house guests and presents

i think 2 bottles of alcohol would be good - grey goose and bombay sound like excellent choices. i really like it when house guests leave us presents, it's such a nice little bonus :)

i just got back from a candidate lunch and the snow's starting to come down pretty hard. . . blah!

joe's dad is really strict, so he's not too excited about the sleepovers (which is the reason he doesn't sleep over more frequently). joe's been wanting to move out for a while (a few months ago, there was the possibility that he and peter would be roommates. boy, would that have been weird), but he decided to stay at home for a little bit longer so he could have enough money to buy a house rather than just rent an apt. so yea, his dad gives him a really hard time about coming home really late and about sleeping over. . .

and nush, i guess you're right - i'm not spoiled, i like spoiling myself! the ipod shuffle is so tiny. i wish i had my computer here so i could load it up with music already.

urgh - i hate snow. . .

what to get julie koo

so - i was planning on buying her a nice bottle of alcohol to thank her for letting me and edgar stay there. does that seem good? and what kind? i was thinking bombay saphire? i can't remember if she's a bombay or a tangueray girl! and then ann hasn't moved out yet - so i'll be invading her space too . . . any idea what she drinks?! maybe i'll buy like a bottle of bombay and a bottle of grey goose and put them in a basket together or something like that . . . or two bottles of western ny wines? thoughts?

HAHAHAHAHA!

that's awesome :)
although i have also heard that we are supposed to get a foot. its snowed a little today, but just the usual on again off again not really accumulating kind.

are joe's parents ok with his frequent sleep overs?
why does he still live with his parents?

we are supposed to get more snow than rochester! that doesnt make sense!!

Rochester, New York: Snow developing mid to late Monday afternoon, continuing through the overnight, moderate to heavy at times, then diminishing to snow showers Tuesday morning. Snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches.

New York, New York: Snow developing early Monday afternoon, continuing through the overnight, heavy at times, then diminishing to snow showers around daybreak Tuesday. Snow may mix with rain or sleet at times Monday night. Snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches. Very windy Monday afternoon and evening.

you arent spoiled!!!

well joe is starting to spoil you, but you bought this on your own with your own hard earned money - that isnt being spoiled!

im excited to play with it too :) i really like my mini these days. i def wasnt using it enough when i first got it but now i use it all the time and i even update/change songs all the time. plus now i have tons of hindi music on it which i love to listen to when im working out.

urgh so many things to do and no time to do it...

woo-hoo!

i just got my ipod shuffle! i can't wait to go home and play with it :)

i'm so spoiled. . .

it keeps timing out on me...

i find that issue too when editing peoples things...do you have time to do it while you are at work today?

satyan send me cute emails all the time...geez this is bad....

g'morning ladies

meg, the lake house sounds like so much fun! seems like your weekend was more good than bad. . .

nush, i agree with megan: you need to stop satyan somehow before he becomes too attached so soon! it seems a bit like the problems jackie had with paul - he'd invite himself over all the time, and she'd have to tell him that he couldn't sleep over. it's not easy, but it's better if you do it now in the beginning. . .

i had a great weekend! friday night we went to a trendy, loungy sushi place with really yummy drinks to celebrate rupa's bday. the place was fun, the drinks were good and really strong. . .i had a fun night. it was a bunch of work people (all of our favorite co-workers), one of rupa's childhood friends with her boyfriend, anusha for a bit, and then joe met up with us later on in the night.

saturday i went shopping all day with jackie and anusha, although after walking around for most of the day, the only things i'd purchased were cushions for the couch and a shirt. sat night joe and i went to a spanish restaurant (where made me order everything), and then we went to stomp. we had good seats, and the show was good. it was pretty funny, too. we just went back to my place after - i was tired and it was cold out. . . he slept over (the 2nd time he's spent the night, the first time was that one drunken night). we watched a movie, fooled around for a bit, and went to sleep. sunday morning we laid around all morning just laughing about stupid stuff and cuddling. . .it was really nice. then we went to breakfast, and he offered to drive me to brooklyn to pick up julia (my lil buddy), even though it was like 1 hour out of his way. so we drove to brooklyn, he drove us back to my apt, and then he went home.

julia andi had so much fun! i bought play-dough saturday, so we played with that for a while. then we made brownies, got some pizza, and watched aladdin. it was a pretty low-key play date, but i think she had fun. by the time i got home after dropping her off at like 8:30 last night i was soo exhausted (i didn't get much sleep saturday night. . .). so i just showered, watched the oscars, and went to bed. i had such a fun weekend :) i'm going to see joe again on thursday - we're going to the nets/heat game with jackie +1. we'll probably get something to eat first, and he's sleeping over that night. then friday i go to boston, and he leaves for his cruise on sunday.

i'm so tired now. i really should try to get more sleep on the weekends . . .

g'morning ladies

meg, the lake house sounds like so much fun! seems like your weekend was more good than bad. . .

nush, i agree with megan: you need to stop satyan somehow before he becomes too attached so soon! it seems a bit like the problems jackie had with paul - he'd invite himself over all the time, and she'd have to tell him that he couldn't sleep over. it's not easy, but it's better if you do it now in the beginning. . .

i had a great weekend! friday night we went to a trendy, loungy sushi place with really yummy drinks to celebrate rupa's bday. the place was fun, the drinks were good and really strong. . .i had a fun night. it was a bunch of work people (all of our favorite co-workers), one of rupa's childhood friends with her boyfriend, anusha for a bit, and then joe met up with us later on in the night.

saturday i went shopping all day with jackie and anusha, although after walking around for most of the day, the only things i'd purchased were cushions for the couch and a shirt. sat night joe and i went to a spanish restaurant (where made me order everything), and then we went to stomp. we had good seats, and the show was good. it was pretty funny, too. we just went back to my place after - i was tired and it was cold out. . . he slept over (the 2nd time he's spent the night, the first time was that one drunken night). we watched a movie, fooled around for a bit, and went to sleep. sunday morning we laid around all morning just laughing about stupid stuff and cuddling. . .it was really nice. then we went to breakfast, and he offered to drive me to brooklyn to pick up julia (my lil buddy), even though it was like 1 hour out of his way. so we drove to brooklyn, he drove us back to my apt, and then he went home.

julia andi had so much fun! i bought play-dough saturday, so we played with that for a while. then we made brownies, got some pizza, and watched aladdin. it was a pretty low-key play date, but i think she had fun. by the time i got home after dropping her off at like 8:30 last night i was soo exhausted (i didn't get much sleep saturday night. . .). so i just showered, watched the oscars, and went to bed. i had such a fun weekend :) i'm going to see joe again on thursday - we're going to the nets/heat game with jackie +1. we'll probably get something to eat first, and he's sleeping over that night. then friday i go to boston, and he leaves for his cruise on sunday.

i'm so tired now. i really should try to get more sleep on the weekends . . .

lake house

your lake house trips sound like so much fun! i always wished i could do that at our lake but our water and everything gets shut off from labor day or so until may...

i think im going to make more use of it this summer...

i cant wait for boston this weekend. i totally need to get out of ny!!!!!

i may go see million dollar baby with ellen tonight. i know i need to study and stuff but i really want to see it...

random and unrelated

ok, i know everyone is at monday meetings - jess emailed me her essay that she is writing to be post marked tomorrow. ok, the idea is fine. the writing is not so good. its all written how she speaks! i don't even know how to go about editting it!

ok, i just wanted to share :)

bad then good then bad

my weekend was great! as long as i put on blinders and ignore the annoying stuff :)

friday - as always, didn't do much of anything . . . i forgot my cell phone at home friday morning so i usually call edgar when i leave work, but i didn't because 1. i didn't have the phone and 2. when i got home, it was 6ish and i knew he'd be at work. at like 8:30 i got a call from him and he was like you're still there?! i think its cute that it worried him enough that i didn't call - even though there are a ton of potential explanation - that he took a break at work to check in on me :)

saturday - oil change, hanging out, and i managed to watch all three of my netflix movies (including i heart huckabees - which i really liked!) then, after edgar got out of work, we were supposed to go to my lake house. edgar's car is a piece of crap. its 10 years old with a bunch of miles and his whole plan with it right now was to drive it until it dies. he did - potentially prematurely because the oil light had been coming on a lot lately (which i would point at and go isn't that bad?) and he continually put off adding oil. anyway, i get a call to say he's leaving work. then, like 10 minutes later i get another call - his car died on the highway. so, i went and picked him up. we went to my apartment and he found a tow company to pick it up and hold it at there lot until he could deal with it today. (that is the first bad)

then, we got to my lake house. there was tons of snow, but luckily someone (i guess the neighbor) had snow blown a path from the road to the door. so, we got in - i set of the alarm but i knew the pass code so it was ok. we played a game of ping pong and went to bed (although that sounds lame - keep in mind, we didn't arrive at the house until 1:30am)

sunday morning, we woke up with tons of sunshine coming through the window. we got up and ate some cereal for breakfast (i had brought some food so we wouldn't have to leave to eat) and we spent the rest of the day playing darts, ping pong, cards, napping, and christening couches :) it was AWESOME! we don't get a whole lotta "down" time any more - since we can't be in the apartment if jess is there, its hard to schedule decent chunks of relax and have sex moments. this day was def needed. then, when it was getting close to time to leave, i was like ooh . . . i wish we could just stay here another night . . . he was like why don't we? its about an hour and a half from rochester - so it would be leaving really early in the morning to get me to work today so i pointed that out, he was like i don't care. i had also promised jess i would read and edit a personal essay for nursing school that she needs for tomorrow (her life plans got screwed up last week, so now she's rushing to finish an application to a school she didn't think she would be going to) that moment is the second bad. he got in a mood that i could get him out of. we packed up and cleaned up and drove home after that - basically in silence. he wasn't mad at me and agreed that it didn't spoil the good parts of the day but . . .

then i went home, watched the oscars - jess wasn't ready for me to read the essay because she had done two doubles in a row and hadn't had time but if i dwell on that too long - i'll just get all upset. so . . . i basically won't see edgar until we leave on thursday for boston. jess leaves thursday morning for colorado. why are relationships so stressful??

and anusha - i don't know how you do it, but you better cut satyan off quick!

weekend

i find it amusing that almost every year i havent seen any of the movies up for best picture...

my weekend was interesting...friday night satyan slept over, sat night dev slept over, sun night satyan again....

i know i know...dev should not have slept over, but i was pretty tipsy when i got home sat night and he called and was outside - apparently he was at a bar with his friends near the apt, not sure why/etc cause i was too drunk to ask those questions...he came up and i think i passed out pretty soon after that. when we woke up i told him that even for me it was nice to have him there and it feels comfortable to be with him but thats not what i want in arelationship, i dont want to stay with him cause it is comfortable, i want to be happy and i want to figure thigns out...

anyway, he said ok, wasnt fighting or showing that he was sad or anything, he left at 1030 when i woke up to study...

then last night satyan came over for dinner/to watch the oscars. it was fun...but he stayed the night again! i totally didnt want that! at 1130 when the oscars were over he did the same "so should we go to bed" thing that he did on friday night and i was like no you should go home, we both have to get up early for work...and he was like no id rather just get up at 6 and go home then i want to stay...it was awk and i felt bad so he stayed...and left at 6....he def is getting too attached and im totally not! so i told him that also, i was like i like hanging out with you i just dont want to get into a routine of seeing you every day and spending the night with you like this...i need/want time tomyself...he seemed to listen but then when i told him i was going to boston for the whole weekend he def had this "youre going the whole weekend so i want see you" look....he will be in FL next week for conferences that a bunch of people on my team are going to also. i think he was bummed that he wouldnt see me for like a week. how do i get myself in these predicaments???

ok, time to get to work...i need to leave early to get some work done tonight...

the bus on friday sounds fun :) the earliest i could get on one would be around 530 or 6...traffic will suck but we should prob be there by 10...

good morning!

how are we all today? any oscar comments/surprises? i was SO happy to see charlie kaufman win :) that's about it.. the others i had no comments on.. although i thought chris rock was super funny :)

my weekend was great. friday i got a lil too drunk with birthday festivities but did manage to get a tall black man that i no longer remember to buy us all champagne :) saturday i basically slept all day.. sunday i did work, cooked, and watched the oscars. so much rest!! i can't believe it :)

i no longer have to go to boston for work this weekend so i think i'm just gonna go friday with all of you :)

updates all around.. can't wait to hear about all your weekends...

my mom

no no it isnt that she wouldnt want me to go - it was more of a if im going to spend the weekend with a boy shed have issues...

either way ill decide on monday and let you know then...

megan have a good weekend! jules and rupa see you soon!

oops

i mean you should say something if you dropped hints...

you should GO regardless :)

good idea :)

i definitely think you should go. the plane rides will be fine concentrated time where you have to study... and then when you are there you can get a real break from everything here.

i think if you've already dropped hints, then you should just go. the most your mom will do will be to tell you that she thought it was a bad idea.. but it'll be over.. and she'll hear how happy you are when you get back and see that it was a good idea.

your plan of figuring out monday sounds great :)

jules and i just took a work break... to express. :) it was awesome..

