no drama or leaving to ensure no drama :)) want to be in bed by 1030, will be up at 6 to shower, eat a big breakfast and be at the test center by 8....

will be done at 5, and will stop by the nail place on sull/spring to get a back massage before i come home :) so i should be home by 615...

i told jacks ill be sooo tired so no sleeping! that prob doesnt make sense to most people but im sure you girls understnad....so dinner then out :) ellen is going to manahatta at 11 for some party - free bottles etc, maybe thats an option? i told jackie i leave the "where we go for free drinks" part to you and her :)

i cant wait!!!!!

jules - are you taking jackie to your holiday party thing?

3 more nights :)

yup friday night ill be there...im gonna leave work at 12, go home, study, then eat dinner with dev (not sure if he is staying over and promising no drama or leaving to ensure no drama :)) want to be in bed by 1030, will be up at 6 to shower, eat a big breakfast and be at the test center by 8....

will be done at 5, and will stop by the nail place on sull/spring to get a back massage before i come home :) so i should be home by 615...

i told jacks ill be sooo tired so no sleeping! that prob doesnt make sense to most people but im sure you girls understnad....so dinner then out :) ellen is going to manahatta at 11 for some party - free bottles etc, maybe thats an option? i told jackie i leave the "where we go for free drinks" part to you and her :)

i cant wait!!!!!

jules - are you taking jackie to your holiday party thing?

food coma

i just had a 2.5 hour lunch with all the other assistants in SG (as a welcome lunch to 2 new people we hired). we went to ruby foos, a chinese fusion place. i had yummy passion fruit cosmos, but now i'm SLEEPY. and there's so much work to be done. fun fun.

nush, i can't believe you'll be FREE in a few days! friday night jackie and i are going to a party with all the hamptons people (rupa, i know you can barely contain yourself). 2 of the connecticut guys wanted to spend the night, but you'll be happy to know that jackie vetoed that so that you can get a full night's rest before your test. will you be at the apt friday night? i promise we won't have any people over :)

is saturday the night we're all having dinner? i read all the blogs yesterday to catch up, but now i'm confused and don't remember exactly what the weekend plans were. . .

i'm so looking forward to the weekend :)

next week :)

i am proud to say that i am busy every night next week already and with all fun stuff!! no more studying!! as a side note - i was studying my flashcards on the subway this morning, and the girl next to me was studying a book on sex positions - really studying it, like moving around and trying to figure out how her leg was supposed to go where it was drawn!! hahahah i was trying really hard to concentrate on my notes and not let my jaw drop to the ground :)

im up for alphie the week after that though :) or next weekend..

as for my secret santa person - that one $10 gift is all i got so far - i just saw it and loved it so i had to get it :) other than that im not sure what "all out" means or what the "norm" would/should be....

rupa - are you around this weekend? jules said your haircut looks good :)

i'm so happy other people are blogging!

i got lonely yesterday . .
but now i have to go play with blood.

alfie!

i've been wanting to see that. nush that's the movie with jude law ( i know.. one of 10 million) but it's the remake of this old movie about this man named alfie who is a womanizer. 12:30 does sound early to me too though for sunday.. we could go during the week next week? also i'd be up for polar express but this weekend is a lil busy.

i'm excited for this weekend... our company party is this weekend. it's at the reopened fao schwartz. which isn't as cool as the last time (where it was in the Met) but we'll get to play with toys and there's supposedly some erupting volcano made of ice cream! ha ha.. i can't wait. and of course.. there will be an after party on uncle d at tao- this place right near there (it's the one from SATC where there's a big buddha.. i think that's the one where big and carrie were fighting outside the bathroom?) i'm bringing ameya which will be good. we haven't really hung out in a long time :( so this is our catch up week (or a few days) of hanging out time.

i wish it weren't raining today.. it's so yucky out! i'm having lunch today with this guy who has been kinda like my mentor here and we're going to talk about what i can do next after i'm done with this super computer thing. i'm excited! i may finally get to do real business development here like i wanted instead of this random stuff that they just call "business development" to make someone do it. that was a confusing explanation but i'll write more after lunch.

by the way, how "all out" is everyone going with their secret santa gifts? i wasn't sure after nush mentioned she got her "first gift" like there are many!!! happy day, girls!

whats alfie?

i think 1230 is too early for me on sunday :) so we (or maybe just I and some other poor soul i can con into going with me) may just have to push it off to another weekend/day...

oh no, it's happening again!

no one's responding to me :(

polar express

what didn't you like??

oh yea

i saw polar express this weekend - we took jackie's little cousins. not on imax, just a regular movie theater. i didn't think it was that great. nush and rupa, i won't be seeing it with you this weekend.

but is anyone up for seeing alfie?? i really want to see it. jackie and mari said it was good. any takers?

guess who's back. . .

it's me! i was actually here yesterday, but had tons of stuff to catch up on so i didn't get to blog. i hope you missed me ;)

anyways, it's gross and rainy out (surprise, surprise). we had a couple of new people start in our department this week, so hopefully my work load will be a bit more bearable after they're all trained.

miami was great (like always). the weather was beautiful, i spent part of saturday and all day sunday out on my cousin's husband's friend's boat. it was awesome. on saturday we just rode around miami beach, then pulled up to a seafood restaurant called big fish (which was yummy and very expensive, but the owner of the boat, craig, is pretty well-off, so he treated us all) and had dinner. yea, the boat is right on the water. they have a dock, so you just pull your boat up to the restaurant and tie it up, and the waiters give you a hand and help you out. isn't that awesome??? then on sunday we left early and rode out to eliot key. it's a little island about 30-45 mins away from miami. it's really popular for people with boats, especially in the summer. there's a sandbar there, so people just anchor their boats and walk around and socialize and stuff. it was pretty empty since it's almost 'winter'. we just hung out there for a bit, the guys brought a grill so they made us yummy burgers and chicken for lunch while the girls laid around and listened to music. . .it was awesome :) i love hanging out with my cousin. she's the one i always hung out with when i went to colombia, but she moved to miami about a year ago. she's awesome.

ok, time to do some crappy work. whoooppeeeee!

i hope you all have a lovely day :)