:)

my newest thought is "is 400 better spent on a flight or on a new purse for me"....

but either way, i mentioned it to my mom saying that patty had to be there so i may go for the weekend, (a little white lie....) and her response was whatever i think you should study but you know best...

im going to think about it over the weekend, see how tonight with satyan goes, see if i interact with dev at all over the weekend, see toral etc tomorrow, and then decide on monday...

to tell vs not to tell

you really think your parents would say? do you feel that they still have that much control over your day to day life? my parents were def not impressed by my last second mention of my freshman trip to mardi gras - but i keep them up to date now. its your money you are spending, the government no longer lets them have control over you . . i mean, i guess they do have the power of guilt - but they would really exert it over a trip to london?

if that answer is yes - then i say go and not tell them :) if its no, then go and tell them :) either way - GO!

to tell vs not to tell

you really think your parents would say? do you feel that they still have that much control over your day to day life? my parents were def not impressed by my last second mention of my freshman trip to mardi gras - but i keep them up to date now. its your money you are spending, the government no longer lets them have control over you . . i mean, i guess they do have the power of guilt - but they would really exert it over a trip to london?

if that answer is yes - then i say go and not tell them :) if its no, then go and tell them :) either way - GO!

go go go

if you can't be crazy when you're 24 and have no commitments or responsibilities that tie you down (a.k.a. kids), then when will you get a chance to be crazy???


i think you should go. i don't think you should tell your parents, although that is totally up to you. . .

don't say poor dev. poor you for putting up with so much with dev before! i like the new, free, single anusha :)

ok maybe not bad but now im crazy

i think i may go to london next weekend (the one after boston...) 440, once i get there all expenses paid by torals cousin :) id get to eat at my fav restuarant (megan remember that case study i had to do for that consulting interview that jessie helped us with??) and just get away from NY...

the biggest question is do i tell/ask my parents, or just pretend that it isnt happening and just go...

arent these blogs of mine way more fun to read than the ones from the last 6 months!!!!!!! but i still feel the need to write poor dev...

yay!

nush is making the big bucks :)

nush, congrats on getting over your first day after the breakup! you are definitely not a bad person! i'm excited you're hanging out with satyan tonight :) jackie called me earlier today - she isn't feeling too well, so she doesn't know if she's going to be able to join us for rupa's bday (although she really really wants to).

i got an email from apple today - they finally shipped my ipod shuffle! i can't wait to get my new toy next week :)

i'm finding it so hard to focus on work now-a-days. . .

woo hoo!!! 332.79

thats how much money I made in my investment in our fund since march. i put in 10,000 last march and have been in the red since i put it in...and in december our fund was up 4% and i made it all back and 332.79 more! although i think i gave back some of that in jan...but its ok, im happy for now!

confused

its not that i dont want to get involved with him cause i think i really like him...and a kiss may be ok, and cuddling is definitely ok...

but i think the whole thing may weird me out a lot...

what if he tries to kiss you?

are you 100% against getting involved with satyan?

indian food and bad people part 2

saffron: cause the food is pretty bad from the few times i went there...i couldnt willingly subject you guys to that! i dont think julies taste buds evolved to handle my taste until at least sophomore or junior year...

maybe you are the bad person and not me! i still feel bad though...i think the day after a break up is the hardest, and i survived it. i still get excited when satyan calls (megan - we discussed the pronunciation of his name yesterday and what i wrote was wrong i guess, its not a long a, its like the first a in my name, and the t is more like a th like in jyoti. basically it sounds just like its spelled like all indian names! except ameya - i still remember thinking rupa was taking me to some big hot black guys apt the first time we went there...ameya is farrrrrr from that!)

anyway, i couldnt hang out with satyan yesterday cause he had a friend staying over with him, but he called when he got home and left me a cute message. and he already called this morning :) im gonna meet up with him after dinner tonight. i suggested going out, he suggested going home and watching wimbledon since i bought it yesterday...honestly im a little scared to go home...i know that if i tell him i just want to be by myself and i definitely like hanging out with him i just need time he will respect that...anyway just a little aprehensive, im sure as soon as he is there though i wont feel any of that cause its always so comfortable...

indian food and bad people

nushie - you are NOT a bad person. a bad person would have put it off even longer - potentially fooled around with satyan and wouldn't have guilt. dev needs to take personal responsibility for his "illness" and not try to drag you back in with guilt. ok, so he hasn't eaten - umm, i've met him, he can last a couple of days without food and not die. the 102 degree fever? CALL A DOCTOR! if he thinks love is going to cure a real illness, then he's on crack. and if love can cure whatever he's got, then its a disease of the mind and if he weren't being a stupid dick and trying to play up the love sick puppy theme, he'd be fine! yeah, its hard - but i'm sorry, you guys didn't have a romance worth dying over.

phew.

my mom sent me a citysearch link of top ten must see/do things in boston (it was sort of stupid - mostly places to eat . . .and anna's wasn't on the list) so i played on the website for a second and under cheap things to do in boston, they said that saffron has a bunch of half priced menu items between 3 and 5 on weekdays - how come we didn't know this when we lived there??

oh yea

you make the ñ by holding down the alt key, then hitting the numbers 1 6 4 in the numeric pad (the things you learn when you're hispanic)

we did tie a blindfold around her face. the funny part is that we taped a picture of jonathan winer on the piñata, and she kept hitting his face the whole time! she got a couple of good hits in, but was unable to break it.. .

ok, time to go.

soooo much fun!

rupa's bday was great! now i'm sitting at my desk, though, and i think i might have had a bit too much wine. you're not supposed to feel tipsy when you're doing work, are you?? oh well, at least i'm going home now :)

or not home - i'm going to a bar with rupa and nush and a few work people. then to satyan's show. then home to sleep. ah, i love my life sometimes :)

not my new boy!

just someone who makes me laugh and forget how horrible i am...

dev hasnt eaten since lunch yesterday :( he just emailed me. he has a 102 fever :( i just want to see him but im not going to. i havent even responded to the email yet...luckily im leaving soon to meet jules...

yeah birthday celebrations!

are you really going to tie a blindfold around rupa's eyes and make her swing at the pinata? and how do you make the squiggle on top of the n?

as for lucifer - lucifer is the devil or satan . . . satan, satyan - i didn't know where to put the emphasis so that your new boy wasn't the devil :)

anusha shah

nope, doesn't work. sorry, nush. i guess he'll be a good rebound guy, though ;)

meg, we did miss you all morning! i've been busy running around a bit today. finally went to helga. then this morning i had to do a bit of party planning. we were planning a surprise celebration for rupa's bday, but i ruined the surprise by accidentally inviting the birthday girl (oops). anyways, it's going to be fun! we got her a piñata, wine, cheese, fruit, and crackers. festivities start at 4, and i'll be leaving work around 5ish. i'm exhausted from waking up to go to the gym this morning. i can't wait to go to bed!

megan, i miss having you in the same city. i can't wait to see you next week!

more calm now...i think....

he didnt take it well...he fluctuates from saying things like but i love you so much and did everything and gave you all i have etc etc, to being angry and saying that maybe my silver lined perfect life shouldnt have someone like him in it anyway...i dont think the fun of being single will kick in for some time, although im doing a pretty good job filling it up...

i did tell satyan (saatyan- long a like the first a in my name - does that help? i dont know what the lucifer reference is too... but we cant get our hopes up with him - his last name is shah :) megan, remember the issues with that at tech callers?? he called me when i was at devs, so i called him when i got home and just sorta slipped it in part of why my day was so crappy, he was just kinda like wow really etc etc and before the conversation was done was asking when we could hang out - so my fear of him being weirded out since i broke up with him so soon after our evening monday wasnt as bad as i thought...

and as for dev - he called twice at midnight, the second time for which i woke up but didnt answer, then a text that said "im outside please call me" i called him, went to my window and he was standing there :( he came inside, we sat and talked on the counch for about an hour...it was so sad. it hurts so much...i want to be more of an optimistic person but now i surprisingly have to force myself to remember how things really were bad...i miss just having him hold me and tell me that when he sees me half asleep at midnight is when he thinks im the most beautiful and how he cant be without me...buti was strong and hugged him and cried to him and then i asked him to leave...he basically just said you know where to find me and ill be waiting...

ok i need to stop writing. i cant cry anymore at work.

we have a meeting at 3, then im leaving at 5 to meet julie and go hang out with jackies work people then to satyans show at 7...

did you miss me?

internet wasn't working before lab meeting and now is the first time i've been sitting at my desk today (which, even though i love you guys, i'm a big fan of) there was lab meeting and then talks with eun and then lunch and a walk to pic's place (the convenience store in the building)

now, my skittles are spread out in front of me, grouped by colors (i just finished the yellow, next i'll do orange then purple then red then green - in order from least to most favorite)

anusha - good for you! how did he take it? has he tried calling? do you think he will try calling? you are going to enjoy having enough time to yourself to study and go to the gym and relax - you'll be long since over him before the appeal of that runs out. are you going to tell satyan (which - can someone spell that out phonetically - 'cause right now it seems an awful lot like anusha's flirting with the lucifer himself) are you going to have a i'm single but i like it that way kind of talk? maybe we can hook you up with a skeevy bald guy at sophia's :)

jules - you can't welcome someone to a place you aren't at - so no welcoming anusha to the single life :)

rups - are you feeling a little better now? ready celebrate? my mom pointed out that king wasn't on the website to me today too - i think that means he was adopted! which actually makes me really happy - he's young and friendly enough that he's going to be a really good family pet :)

ok - i'm down to the red skittles (i had already eaten part of the bag before i started writing) i think that means its time to do some work! i heart huckabees should be in my mailbox today so i have exciting plans tonight :)

tonight

you are a freak, nush, that's why we all love you :)

that's cool that tejal is also coming. as soon as i hear from jackie i'll let you know. this weekend i want to spoil myself be getting a manicure, going tanning, and doing some shopping. i can't wait :)

i also want to try to go to the gym tomorrow morning, so hopefully we won't be out too late tonight. . .

ok, back to work. nushie poo, welcome to the single life again. things will get easier. . .and i definitely think you made the right choice.

plans

tonight: jules, let me know when you find out from jackie where shell be.. the show starts at 7, so we should prob get there around 645 or so. tejal and her boyfriend are coming too - how weird! satyan is goign to think im a freak that all my friends are coming with me...oh well :)

tomorrow: rups i emailed ellen, im sure shell say yes, and we will meet you at inoteca around 8...ill let you know about the facial later today, i think to spoil myself i just want to get my nails done tomorrow and go shopping sat...but ill let you know :)

i cant wait for boston!!!!!!!!!!!

so proud of you!

chica! i know it feels awful and you feel this big (cm between thumb and finger) but you should feel THIS BIG (feet between two hands outstretched). ok a lil smaller and skinnier than that.. but still. what you did took guts. we are really proud of you :)

i know it feels awful now, but it'll get better, and you will feel better. in the end, this is a good thing for both of you. you are both amazing people, just not for each other.. and there's an amazing boy waiting for you out there somewhere that you can finally now meet :)

i love ya!

i did it....

i feel about this big (about a cm between my thumb and index finger) and i think im still in shell shock....

:-D

i already asked joe about friday and he said he could definitely handle hanging out with me both friday and saturday nights, so looks like he'll be joining us :)

rups, i'm really glad we hung out, too, that totally cheered me up. nush - just tell satyan you have to go because you need to study or go to the gym with your roommate or something. i know lying sucks, but the sooner you break up with dev, the sooner you can stop lying. . .

i don't mind being in nyc for the weekends. don't get me wrong, i'd be much happier if it were like 30 degrees warmer and sunny out, but it's kind of nice to have the weekends to myself and not have any other commitments.

hi :)

thanks jules :) i checked with pia who still can't make saturday :( so friday it is still.. nush- any way you could bring ellen to dinner with us? and jules, you should bring joe. there won't be a peter for miles :) maybe we could do tony's show saturday before you go to your show? i'm glad we had lunch/coffee. that put me in a much better mood :)

by the way, jules is glowing nowadays. i mean she's always happy :) but now she glows when you ask her about joe.

nush good luck with dev tonight!

megan- did you disappear? i can't find the picture of king anymore online.. i was just trying to look...

im still seeing dev

he gets in at 7, but i realllly want to see satyan, i just dont want to have to say at 630 listen i gotta go hang out with my boyfriend the rest of the night...that just seems convoluted...

jules if i dont come home tonight, im skipping the gym tomorrow - and you can just let me know tomorrow where/when we are meeting jackie and the work people. satyans show is at 7 around 34th i think...rupa, can you come??

i cant wait for boston...i think another reason im not so excited about weekends is that ive been in NY for too many consecutive ones - ok just two, but this one will be three! thats way too much...

nooooooooo

i was looking forward to going to the waxing place i love in miami, but since my whole trip didn't work out, i need to go to helga asap. i usually go every 3-4 weeks, regardless of whether or not i'm seeing anybody ;)

nush, are you still hanging out with dev later on tonight? and cheer up dear, the day is almost over!

i just talked to joe. . .he's such a cutie. rups, we're going to the late show on saturday, so it's at 10:30. i'll be free for dinner before that if you'd like. i'm so sleepy. i don't know how this is possible, i actually got like 8 hours of sleep last night!

urrgggh

so when i told allen he was like i know you are too smart for this but can you just do it. so i said sure, i mean how hard is it really to submit like 2 invoices maybe a month and make sure it gets paid? and id def have more incentive to make sure its done cause when things arent paid i get shit for it.

anyway i went over to her and was like ok just show me what site to do and how you enter this stuff and ill do it...she was like no dont worrya bout it i will. and i was like i have to worry about it cause things arent getting paid and this has happened way too much...anyway she was like ill come over and show you in a bit - NOPE she def went to allen to talk to him about it. jesus. anyway the solution is she is doing it and allen will submit things to larry directly to make sure it gets paid. after i left his office i felt like shit cause i hate complaining and i hate making him have more work, which is exactly what it all ended up being - but its ok, he just called me and was like she was pissed but this isnt rocket science...urgh the only comforting thing is knowing he is on my side! its like she doesnt want to do the work right but she also doesnt want me to do it right for her...

and she is my friend! :(

big plans for sat night jules?

hence the rush for helga? :)

i prob know them just dont know the name...

my head is spinning, i think after work im going to call satyan and see if he wants to meet for a drink. there is no way i can study after a day like this anyway...

you don't know who maroon 5 is?

they're playing on my ipod all the time. . . remember that song, "she will be loved", that i played every day for a while?

yea, working with friends can be tricky. it sucks that she takes advantage of the fact that you guys are friends so she isn't "afraid" of you.

i just had a really nice long coffee/lunch break with rupa (coffee for me, lunch for her). i tried going to helga's but she was out on her lunch break, so i guess i'm going to try going tomorrow for sure. i need to stop postponing it!

meg - going to your grandparents' lakehouse sounds nice. i hope it works out! i can't believe you guys don't look forward to weekends like i do. makes me think there might be something wrong with me. . .

urgh

i think i found my new pet peeve. being friends with people at work. cause it makes you feel bad when they totally mess something up and you feel like you have to always cover their butt but really they are just totally irresponsible and need to learn. im sure i do stuff like that too but im getting fed up. this is like the 10th time that ive submitted an invoice for payment of a subscription to natasha and she tells me its all done so i stop bugging her about it (i think thats intentioanl which pisses me off even more) and then a month later when i follow up with the company to make sure everything went ok and ask why i cant access something they are like "anusha you never paid us". i frieking hate it. with a passion. so i asked her, she goes, oh larry didnt approve it ill have to submit it again. BfingS. so i gave in and just went to allen about it. i was like remember we talked about such and such 2 months ago, well it hasnt been paid. urgh. i hate having to complain about someone adn really if i could do it myself i would but she also wont show me how to submit those for approval!

luckily allen had a few drinks at lunch so he is a little tipsy and def ready to go home...im gonna get out of here early...

research people get screwed

no bonus. no overtime (i count my hours and leave early days to compensate for when i work late and weekends). i don't even think a good review results in potential raise. i'm paid off of a grant (i don't know which one) so there is a semi-fixed budget - the less is spent on me, the more research can be done to a certain extent. sooo there isn't a whole lotta room for giving me extra cash :) eun just needs to get her grant approved (won't know until july-ish) and maybe then i can move up in the ranks :)

awwww

that picture is so cute! where did it come from?

what is maroon 5? i prob wont come...i need to cut back on the social events...

i think dev pittied himself when i made the miranda steve comment, i think he thinks im too pessimistic...

i second megans comment - weekends arent that fun for me anymore - whatever fun i have is offset by the guilt of not studying in order to have that fun...(i think thats one of devs biggest complaints about me) but dont worry, i already get totally fired up when i think about my bday this year since its the weekend after the exam :)

good luck with your self assessment! do research people get bonus etc when you do these things? i have to work on my goals for 2005 which then decides my bonus next year....i think its due next week :(

weekends

frankly, weekends are no longer that fun for me. friday nights are worthless - sometimes jess isn't working but mostly its a week night alone. saturdays - i spend the day time with edgar - so i don't want to waste it, so not much sleeping in. then he leaves at 4ish to go to work and i get lathargic by the end of the night. the last couple of sundays i've had to work - so that makes those less than exciting. really - i think if i concentrated too long on my day to day life i'd become a little depressed. as long as i don't have to work this sunday, edgar and i *might* start a new tradition that will make me very very happy. we might go to my grandparent's lake house after he's done with work saturday night, spend the night there and hang out at the house all day sunday. even if the weather is bad, the house is isolated and peaceful and we've recently added a dvd player. we can make breakfast and be lazy together without any of the usual pressures. wow. i'm practically drooling about it just thinking of it.

oh - and i got a form to fill out today for my "anual self-assessment" - my 6 month review. AHHHH!

pic

nush - no post it note, although that is one of my favorite sex and the city episodes. i agree with everything that megan and rupa said. it's never going to be easy, sweetie, so i think the more you keep putting it off, the more you'll torture yourself thinking about it. i know, i know, easier said than done. . .what did dev say when you said your relationship is like miranda and steve's?

meg, i'm glad your blizzard is over.

i'm all up for annas and all the other boston fun things you guys want to do. sophia's sounds good, too.

nush and rupa: jackie said she'd go with me to tony's show on friday. it's at 8pm on the upper west side (i think 86th street). nush, if dinner with ellen falls through you should come. maroon 5 is coming to radio city april 6-8. jackie and i are going to try to get tickets - they're only $35-$45. would either of you be interested in going?

it's already wednesday! and tomorrow after work we're having drinks with jackie's work people, then we're going to satyan's show. then the weekend is here :) all i can ever think about is weekends. . . do you guys do that also?

i think hed know

weve been watching a lot of the miranda steve episodes where they fight all the time and break up and i keep saying how that is like us (not that it makes me look good cause she is basically crazy during those times, but it does remind me of us...) i think he has seen the post it one but thats too mean...

ive been trying to write everythign that im thinking - that was how ellen broke up with liam too. i just cant articulate everything, but im trying. i think when that letter is done is when ill be ready to have this talk with him...

rupa, what pic did pia send? i think i missed that part...

three line post it

would he get the humor in it? if so . . . no, no - too cruel. but really funny :)

at least the spy took the hint. haha! we scared him away!

no spies

no more spies... i've been checking.. and no one has looked at the site except us. the funny thing though is that the person who was using "the-cloak" stopped the same day we moved it.. which means they were probably reading our blogs about how we would catch them. i even put up a funny message for them but they haven't seen it yet :)

nush- if it's easier to be strong in writing or something.. then i would do that.. maybe not a three-line post-it :) but something where you can say the things that you'd like to and seeing him in person or having him say something that convinces you won't happen. if anything, i agree with megan that it'll be easier once he's done something annoying again.

ameya's good. he emailed me to say happy birthday and i finally talked to him later in the night. he's doing well. he found an apt finally.. and he seems to be happy. that pic pia sent made me miss him again too :)

weather update

don't worry, the blizzard stopped. back to sunny skies.

*shake fist* at rochester weather!

any word on the spy?

no one is spying on us here, yet, right?

the problem is my lack of strength....

if only he were the spy :) then it would all be easy for me!

rupa, any word on ameya?

'amazing guy but not for me'

sounds like a good enough break up line to me.
to the point without being mean . . . you think hallmark makes a card?

CRAZY!

there's an ana's in the student center??? the MIT STUDENT CENTER?! OH! i'm sooo hitting that up :)

as for the sophia's thing - i was thinking about suggesting it :) it turns out my boyfriend really likes dancing :) which i guess i knew already - but it was so cute seeing him at the wedding, getting really into it. but really, its boston! i don't want to make too definite of plans, because i want to just do whatever it is that strikes my fancy at that moment :) as long as i go to the MIT coop at some point (probably friday) and buy a sweatshirt, a replacement mug, and a car sticker with something about being an alum on it.

crazy. when i got up this morning, it was nothing but sunny blue skies. when i got to work - same thing. 15 minutes ago - still sunny blue skies! now, a mini blizzard. rochester weather makes me very very angry.

welcome back rups :)

i cant come on friday, im meeting up with ellen...so ill celebrate your bday next weekend in boston! annas sounds sooo good, i cant believe there is one in the student center!

:( megan thats a harsh reality "the good moments dont last that long anymore..."

i know...i also dont want anything with satyan now, although my heart races whenever i get an email from him or when he calls me at night to say goodnight....but either way, next time i hang out with him im going to tell him i just need time to be by myself...

as for dev, we are meeting tonight after he gets back from the airport. i think ill postpone all this talk till this weekend...urgh. it is hard to get out of something - ive done it before - a lot - and ive always used a good excuse - ie not telling the real truth. like mike - he doesnt know that i broke up with him becuase he isnt ambitious or motivated enough for me - he thinks i broke up with him cause i was going to college...but in the end, who cares - i care a lot about dev, i dont want this to be a bashing session of you did this and you do that and i dont like this - cause i think he is a really amazing guy - just not for me....

it shouldn't be so hard!

i think its a cruel twist that its so hard to get out of relationships once you are in them . . . this whole "oh, i don't want to hurt his feelings" and still have residual feelings for the person . . . what, you are supposed to hate the guy in order for breaking up to be possible?

and as for the breaking up after the bad weekend instead of the good - don't worry, i bet as soon as you tell him you don't want him to go to boston - there will be some kind of argument and you'll be ready again :) or else SOMETHING will happen to make him annoy you again - that is the reason you are breaking up, the good moments don't last that long any more . . .

good morning!

hi girls! i am back.. i feel like i have missed over a week of blogging.. first my busy week b/c of my trip.. then my trip.. and then my being sick b/c of my trip :) but now i'm back and here.. still sick, but a lot better than yesterday.

anusha- you need to break up with dev right away! i know it's going to be ugly and it's not that things are all bad, but this is the surest i've ever seen you. especially if you are this excited about satyan :) it's time to let dev go. also, i wouldn't tell him it's because you like satyan.. it really isn't. satyan did come along while you are still with dev, but if you are open to meeting someone else, then the real breakup is because of all the reasons that we have talked about of why you shouldn't be with dev. i think if you tell him it's b/c there's someone else, he's never gonna know the real reasons as to why, and he'll be more hurt thinking that it could have been perfect otherwise, there was just "some guy".that's what i think you should do. and i think it's only fair that you end things SOON before any more cuteness happens with satyan :)

megan- i'm really excited to see you!! the weekend should be really fun. it'll be fun to do touristy things and see all the boston peeps. my sister will be around for some of the weekend but is on call saturday night. i may hang out during the day and then try to eat dinner with her near the hospital so that she gets a break :) maybe if we all eat in fenway somewhere, she can come too. friday and saturday during the day i am totally free. basically the rest of the weekend i am free. i do want to go to sophia's one night.. they now have tapas that are really really good. and i want to go to anna's at some point. there's an anna's in the student center now. i don't have any other real plans :) we don't have to celebrate my bday yet another weekend :) although i don't mind calling it that.

i'm gonna get a group together this weekend (probably friday so jules can come) to have dinner for my bday. nush/jules, i'll let you know about places. i think i wanna go to inoteca.

my actual bday was super fun. the wedding was absolutely the most beautiful one i have ever been to. my pics are still uploading but i'll send you a link once they are up. priya and salil are really the cutest couple i have ever seen :) and it was nice to be at a wedding that was more about their being in love than about just the festivities. it was a perfect way to spend my bday :)

blah.. i'm feeling more blah now.. it's mostly my head. i may leave early today too.. although i have lots of catching up to do.

smile back on :)

i called him :) he was at mercury lounge already doing a mic check...he told me where it is (houston and A at 9pm) i think if i go home, get some work done, i may just hop in a cab and go...we shall see, im going to leave work early today to see if i can do that...

apparently he did email me back, my computer is just messed up and i didnt get it...at least he emailed :) (dont worry i wasnt psychopathic and ask him why he didnt respond or anything, he said something to the effect of no comment on my email? and i told him i didnt get it...)

uuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh i should have just ended it last week when i had the chance.....

he has no ticket.

therefore tomorrow night when we talk im goign to tell him not to come to boston. but its so hard to break up with him after a fun weekend!! do i just tell him i like satyan....

plus, fyi, satyan may be bald in like 5 years, but its ok cause he makes me laugh and i think he is super adorable....and julie agrees :)

tonight - cancelling plans to study and sleep :) that is bad!! but i may still go...we had a talk about dev last weekend (not sure if i blogged about it) but satyan and i went to a museum and wandered around ny last weekend. it was super fun. and in that walk he asked about dev (they met once) and i gave my usual not so excited but still dating response...not sure what was going through his head last night when we were cuddly....

no no no

jessie and evy have never ever ever ever dated. they're like sisters - they've never been attracted to each other. it's a common misconception people have when they find out that jessie and evy have been friends for so long and that they're both gay. . .but nope, no romance between them. and back then, evy was still straight. i don't think she started experimenting with girls until like the summer after our sophomore year or so.

nush, i agree with megan: call satyan and go see him! and i think you should leave dev at home - you don't want to have to baby sit all weekend!

carebear online

sort of yeah but mostly no.
i think i've talked to him twice in the last 6 months - mostly random friday or saturday nights that i go online to do something and he ims me. i don't know how much he gets out in philly . . . and generally the convos have been really boring. mostly "hey how are you" "good you" "good" . . . . long pause . . . . more pointless small talk. while he was a convenient way to dispose of my virginity, i don't think he'll have much further impact on my life.

dev is going to boston?!

aren't you supposed to be breaking up with him? but you guys are taking the bus, so its not like he's bought a nonrefundable ticket or anything . . . right?

all those ideas for boston sound great :) i think we are going to go thursday night - so we'll have a jump start on touristy stuff :) friday, i thought we could walk around MIT - the museum and stuff. i know i'm not going to get bored of wandering around boston - even though my *big* plans include walking down newbury and around the commons in march (i checked, duck tours don't start until april)

i know one night cara is having a party i want to stop in to - but i don't know how long i'll want to stay. she lives with a bunch of kappa sigs - who i got the impression are big on hosting this type of shindig. i don't know, as much as i adore cara - i kind of feel nauseous at the mere thought of a kappa sig party - even though i'm sure her version of "kappa sig" is far different from mine.

and as for satyan - go if you want to go :) i assume you aren't cancelling plans to do so. but maybe you should mention this whole not so into it any more with dev sooner rather than later :)

evy

didnt evy date jessie? so did jessie tell the boy that evy was breaking up with him to date her? :) then id feel even worse for the boy!!!

thanks for picking me over the dog :)

megan - do you talk to carebear at all online anymore?

nush,

have you checked your deleted items for satyan's email? ;)

don't be sad

i'm here, but actually busy (surprise surprise). i'm also exhausted since i got like no sleep last night (looks like i slept too much the rest of the weekend, so all i did was toss and turn yesterday). i don't know if i want to be "exclusive" with joe. i don't see anything wrong with what we're doing now - dating and hanging out. so nope, i definitely won't be asking him if he's my boyfriend any time soon, since i don't really care :)

meg, i went to the website - king is so cute! you have to get him! he's adorable :) i'd like a puppy, but i think i love anusha more, so i guess we'll keep her instead ;)

i did not hang out with julia - i'm only supposed to see her every other weekend, but i'd done 2 weekends in a row because i thought i would be in miami this past weekend. . .

i think we might be getting shark tale on netflix soon. if we do, i think next weekend's outing is just going to be making brownies or cookies at home and watching shark tale. sounds like fun, doesn't it? :)

nush, i agree with megan: you're a big girl, you should be old enough to break up with your own boyfriends! freshman year in high school, jessie aleman had to break up with one of evelyn's boyfriends because evelyn was too chicken to do it. poor boy. . .

joe's been busy all day so i haven't talked to him :( he usually calls me right around lunch but jackie said he's been running around all day. when he and jackie had breakfast together, though, he told her that he had an awesome time with me this weekend :)

back to work. . .

too many boys, cant keep track....

satyan cant come cause as far as dev is concerned he is coming! this is your fault megan - by accident when he asked how you were getting to boston i said you and edgar were driving, and he was like if she invited edgar why dont you invite me, and iw as like well i dont know i just didnt think youd be in town/like it/wanted to spend time with just my friends. and he asked if he could come, so i said yes...

megan i think you are right about the no pressure thing anymore, but i think it was helped by the fact that he didnt do anything stupid and we watched lots of good movies, so friday (friday night lights) i was awake the whole time and excited about it (even though we started late, which is usually a source of concern) and then saturday night (notebook - how can you have issues when you are watching such a cute movie and he is hugging me while im crying...)

dont worry, if i play these cards right satyan will be around when you come to visit next...plus there are huge hedge fund conferences in FL that weekend/the week after that he is going to that i dont get to go to (although today i hinted to allen that maybe i could go, and he didnt shoot me down...so ill keep proding...)

jules and i talked more about boston...our idea was friday, hang out at roads or rupas sisters apt after we get there friady night, sat day spend the day doing touristy things in boston (using edgar as our excuse to do said touristy things), then sat night celebrate rupas bday. get all dressed up, drink at someones place a bit before we go out, go out to a nice dinner, then whiskey park (so jackie can remind the cute guy christian what he is missing). sound ok?

still no word from satyan....he has a show again tonight, i really want to go cause i want to see him...should i??? (id have to call him to ask where it is cause i cant find the email where he told me that...)

everyone left

now i'm sad.
i want to go home now.

ok, now i've caught up

man, i get dicked over with this whole *holiday* thing - i kept having to remind myself its was president's day and that was why things were closing early - the only holidays we get are thanksgiving, the day after, xmas, new years day, memorial, and labor day. in fact . . . i wonder if we get easter . . .ok, i just checked - we do NOT get easter, but we do get july 4th. apparently we are american but not christian - i guess that works.

yesterday - i left early (since i worked on sunday) i picked up edgar and we went to the shelter i volunteer at to show him the dog i want (www.lollypop.org is the shelter's website, i volunteer at the fairport branch and the dog i want is king in case you want to look it up - anusha, he's waaay too big and not trained enough right now for you to like but i also can't have him because he's too big for an apartment, so you're safe) then we hung out for a little at my apartment, then went out for sushi for dinner then chai (we are chai drinkers these days) there was a group of people sitting waay too close at the coffee house, so it wasn't as nice as usual so we left early and decided to go to the $1 theater. nothing was starting then (8:30ish) so we decided to drive around for an hour and come back and see a 9:30 show of blade:trinity. during this drive around, i don't know how we got on the topic but we started talking about yetti. he knows basically all of my stories (hells, he's seen pictures of most of the guys) but we got into the chronology of carebear/yetti - basically, me explaining the overlap of the two. it was very random - but i like that we are close enough and comfortable and secure enough that we talk about our past relationships openly (or sporadic hook ups/24 hour dates if you are me)

as for the breaking up of dev - Anusha Prasad. tsk tsk. you can break up with him all by yourself, you are a big girl. it sounds like you had a nice weekend with him, though - you think it was sort of "the pressures off" because you know you are over him and his actions can be taken more lightly? maybe you can tell satyan to find a friend in boston the first weekend in march to go visit . .

jules - do you want to be exclusive with joe? my romantic story with edgar is one day i just blurted out so, are you my boyfriend? is that what i should refer to you as? yeah, i'm suave . . . he laughed at me and thought it was very cute :) did you hang out with julia this weekend at all?

rups - if you read this, i hope you feel better!

i wouldnt go away even if it were just julie!!

megan, we love you, but not that much! :)

jules - dev has called - of course. the second im starting to really lose interest he really pays attention...satyan hasnt called yet. i emailed him since i looked up the broader story of last samurai online to see if we pieced together all the parts together correctly...we did :) (megan, he apparently has exactly the same problems in comprehension in movies as i do! to the point where after i scene i didnt understand, i usually am able to say i didnt get that at all, and you, julie, dev, everyone else in my life usually explains it immediately - no not satyan, he basically says i didnt get that at the same time!)

so much work to do :(

i'm here!

there wasn't anything new when i checked this morning so i gave up hope! . . . and actually did some work . . .

i haven't finished reading, but don't go away because you just think its the two of you!!!

i don't know,

but it's just you and me and we spent enough time talking last night!

oh well. . . has dev called you today? have you talked to satyan? (spelling?)

where is megan today??

hi ladies

i'm so tired of explaining my delta/weekend situation to everyone here. nush, thanks for filling megan in :) and rups, you were nominated to break up with dev for anusha after i told her i couldn't do it. you're a lot more patient and sensitive than i am :)

anyways, yes, joe got wasted on thursday and cried on thursday night, but i had such a good weekend with him the rest of the time that i've forgotten all about that already. in his defense. . . the poor guy had a really shitty day at work. someone that works with him stole his biggest customer, the one customer that makes up more than half of his business, and it was done in some way that isn't really allowed or something. so, needless to say, it's a pretty big deal. he was really really embarrased that night and the next morning. the good thing is that he was coherent and a bit more sober before we went to sleep, so we talked and joked about the whole thing for a little - i think that made everything a bit less awkward in the morning. the next day we hung out all day, he finally left at around 3. he was really hungover and neither of us had to go to work, so we just laid around all day talking/cuddling/watching tv/making fun of him for crying. . .it was fun :) by the time he got to my apt thursday night he was pretty wasted, and then he kept drinking vodka and shots of patron after he got to our place. he came over after i called him from the airport and told him that i missed my flight because delta sucks. he was out at dinner with a friend of his - he went to get sushi and sake after work to try to forget about his terrible day. that night he went to his boss's house to play poker, and i went to jacob's to hang out for a bit. sanjeev was there and so was alex (alex is his roommate). nick g. came over for a little bit too, and we all just sat around drinking beer and watching tv. nick brought some weed with him, so we smoked a little and then went to mcdonalds. it was a pretty fun low-key night.

then saturday i just laid around most of the day watching movies. i saw the notebook (which i've seen before and loved, and which still depresses me). i went out with joe saturday night. we were going to try to go to a comedy club but it was sold out, so we just went to dinner and then to a quiet lounge around the apt. the whole night was really nice. then we went back to the apt and started watching some of troy in the living room (i don't have a dvd player in my room), but we ended up missing most of the movie because we were making out/talking. he didn't stay over because he really had to go home (he lives with his parents and his dad is really strict and likes to give him a hard time. his dad wasn't too happy that he stayed over thursday night without calling them. . . )

anyways, sunday i was really productive. i went to church and the gym, and then i cleaned the apt. then i watched the rest of troy and saturday night lights. sunday night i watched desperate housewives with anusha and then fell asleep really early because i was exhausted. monday i did a little bit of work for my dad, then joe picked me up in the afternoon and we went to this really nice mall in jersey, shore hills. he's going on a cruise in a couple of weeks so he needed some board shorts and shirts and stuff, and i just needed jeans. we had such a fun time hanging out all day. while he was trying on and purchasing $480 worth of clothes at georgio armani, i got offered a glass of champagne but asked for an expensive bottle of water instead :)

then we went back home and went out to dinner close to the apt. we wanted to try to go to balthazar, this place that is supposed to be really good, but the wait was over an hour, so we went to mercer kitchen instead. the restaurant was nice and quiet. . . we had a lot of fun.

anusha asked me when do things become "exclusive" between us, but i don't really know how/when that happens. i really like him though (despite the whole drunken crying). we're going to stomp this saturday, and then the following week we're going to the heat/nets game. i'm going home in a month now, march 17th, for a 3 day weekend. so, even though i had to spend my weekend in the shitty cold weather up here, i had a very relaxing and fun weekend with joe :)

ok, i'll stop boring you all to death now (especially anusha, who knows about all of this already). i spoke to rupa briefly this morning. she's really sick - she thinks she has a fever - but she has to be at work because she has a ton of crap to do. poor rupie :(

yesterday it was just you babe!

luckily bofa gives us most bank holidays, so we were off for presidents day...

but today everyone is back in their respective places...

warning: this is really long, and only about me!!!! ill let julie fill in the stories about her and joe that we talked about last night

i had a very eventful weekend....i dont even know where to start. perhaps at the end - jules comment to me was, the old nush is back...yeah thats right, we spent the whole night talking about sooo many different boys that i think are in my life, and then i went to my room to call my boyfriend and say goodnight :)
(god i hope he isnt the spy on our website....)

anyway, my first excitement of the weekend was that on friday christina almodovar invited me to her wedding! im so excited. ive never been to a wedding and i think itll be fun to go to hers - we arent that close anymore but there was a time when we did everything together!

then friday night dev and i stayed in cause i was practically on my deathbed thanks to whatever sickness julie gave me. we saw friday night lights, paused the movie a lot for random make out/sex breaks which was the most amazing night i had ever had....

sat, he left in the morning, i had lunch with my parents, then went to his apt to study, then had dinner with nalini auntie and her family (it was random that everyone happened to be in nyc on saturday...) then sat night, dev and i repeated friday night, minus the hooking up cause i got my period on sat morning...it was wonderful. sunday we just did work all day, then he left for seattle...

thats when the fun part of the story starts :)

yesterday i studied all day, and then at 4 satyan came over :) we watched the last samurai in my room (the living room is waaay too hot, so its a perfect excuse to be in my bed...) we def started the movie watching experience with lots of breathing room between us - when wed turn a little bit elbows would rub maybe but not much more than that...

in that time jules and joe came over, came in and said hi, we chatted a bit, apparently when they left joe was like "thats not a relative is it"
julie: "no its just a friend of hers"
joe:" ive never seen her so smiley and giggly and happy before..."

he is very perceptive :)

anyway after the movie, we talked for a bit then it was too late to go out to dinner cause 24 started at 9 and he wanted to watch it. so we ordered in mexican food. after which, the breathing room definitely decreased....

at this point arms were def touching, he had def discovered how ticklish i am, etc etc....

that went on from like 9 when 24 started until about 1130 when he finally left...after 24, we talked for a while, then cosby show was on so he was like ok i guess ill watch that. after which i was sure he would leave, and he was like well now seinfeld is on i guess i could just take a cab home after that :)

no kiss or anything, since after he left i had to call my boyfriend and tell him why i hadnt answered my phone all night (told him that i was watching tv and stuff and didnt hear it, which is partially true...)

anyway then julie and i spent the next 2 hours talking about what the hell im supposed to do now (to which i requested that rupa break up with dev for me..., rupa will you do it??)

anyway now i cant get my goofy smile off my face...time to do some work...

just me and you?

nush - is it just me and you again? is julie going to work or rupa back in nyc?

i had an ok weekend - i worked out after work with jess, then hung out for a little while until she went out to a bar. i went to sleep early.

i slept in for the first time in FOREVER (10am! i was shocked) then, edgar and i had a ton of running around to do. we had a wedding to go to that night which we STILL hadn't purchased the gift for . . . and then i found out saturday night, that he also didn't have anything to wear. so, we went to the mall. i picked out his outfit - a sort of shiny dark royal blue dress shirt, a really cool yellow with black strips tie, and black dress pants (anusha - i thought of you. i know blue and yellow isn't you *thing* any more, but i still like the way it looks) he looked awesome :) we got their present, got ready and went to the wedding. the ceremony was nice, short with a whole lotta jesus but her dress was really pretty and the bridesmaids were wearing red dresses that i actually liked. the ushers were in black with red ties with vince (the groom) in the same black only a white tie - it looked really nice. then, hung out and got coffee until it was time to go to the reception. dinner was crappy, but vince challenged edgar to get up and dance and edgar said he would if he put on salsa or merengue (spelling??) and he did :) so, edgar and i got up and danced for a while - sooo much fun!!! more hanging out and we eventually left around midnight. we got into a jessie discussion so it wasn't a perfect night. he thinks i get used and does his best to deal with her (by "discussion" i meant he vented)

sunday - i was at the lab before 8am, at lollypop walking dogs by 9, back at the lab by 11 and there until 1:30ish. then edgar and i went out for . . . whatever meal happens at that point then hung out at my apartment. my mom stopped by to drop off some stuff and to pick up some books (she was on her way home from buffalo, but the weather was supposed to get bad so she didn't stay) more hanging out, then he left i watched charmed and desparate housewives, jess came home and we hung out then to sleep!

and there is someone around me wearing too much perfume/cologne (spelling?) like, i need to get up and move or i'll be sick.

2/22 update

megan and i just emailed all day (well till noon...) here is the email :)
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anusha:
youll be paying a lot more money..they are cutting all their prices because a lot of people feel that way. ive never had a real problem..all though jet blue is my favorite - solely for the doritos :)

day is going well - not so calm, but i get bored if there arent things going on. just got out of a meeting, leaving in like 20 min to go to another one where they are buying me lunch. those are my favorite meetings :)

tonight dev and i are going to asia de cuba. its in sex and the city. we went for my bday last year and i loved it. very shishi (i dont like that word but thats the best way to describe it...) i watched the sex and the city episode yesterday where samantha dates the HOOOT black guy whose sister is a chef at fusion - i wonder if thats a real place. tried looking it up but only found bars by that name. i should wait till rupa gets back to ask her..id like to go there sometime if it exists...

but i still think i like satyan. i think i want to hang out with him one more time before i decide that. he asked if id meet him at B&N tomorrow and he can read while i study and then he can take me to see the aviator :) i said id call him later to let him know...this is supposed to be my weekend with dev - aka no other plans...but this sounds sooo tempting. i think tonight or sometime this weekend i want to tell dev that im interested in meeting other people, and see what he says....

i took julie off - looks like she isnt goign to respond. we can just send them our email at the end of the day as a recap :)

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Megan:

i really don't like delta - after my experiences with them, i will
pay more money to not fly delta.

so how is your day going? calmed down and no more late hours now
that you are finished with the thing you were doing?

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Anusha:
not going home...
i told her to try priceline. but i think she was too mad to try anything...
delta reimbursed her 200...

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Megan:
>so is julie not going home at all? or is she just catching a flight
>today? did delta reimburse her for the ticket?
>

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Anusha
we wont get motorcycle diaries for a long time...our turnaround time is muuuuch slower than yours!

i know, but we are allowed to have drunken sobs. i think this is a
different situation.

yup first night he stayed over :) they both arent working today...so we should get an interesting update on tues morn when julie goes into work...

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Megan:
neither of us should be hard on him - we both have had our amazing moments of drunken sobs . . . so - he spent the night? he had to wake up to julie in the morning after his amazing waterworks display? is this the first time he's spent the night?? oh, poor boy . . .
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Anusha:
haha not just cried- he was sobbing for over an hour!!!

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Megan:
he got drunk and cried???
dude - julie. you need to elaborate.

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Anusha:
actually, julie is here...

she missed her flight last night! she got there at like 5 (530 flight) and stupid delta had already sold her seat...needless to say
ive never seen julie so disappointed to see me :)

anyway i cc'd her on this, we can post the thread to the blog later
so rupa can catch up on our lives over this 8 hour period :)

julie has lots of stories for us...i tried to go to bed at 11 (after
being very good and studying for 2 full hours...) and i was kept up
till 1230 cause joe (yes the joe that we all thought is so cute and
great) well he came over and brough patron (the fancy tequilla the
girls like, yes this is the joe we like) well he got wasted and
started crying and throwing up...he was crying cause of his bad day at work, which was seriously bad, but come on! anyway ill let julie fill in the rest...i got up to take nyquil so id pass out..which i
did, and now im paying for it again. i feel like crap.

hi rupa!!

happy early bday rupa! weddings are so much fun!

take lots of pictures, see you next week!!!

hi girls!!

hello there! i'm in san jose at priya's place... entertaining myself while the lady does her henna on her hands and feet.. we are in hour 3 of the henna doing! we've been watching movies back to back to keep her entertained.. she isn't supposed to move the whole time.

things are good here... i'm so glad i came early and we are getting some q time. how are you girls? jules i'm glad that the review went well. i think i like blockbuster the best of them all :) with the month free and all. they also give you 2 free rentals in the blockbuster store for every month that you are a customer

anyway... getting offline now.. but have good weekends. wuv you guys :)

it posted

thats good that you had a good talk with him. ive learned thats one of the best things about a job - being able to be open with your manager.

i dont think blockbuster lets you do the 5 at a time - at least i couldnt tell that from the quick look i just took at their website.

:(

i wrote a pretty long blog but it didn't post :(

i'll try to re-cap quickly since i need to get some work done before i go home:

nush, i'm sorry if i got you sick. tylenol cold and tylenol flu worked wonders for me. gargling with hydrogen peroxide mixed with water helped my throat, too.

i don't know what i gave up for lent. i tried to give up saying bad words, but i forgot (especially since i dont curse too much). . .

i'm leaving to head to the airport at 3:30. it's like 75 degrees and sunny in miami :)

i kind of like netflix since we upgraded to 5 movies at a time. . .

i'm back

i just had a really good meeting/performance review with my manager. he's just really good about telling you what you want to hear and making you feel better about everything. i just let everything out, and was completely honest in telling him about everything that's been bothering me about work/the people i work with. we met for almost an hour! it was a good venting session, he was really happy i opened up and told him everything i thought :)

lent: i think i tried to give up cursing, but then i forgot about that. i don't know what to give up, and now we're like a week into it so it seems pointless to give anything up. . .maybe i'll just give up sweets completely. that seems like something good to give up, considering that i just had like a billion hersheys kisses and chocolates (hey, i just got my period. . .give me a break!).

nush, you should be excited about your new camera! it's so tiny and great :)

i can't beleive i'm going to be home in less than 12 hours! i'm so excited. it's sunny and beautiful in miami right now :)

nush - i'm sorry if i got you sick :( take tylenol cold or tylenol flu - that shit worked wonders for me. and try to get plenty of rest. and if your throat really hurts, gargle with a little bit of hydrogen peroxide mixed with water . . .

distribution centers

i don't know if thats a technical name for them . . . just that, when i mail my movie back i mail it to a location in rochester, ny. you guys probably mail it to a ny, ny address (or somewhere really close) my aunt in buffalo has to mail hers to rochester, ny - so its like an extra day each direction in the mailing process. i'm not always patient, i want immediate gradification. plus - you can't get as many movies if the shipping time goes from 3 or 4 days from mailbox to mailbox to 5 or 6 days. . . .

ahh

i think blockbuster. plus you prob get a month free or something just for trying it...i was meaning to ask j/j about switching. just seemed like a hassel to move all your ques over. does bb have a way of moving that for you like yahoo/hotmail/gmail do if you switch mail accounts?

what does the distribution center mean/ do they keep movies ready for you in rochester that they can just mail out as soon as they get yours, therefore the turnaround is much quicker?

i had lunch with patty. it was fun - sushi - but i feel like crap so it wasnt as exciting as it should be. one pet peeve i have in sushi is splitting the bill in half - i mean we ordered the same amount (1 roll each, and split edamame and 1 roll) but my roll was 5 bucks and hers was 11. but what i dont like more is when people dont realize that and say something; so i never bring it up and then it just bothers me a bit...oh well just a little pet peeve. ive been blogging about lots of pet peeves today! must be getting close to that time of the month...

back that coffe up

i didn't give up caffeine, just buying stuff from the coffee kiosk/cafeteria at work. i was buying a mocha a day - so it seemed like a good thing to give up for lent. something i could do but would def be missed. there is usually a morning coffee run around 9:30/10am around here - and i haven't gotten any for over a week now :)

i didn't completely give caffeine up - it just seemed like i was drinking a lot of it at one point (like the double tall mocha a day) so i thought i should cut it out a little. now, i hardly ever drink highly caffeinated substances any more (i go to coffee houses and drink chai - which still probably has caffeine, just seems like it must be less than that of a mocha)

netflix vs. blockbuster vs. walmart

ok - i'm doing some research.
netflix - $17.99 a month/35,000 movies in their library/3 movies at a time/distribution center in rochester

blockbuster - $15.99 a month/30,000 movies in their library/3 movies at a time plus 2 instore rentals a month/i don't know where the distribution centers are

walmart - $12.99 a month/i don't know how many movies/only 2 at a time/ and i don't know where their distribution center is

so - don't really like walmart's version because i don't like only having 2 at a time . . . but blockbuster seems like a better deal! just depending on where they ship and receive . . .

i know, random. but i have a two hour incubation time right now which isn't up for another 35 minutes.

lent

ahh you gave up caffine for lent? i must have missed that part of your life...

geez i cant believe one year i was crazy enough to give up wings!! i miss that...i def need to order wings one day next week.

i posted my old camera on craigslist. i def wont sell it till i have the new one in my hands, but would like to see what i get for it. i cant believe it sells on ebay for over 300! we shall see...its a great camera, this new one is just better :)

hess vs wegmans

the difference is that the hess station is on the same block as the hospital and wegmans i would have to get to my car (a 20 minute walk) and then drive to a wegmans (which is probably a 10 minute drive) if i wanted to cross the street, there is a dunkin donuts and a starbucks also really close to the hospital - but since i gave up the coffee kiosk for lent, i feel that starbucks in the middle of the work day is kind of breaking that . . . really, mountain dew probably is too - i just want to get up and walk around :)

naturally

the reason i took nyquil was that i couldnt fall asleep naturally...oh well...ive resigned to being worthless today...

i dont think its weird to go to hess and get a MD? why would that be weird...sure wegmans would prob be less weird but then again when were you ever concerned with that?

the shared body heat is def way too much to handle! esp in our old apt where the regulation of heat/cold is impossible (esp in the shower which is my biggest pet peeve in the apt - every morning i have to battle with the shower and doge its blasting heat or freezing cold water...i hate days i have to wash my hair in the morning..)

im glad you are spending quality time with jessie :) i think im realizng and acting more from talking to julie/dev a lot about my thoughts on friendships etc that its ok to have the ebb and flow of friendships and it shouldnt rule your life. its not me at all, but ive just backed down from the whole toral thing, and its sad but itll get better, or at least this will become normal...

jules - mark (megan - i found out he quit yesterday) just came and said today was his last day blah blah blah. im glad he took the time to come and say that. i was wondering how he would approach it. this morning he was whistling in his office and it was pissing me off :) he will be right down the street so im sure we will meet up sometime...

naturally

the reason i took nyquil was that i couldnt fall asleep naturally...oh well...ive resigned to being worthless today...

i dont think its weird to go to hess and get a MD? why would that be weird...sure wegmans would prob be less weird but then again when were you ever concerned with that?

the shared body heat is def way too much to handle! esp in our old apt where the regulation of heat/cold is impossible (esp in the shower which is my biggest pet peeve in the apt - every morning i have to battle with the shower and doge its blasting heat or freezing cold water...i hate days i have to wash my hair in the morning..)

im glad you are spending quality time with jessie :) i think im realizng and acting more from talking to julie/dev a lot about my thoughts on friendships etc that its ok to have the ebb and flow of friendships and it shouldnt rule your life. its not me at all, but ive just backed down from the whole toral thing, and its sad but itll get better, or at least this will become normal...

jules - mark (megan - i found out he quit yesterday) just came and said today was his last day blah blah blah. im glad he took the time to come and say that. i was wondering how he would approach it. this morning he was whistling in his office and it was pissing me off :) he will be right down the street so im sure we will meet up sometime...

nyquil

i don't think dayquil has any *wake you up* type ingredients . . . so, really you should be able to take dayquil INSTEAD of nyquil and then just fall asleep naturally and be fine the next morning. i think the only big difference between the two is the sleeping medication that nyquil has in it . . .

none of my blogs like me...

megan i think the last one was the most shocking about the gym :)

i cant keep my eyes open. jules i think i caught whatever it was that you had two days ago...i took nyquil last night cause my throat was killing me...i have a love hate relationship with nyquil - i love it at night when it lets me pass out and forget about all my ailments, but i HATE it in the morning when i have to get up and come here. i think nyquil needs to come up with a pill that reverses the sleepiness effect. i guess they have, called dayquil. im just too lazy to go get some.

i just sent what we had been working on to larry (allens boss). all done. unless he has questions or doesnt like something...which i dont think will happen. its pretty thorough...

im so excited about getting this new camera! megan - rey had the sony camera that i totally wanted when he was here and he has some ghetto connection that can get it for 300 (its usually 600). so i wrote julie a check and when she comes back on tues i should have my new camera!!! jules - rey said it was a new one with a 512 meg card right? i was only half listening when you told me about it :) just blindly trust you and rey that i didnt really think about it...

everyone's gone. . .

nush is working her ass off (she got home from work at like 10 last night!)

rupa is having fun in cali

megan doesn't love me anymore

and i'm leaving for miami this afternoon! i'll be leaving work at 3:30, so i guess i should work hard until then :)

where are the new posts?

slept over at eun's last night and watched motorcycle diaries :) it was ok, mostly it makes me want to find his biography and read it. i'm really into latin america these days - shocking.

ok - now its time to actually do work :) i know, shocking again :)

oh - and i went to the gym yesterday with jess. that's the second time this week! (for the gym bunnies, not impressive but do you remember how lazy i am??) AND i'm going tonight with jess. i cut our gym time a little short last night (she wasn't really that upset, i think she liked the excuse) but i told her i'd stay longer tonight if she wanted to go. so, we started talking about what "longer" meant - yup, i'm in for a 2 hour gym cardio/weight work out tonight! my muscles are tingling with excitement!!!

gilmore girls

and rory is sooo going to get her heart broken.
i don't blame luke - lauralei is sooo high maintence. she was so bummed too though . . . they HAVE to get back together. and get married. and live happily ever after.

cause soho is more fun than west 30s

not sure there is an occassion she is just going out with some people..

alex is so annoying. i think i just need a break from work...our deliverable is done, now we just have to wait till 530 when allen gets here to look it over and add his part...

i think im going to study here later...

gilmore girls

and rory is sooo going to get her heart broken.
i don't blame luke - lauralei is sooo high maintence. she was so bummed too though . . . they HAVE to get back together. and get married. and live happily ever after.

spring street lounge

whoa, spring street lounge is nowhere near the 30s. isn't that the area she wanted to go to at first? what's the occasion?

tonight i just want to go get a pedicure, pack for my trip, and lay in bed. now that i have to skip the gym since i'm sick, i figure i might as well take advantage of being a worthless bum :)

dude, megan and rupa, did you guys watch gilmore girls last night? luke is trying to break up with lora lai. . . what's up with that???? they're so perfect for each other! yes, you can tell that i was really affected yesterday.

someone was really accessing it that often?

rups - can you tell?
oh wait, she's probably gone. but is that for real? someone was checking us out that often??
i don't get it - we're just not that interesting!

i want to go out for martinis . . . i still have a bottle of wine from new years that i haven't opened yet. open bottles of wine don't stay good for THAT long, so i don't want to open it, drink one glass and have to toss the rest later on. but i also usually have enough things planned that i'm going to be out driving around instead of relaxing for long enough to drink a glass of wine and hang out. maybe i'll open it this friday . . .

someone was really accessing it that often?

rups - can you tell?
oh wait, she's probably gone. but is that for real? someone was checking us out that often??
i don't get it - we're just not that interesting!

i want to go out for martinis . . . i still have a bottle of wine from new years that i haven't opened yet. open bottles of wine don't stay good for THAT long, so i don't want to open it, drink one glass and have to toss the rest later on. but i also usually have enough things planned that i'm going to be out driving around instead of relaxing for long enough to drink a glass of wine and hang out. maybe i'll open it this friday . . .

someone was really accessing it that often?

rups - can you tell?
oh wait, she's probably gone. but is that for real? someone was checking us out that often??
i don't get it - we're just not that interesting!

i want to go out for martinis . . . i still have a bottle of wine from new years that i haven't opened yet. open bottles of wine don't stay good for THAT long, so i don't want to open it, drink one glass and have to toss the rest later on. but i also usually have enough things planned that i'm going to be out driving around instead of relaxing for long enough to drink a glass of wine and hang out. maybe i'll open it this friday . . .

thats random megan...

he is also in class/working all day that he wouldnt be able to access it every two hours..right? basically we need to find someone exactly like edgar...

jules, natasha is going to spring st lounge today. i love that place :) their lychee martinis are so good. if im feeling up for a break / something to put me to sleep better, i may go meet up with them later...

there were lots of blogs

and then i went to lunch and there are no new ones . . .

all new movies :)

i havent seen any of the ones coming! troy, friday night lights, or the notebook :)

if they cant fix it tonight dev will be around all weekend and will prob need to fix it just so he can do work anyway...so worst case itll be done before you come back...

the blog and the notebook

there is a real case for the snoop being edgar - except i asked. he fully admitted looking for it and he's heard of the-cloak. he used to use it until they started charging for it, and then he felt that it was a government conspiracy. he's a little bit paranoid of government tracking his day to day life - apparently being raised in a household escaping communism with a rebel fighter dad makes one a little big government skeptical. so i don't think its him.

jessie went out and bought the notebook the day it came out. she's already watched it 5 or 6 times that i know of - including with directors commentary. it is pretty sappy - and i'd have a box of kleenex handy if you are feeling even the least bit emotional while watching it. just in case you are intrigued - ryan gosling, who is the male lead, hasn't made anything else worthwhile (murder by numbers - very bad - and united states of leland, full of famous B-listers our age, but sort of an adolescent attempt at an indy flick) and the female lead is THE mean girl from mean girls.

dammit!

i really wanted to see motorcycle diaries, too! oh well, at least we're getting the notebook. nush, have you seen that movie? very girly, kinda depressing, but an awesome movie :)

i called time warner - they sent out a signal to reset our cable, so hopefully it'll work when we get home tonight. if not, we have to call them when we're home and they'll walk us through a few steps to try to fix it. . .

its your fault

megan you are the reason we have "a short wait" for motorcycle diaries and prob wont get it for a while!

oh well...soon enough...im excited to get all new movies

hi!

i love old pictures! always fun to look through :)

blah.. i wanted to leave work in a lil bit to go finish some errands before my trip but i haven't had time yet.

this site is only more secure b/c it's a diff URL so possibly someone can't figure it out. our blog isn't anywhere that would be searchable.. to be listed in google, there has to be alink to your site somewhere.. and to be in blogger, we have to agree to be added which we didn't.

do you think edgar was reading? especially if he was hunting for it? :) it's gotta be someone we know... b/c they type in the URL directly each time. if it comes from a google search, you can see that.

megan- i think you should live on your own. i think you would love it. especially with new purple spoons.

motorcycle diaries and old pictures

jules - i'm glad you are feeling better :)
nush - don't work too hard and get sick like julie

speaking of netflix - i got motorcycle diaries in the mail yesterday and i'm watching it tonight with edgar at eun's - our last night to sleep over there :) i'm excited.

as for the to gym or not to gym - i've got a great way to rationalize it . . . find a picture from the end of freshman year. hold it up while looking at yourself in the mirror - it will 1. make you realize you can skip a little gym for the purposes of health and 2. motivate you to not completely ignore the gym. where am i getting this brillant idea? at some point, i was given one of those picture holders that stands on its own/can flip through it - is that making sense? anyway, i put some pictures into it and brought it in to work - yeah, right now its a pic of me and pete from graduation night - DAMN my face is pudgy! (and pete and i should have dated)

yeah!

you guys watched all those movies? you finally tortured yourself enough to finish manchurian candidate? ill watch most of them this weekend as my study breaks :)

if you dont want to spend that kind of money on a beach house, we could always go to my lake house - our only expenses there would be food/alcohol and its practically free every weekend except for maybe 2 or 3 in the whole summer...i think the problem is usually getting everyone to be free together!

megan i googled all our names like that too and didnt find anything :)

lets all move

to florida! the weather here hasn't been too bad lately, but i'm still sick of wearing jackets and being pasty white for the whole winter. meg, i honestly don't know how you live in rochester. yesterday rupa and i spent like an hour looking for beach houses to rent for the summer. nothing like what we did last summer, though. we were thinking of getting a nice place, right on the beach, for like 1 week. looks like we might be able to find it for like $200/person for 7 days, so that's not too bad. right now this is all kind of just like wishful thinking, of course. . .

i feel a lot better today! (i know you were all concerned about my health). most of the flu-like symptoms are gone (i think i had a fever last night and must have sweated it all off). now i just have a sore throat and just feel kinda tired. . .hopefully i can go home kind of early-ish today (skipping the gym again, which i'm not too excited about) and try to get some rest so i can be good for miami tomorrow. my flight home is tomorrow at 5:30. . i'm soo excited about seeing my parents. i bought my dad some coffee beans yesterday at this coffee place that he really likes. now all i have to do is go home and pack tonight. i'd be nice if i could see joe again before i go home, too. i wonder if i can get him to come over tonight when he gets out of the gym. . .

nush, good luck with work! i hope you don't have another crazy 12-hour work day. at least we'll have 3 new netflix movies today or tomorrow for you to look forward to :)

poor guy

can you imagine if someone took away our entertainment of the day?

i love my calvin kline and wachol strapless :) did i tell you after all those bra trying ons i kept 2 of the 4 - one of each type...i decided at 40 bucks a pop i didnt need a black and nude in each type! they have come in handy more than i expected!

so - the new website

how is this more secure than the last one?

edgar has a windows98 - i asked him straight out last night :) and i did some playing on my own before hand - i don't know how somebody could find our blog - i googled combos of our names/girls/blog to see if i could get it to come up - it doesn't. edgar said that he had looked for it, but had never found it (playing on the actual blog website) the only thing - are we in like the general blogger list, can someone randomly push "next blog" (found in the upper right hand corner of your screen) and have it click over to ours?

i think i had something else to say. but now i can't remember it.

its snowing out again today in rochester - heavy packy stuff. yesterday, it was 50 and sunny, today its snowing. THIS is why i don't want to live here any more.

so - i've been thinking about having my own apartment (i bought measuring cups and spoons last night while i was in walmart, purple but kind of ugly - yet for $1.24 each, i'll suffer) i made a list of priorities - and then there was a new flyer in the elevator this morning that met ALL my priorities . . . except being $100 a month more than i want to spend (and someone wants to rent it now, not in july) right in the same neighborhood, pet friendly - its a house that the people are renting the top floor . . . tear . . .

i'm now obsessed

with the-cloak's doings. he/she also read all of yesterday!!! which means that he/she knows that he can't read anymore. i wonder if he'll find it?

sorry you had such a long day yesterday nush :( good luck with the big deliverable. you better go out and celebrate once it is done!!

things are good here. i'm so excited for priya's wedding. yay!! trying to get some work finished up before i head out tonight. and i need to buy a strapless for one shirt that i got.. i think i'm gonna do that at lunch. jules- wanna come? :)

i'm now obsessed

with the-cloak's doings. he/she also read all of yesterday!!! which means that he/she knows that he can't read anymore. i wonder if he'll find it?

sorry you had such a long day yesterday nush :( good luck with the big deliverable. you better go out and celebrate once it is done!!

things are good here. i'm so excited for priya's wedding. yay!! trying to get some work finished up before i head out tonight. and i need to buy a strapless for one shirt that i got.. i think i'm gonna do that at lunch. jules- wanna come? :)

i'm now obsessed

with the-cloak's doings. he/she also read all of yesterday!!! which means that he/she knows that he can't read anymore. i wonder if he'll find it?

sorry you had such a long day yesterday nush :( good luck with the big deliverable. you better go out and celebrate once it is done!!

things are good here. i'm so excited for priya's wedding. yay!! trying to get some work finished up before i head out tonight. and i need to buy a strapless for one shirt that i got.. i think i'm gonna do that at lunch. jules- wanna come? :)

12 hours at work, 12 hours at home...

hopefully that pattern doesnt continue tomorrow...

last night i went home, ate dinner, tried to study (unsuccessfully cause i was so tired) and then passed out at about 10.

we have a huge deliverable due by tonight that alex allen and i are all working on...a version of the SEC comes in and monitors all our practices annually and asks for lots of detailed stats that we monitor, but dont keep tabs on in the way they want it presented. thats what all of us have been spending all our time on for the last 3 days. seems like a big waste of time to me! oh well...

rupa's so cool

but i'd be REALLY TRULY impressed in your detective skills if you manage to find out who the cloaked spy is ;)

yup

you can see the timings and everything

so yesterday the person checked basically every 2 hours.. from 12 noon until 4pm or so

can you see what time they check it at?

i moved everything over

all our old blogs etc are in a new server.. well i guess we still can't tell who looks at the other one.. but at least we can start fresh and actually watch who checks this site..

i was looking at the old stats and it's basically always us four (bankofamerica, deshaw, and rochester.edu) and it has been the whole time.. but the-cloak person has been looking since october!!!!

how can we see?

how did you just move everything over to this new site?

ha ha!!!!

aren't we tricky!!! now we can see who actually looks at this!! :)

:)

true, only jealous "ex" i could think of....

meganl@alum.mit.edu

it is sooo nice out today. just walking to the bank to cash a check was fun and energizing:)

megan's email

address? what is it? :)

don't give him that much credit

he has windows xp, and i'm like 99% sure that he has no idea what the cloak is or how to use it. . .

what OS does peter have? :)

im sooo tired....i think im going to go out for some fresh air...

wait, you're not a slut???

:)

i don't care who it is

i'd rather know that no one else is reading :) although, i guess i'd rather have a complete stranger reading about our lives than someone like, say ekta. . . especially since we're not exactly 'nice' all the time. . .whoever is reading this must think i'm the biggest slut!

i'm still feeling pretty shitty, so i guess i'm going to have to skip the gym. blah. i hate skipping my workout, especially when i'm going to be home and wearing a bikini in a couple of days.

i re-scheduled my performance review for thursday. i'm just not feeling well and i don't really feel like having a conversation with anyone right now. nush, they already paid me my bonus. i'm think i'm going to mention that i wasn't satisfied with it, but i'm pretty certain there's nothing he can do about it now. what i definitely want to do is tell him how annoying and difficult it is to work with katy's replacement . . ..

its prob someone who does know the 4 of us...

i mean we love watching the girls in sex and the city and desparate housewives go on and on about their lives...there are a few days that we are completely boring, but all in all i think we lead pretty interesting lives :)

NOT STAYING IN ROCHESTER

ok, you can say you don't want me to move to fl, but there is no way i'm staying in rochester. i've tried small, medium and large and visited you guys in extra large - i need large. i hate having to drive everywhere, but not enough people to have regular cabs.

not my bf...

he def doesnt have windows 98...

thats scary. rupa youre job to figure out how to fix it! :)

your performance review is now?? did they already pay out the bonus or can you still talk to him about all the stuff we (you rupa and me) discussed that night after i found out i passed the exam? i dont remember all of it but i remember we had some good ideas for how you should approach him and tell him you are worth way more than he is paying you...

yeah we saw them at the bar with hoegarten on tap :) i love rochester. megan you cant move to FL!!

we're not that interesting!

i don't get it, why would someone spy on us??
its not me - i don't have jealous ex-bf and i tell my present bf all the interesting stuff ;)
seriously, how do you stumble onto a site like this? and how do you find it interesting enough to read it - when most of it is 4 people you don't know going on and on and on about themselves?? people are sad.

ummm

password-protect this sucker, please! i DO NOT want anyone reading this. it's kind of like a journal, right? how creepy would it be to have other people read this and start stalking us or something? and no, i don't know anyone with a windows98 machine.

we did meet megan's work people. they were at that bar for a little bit the first night we were in rochester. i'll probably go to boston that friday after work, too. i really want to hang out in boston for a bit, and i know that jackie's one only requirement is that we go to whiskey park at some point. that thursday (march 3rd) is the night joe's taking us to the nets/heat game :)

nush, i'm sorry the rest of your evening wasn't great. you guys looked like you were having such a good time cooking and all. i think you should just end this all and date satyan ;) i'll go with you to the show next week . . just remind me that i can't put my pjs on when i come home. . .

rups, dont' let your roomie get to you. you're going to cali tomorrow! you can't let anything get you down.

i finally have my year-end performance review with my manager today. it's been so long since i got my written review, that i don't really care anymore. . .

spies

so i was looking at the stats of our blog and i think we have some spies...

someone has been reading this using "the-cloak.com" which is a way of visiting websites while hiding your ip address. the person doing it has a windows98 machine. kinda ancient.. but does anyone know who that is?

could be a jealous boyfriend... let me know what you think. maybe we should password protect this.. or change the URL

yumm

i just had our leftovers for lunch :) yummy

im so tired and work is frustrating, but im in a surprisingly good mood today...

such a chatty blog today!

this is fun :)

welcome back rupa :)

megan, i think i met work people when i went alone last year? who did i meet?

pics are up, just need to write captions...if i get time today ill do it and email it out...there are over 100 of them :) but it goes by quick - its hard to send a bet of pic cause the whole trip was so fun...

satyan works at a fund of funds in CT, met him at a conference a while back, met him again, introduced myself again as if i hadnt met him, he laughed and was like i met you at this time blah blah blah. went to the US open with him...does that help? he plays the tabla for this girl from india who sings some indian/american fusion. they are apparently really good - have been on MTV asia, sang at carnegie hall...there is another show (not with the girl though i think another group) next thursday...if you are free you should come too!

have you talked to ameya? hows he doing? is he using his blog??

im going to go to boston on friday...im hoping julie is doing the same and ill just go up whenever she does...i guess i was thinking greyhound since its the same price as chinatown and more convenient to get to...

everyone's here!

i'm getting in to boston thursday night (march 3rd) koo's seems like its going to work out amazing - ann will probably have moved out by then, so edgar and i will get our own room :)

you guys did meet courtney - briefly. she's the married one. she's doing better now :) she took action and went on a cleaning frenzy, so i think it worked off some of her energy. plus, gen helped her, so i think they vented together. they take everything SO PERSONALLY around here - it amazes me they can get through a day without exploding.

i'm glad joe was cute and rupa had fun. sorry nush about dev :( not at all that i'm agreeing with him - but sometimes when really annoyingly uncontrollable things like that happen, you need to lash out at something. except that he has a history of not recognizing you are not the proper "something" to lash out at, i'd say forgive him. as it is . . . i don't know. i just think you should be able to realize when your frustration is about an inanimate object - once or twice can be ignored, but consistently venting on a person is immature. its like a child's temper tantrum.

hallo!!

i don't think we met any friends from the new job, right? all the folks we met in rochester were p.f.changs and other restaurant folk.

HI EVERYONE!!!! :) i know it's been a while since i've written but i am finally back. sorry it's a blah morning.. jules you should leave early today again!! get lots of rest so that you are all ready for your trip. t and s can survive without you. you should MAKE them survive without you.

i had a really nice valentines day. i went out with work people.. matt, ellie, and my roomie and this other guy for tibetan food. which was really fun and the food was awesome. i got home fairly early, watched everwood and crashed early.

work has been good.. i'm leaving wednesday night for the wedding (yay!) so i'm super excited.

megan- sorry courtney is being weird. how is the volunteering going? are you having fun with the animals and bonding with the Dr. who's gonna write the great recommendation? i hope things are going well. when do you guys get in to boston? i know i missed all the lbogs about this and you are staying with koo.. but if you need a place to stay.. if koo's is cramped or something. you guys could take my sis's futon.

nush- when are you uploading pics of the trip? i'm so excited to see. it was nice hanging out on friday :)

umm.. those are all my updatey messages.

i'm kinda blah too... my roommate's kinda pissing me off.. nothing terrible.. i've just started to notice how different she acts around diff people.. and people in general who act like that really get to me. it's not even that she's doing anything terrible.. but just watching people be fake and getting to see diff versions in a short span of time makes my skin crawl. so i'm trying to be better about dealing with it.. it's not a good way to be in general.. especially since we tend to come across lots of people like that.. i.e. a few brown girls we know from mit?

anyway.. i'm fine. happy to be blogging again.

who's this satyan guy again? what kind of show does he have?

courtney

was she one of the girls that came out with us that night? one was married and one wasnt...what are their names again?

i had a lot of fun last night :) dev and i made one of the best dinners. we usually only make mexican so it was nice to change it up. i made the same mushroom thing i made for our dinner party a few weeks ago and dev made bruschetta which was amazing and pizza which also was very good. my little set up in my room was very romantic although i def miss his apt in atlanta on days like that...his apt was so spacious but the little table in my room worked out perfectly :)

of course when we went back to his place he found a way to ruin the night...it was raining and if you remember from previous stories the rain tends to pound down on his air conditioner and i really cant sleep...so when i walked in i remembered and was totally bummed out. so he nicely was like well i thought of it so why dont we just take it out. i was thrilled that he suggested it and i didnt have to complain or stay awake all night...BUT when we took it out (julie this part will make the most sense to you) it staarted dripping black disgusting water...just like jackie predicted hers would. it was gross. got all over the carpet and one of his new shirts, which i immediately washed in the sink and got all the dirt out of it, put it in the laundry and its perfect now...but still he was mad and saying things like why did you make me do that i wish you were more accomodating etc etc. it pissed me off cause he suggested it! and its just not fair - it is really irritating. its not just me complaining about something minor.... anyway, he was a jerk, and then realized it and kept appologizing and saying that it wasnt fair lalala...urgh....kid of negates the whole happy first paragraph dont you think...

i think i really want to date satyan :) my friend from the other fund of funds...he called me last night...i obvioudly didnt answer but his message was cute...we are going to see aviator next week...and he has a show on next thurs night (jules we have to go to this one...no getting comfortable in pjs like last time!!)

g'morning ms. megan (and the rest of you)

i feel so blah. my throat has been hurting since yesterday - i left work a little early to try to sleep it off. joe came over last night and we just hung out at the apt - it was so nice. we just talked for a while, ordered food, then watched a movie (trading places, which we just got on netflix). i really wanted to see it because it deals with commodities, which is what jackie and joe work with every day. anways, it was really nice just having somebody to cuddle with :) it sucks that he lives all the way in jersey (so it takes him like an hour to get home on the train). he left at around 11. i tried to go to sleep after he left, but i just tossed and turned on my bed forever. blah.

oh well, hopefully i'll get better if i just lay low this week, and then i'll be in sunny mia on thursday night! :)

oh yea, nush - i finally returned the manchurian candidate today! and we also returned starsky and hutch. aren't you proud? ;)

courtney

the human room across the hall is messy.
it is def not all me (or even mostly me) but i'm sure its partially me! and courtney went in there and now she's all freaking out. i want to like take the blame so she's not directing all her anger at anagha and katy (who she really likes to blame all the world's evil on) oh well. maybe i can just avoid her for a while and she'll calm down . . .

good morning darlings

no gifts from me either...

there isnt anything glaring in my face that i know he wants hence the just doing cute romantic things at home...i think hell like the candles since that was the big thing last year too. and hell def like the no studying :)

i plan on going home, cleaning the apt cause it is absolutely disgusting and then getting dressed up till he comes. im wearing my new vday necklace from my parents and tonight ill wear indian clothes just cause i like excuses to wear indian clothes with him...

i cant believe its almost 3...time flies when you have tons of busy work to do :(

vegas?

sometimes there isnt an explanation. that being said id looove to go to vegas. dev is going there tomorrow morning for a conference all week...

i didnt know about sat night :) miguel was really cute. he had nice eyes. all the boys were really nice. i really wanted to buy rey's camera but never really spent time with them after the first night i got back..oh well, maybe when we go to miami for the cruise...

cliche's are cliche for a reason

a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

bird in hand - joe
the 2 in the bush - miguel and spikey

the one that is around and great is great - not just great because he's around :) he's better than the random guys!

and dude - what is up with leaving early for vegas? did rey know? hate to be so pessimistic about a guy i don't know - but maybe he was in it for sex and when he was shot down, he decided vegas with vilma was better than two no's in a row :)

i am worthless - by the way. i sort of did some work last week. that's it. really - only 2 days of work sort of spread across a 5 day week . . . i should attempt something but i do want to ask eun questions and now she is officially not in touch until friday.

when i replied to anusha about plans for tonight i completely didn't think about the fact today was vday :) i have to keep reminding myself - edgar and i agreed to not celebrate this year - actually, i suggested it so i wouldn't have to figure out what to do for him. sounds sad on my part, i know but he has no money doing the school thing - so its not completely selfish :) actually, i'm thinking of getting us both massages (a spa around here has a neck, back, and hot stone massage 40 minutes for $55) because we take turns giving each other massages and i thought it would be nice to let a professional do it :) but i'm not saying anything to him because i don't want him thinking about it. last year, he took me out to dinner on a random night to tappas (anusha, the restaurant we went to with jess and molly) because vday was on a night we were both working.

goodbye earl

megan, that song just started playing on my ipod, so i obvioulsy thought of you immediately. ahh, the good ol' days :)

anyways, i had a fun weekend too! i obviously didn't get as much sleep as i needed, but i still had a great time.

i saw the gates in central park yesterday! i took julia ice skating in central park, which she loved. it was her first time on the ice so she was a little scared at first, and she definitely didn't let go of my hands the whole time we were there, but she had a great time. she was so excited when i got to her apt to pick her up. she even made her mom buy her a disposable camera so she could take pictures! when i picked her up, her mom told me that she (the mom) had been depressed for the past couple of days, so when we left her house i told julia that we should buy her mom flowers for valentine's day on our way home. her mom LOVED the flowers! you should have seen the look on her face, she was so surprised. i'm glad we got her mom flowers, because when i got there they gave me a valentine's day present, too! a teddy bear and chocolates. . isn't that cute?? i definitely wasn't expecting anything.

so, megan, i guess you're probably the only one that needs an update on my weekend since anusha and rupa have heard most of it. . .

as you know, rey, jose, and miguel all arrived tuesday night. rey and jose went to high school with us, and this was the first time we met miguel - he went to college (FIU) with rey. he's 25 and lives in santa barbara now. since the first night he was always hanging out with me and going out of his way to be nice to me and stuff. i thought he was cute and really interesting. thursday night we all went clubbing. we had about a billion shots at the apt before we left. i was pretty wasted by the time we got to the club and ended up making out with miguel. he slept in my bed when we came home, but we didn't hook up or anything. we just made out for a little and then went to sleep. the next morning he sent me a couple of cute text messages and stuff. i felt like shit on friday, because i knew spikey was coming friday and didn't think he'd be too excited about me making out with miguel . . .

on friday we all pre-partied again at the apt and then met up with spikey and jordan (jordan's our friend that promotes at different clubs. he went to cornell with spikey, and we actually met jordan through spikey). spikey was pretty wasted by the time we got there - he was actually really really drunk. he started dancing with me as soon as i got there and kept trying to kiss me. i told him that i'd gotten wasted the night before and made out with miguel. he was like, "so, will miguel get mad that i'm dancing with you right now?" i obviously said no. so whatever, spikey didn't seem to mind too much. we made out and danced for a while, and then he kept telling me that he just wanted us to go home. i had just gotten there and rupa and anusha and a bunch of work people had just arrived, also, so i definitely didn't want to go. i also didn't really want to go just go home and hook up with him - i wasn't drunk enough to make that seem like a good idea. so he kept insisting that we go home for a while, then we went to the bar to get him some red bull 'cause he was falling asleep. on our way back from the bar, some girl that had been staring at him all night grabbed him and started dancing with him. and.. . that's all i saw or heard from spikey the rest of the weekend. he hung out with that girl all night, then when the club closed the guys and some girls were going to get something to eat, and spikey took that girl with him. i went home when i realized that all the guys had girls. he didn't say bye, he didn't call the rest of the weekend. . .nothing. so whatever, i was kind of bummed that night but it's no big deal. he's definitely not worth it. i was just kind of annoyed that i wasted the beginning of the night hanging out with him instead of just hanging out with miguel. the girl spikey spent the rest of the night with wasn't even cute!

so miguel, rey, and jose all came home at like 7am that morning. saturday we all (rey, jose, miguel, jackie and i) went to brunch, then went to f.a.o. schwartz, central park, shopping. sat night we went to free wine and got a good buzz going there, and then we went to a couple of other places. miguel and i spent most of the night hanging out together again. we were sitting together at one of the bars we were at, and he kissed me. i totally did not expect him to want to kiss me again after he saw me making out with spikey the night before. at some point in the night we met up with this girl that the guys are friends with, vilma (spelling?). she was reallly nice and cool. we were all at a lounge by our apt together. jackie went home because she was tired, so i was there with the guys and vilma. after a while miguel wanted to go home, so he and i left and rey, vilma, and jose stayed at the bar. when we got back to the apt we started making out a little and he tried to go a little farther, but i didn't want to so we just went to sleep. the next morning i woke up early to go to church, then went to pick up julia to go ice skating. when i got home at night, jackie told me that miguel had left and asked her to say bye to me. he was supposed to fly back to california today, but decided to take off last night to go to vegas with vilma. random? apparently they had lunch together sunday, she was going to vegas and convinced him to go with her. this is the part that jackie and i are really confused about. if there was/is something between miguel and vilma, then why did he hang out with me sat night instead of with her? so weird. a

nyways, rey and jose will be gone by the time i get home tonight, and i'll just go back to wonderful joe :) i'm still exhausted from the whole weekend and i think i might be getting sick, so i don't want to to anything tonight. joe and i are hanging out. i want to do something low-key, like order food/or grab something not-fancy and just watch a movie. ok, back to work.

edgar and i

i have no idea. he and i (once again) have conflicting schedules on mondays. he has class for 2 to 4 and from 6 to 9. so - i'm at work during most of his break, and he's in class for a good chunk of what would be "us time" . . . so, i don't know. maybe i'll see if he wants to go some place to study and i'll read or something like that. . . (we lead boring lives)

i have a movie from netflix that i've had for about a week that i should watch - but it just looks boring. i'm not sure why i put it on my list in the first place, but i didn't really notice when it came up and i started watching it the other day and it just looks awful - its called army of darkness and is like a spoof on sci fi/horror flicks. its only saving grace is that its only 80 minutes long. i've gotten through like 20 minutes of it - maybe i can tackle the other hour tonight. plus - i will stop by eun's and feed her cats and go to the gym.

thats an under statement :)

but i think it does look really cool. esp in the winter since all the trees are bare and the whole park is sort of bleak...

i wish julies dad were here to take some cool pictures! although mine and sashanks werent too bad :)

i also uploaded all the japan pics last night, later today ill caption them and order them and send them out...

what are you and edgar doing tonight?

the gates in central park

i've heard all about it . . . i think on pbs. i don't get a lot of tv stations, and usually the clips on the pbs/channel that has random british stuff has the most fun random shows (travel shows, the jewish cooking show . . .) the artist and his wife are WEIRD.

my turn

i had a wonderful weekend!

friday night went out with patty for her bday with natasha and some of pattys friends. it feels good to just be out with a bunch of girls like that even though i didnt know most of them. then the girl night continued at rupas. she is the cutest host in the whole world! ellen and her friend from work were there and rupas sister. the rest were de shaw people. it was fun! good drinks, awesome food (which you guys prob already guessed). then we got dressed and met up with julie and all her men at a club. which was fun but i really dont like those crowded clubs anymore. and from that night, my vote is def for joe over spikey. he was drunk and totally not impressive. i cant believe he has a kid!! but i like joe :)

sat i slept most of the day then went to see a very touching hindi movie with dev. it was in times sq which by itself is cool :) the movie is called black - megan not sure if theyd have it in rochester but i think youd like it. so add it to your netflix cue. its very sad but really good acting; basicalyl a hellen keller story of an indian girl.

sunday sashank kerry and i went to central park to see the gates (megan: an artist put up like 50,000 saffron colored flags all over central park, ill send you a picture tonight, it looks really cool) then went to the natural history museum with satyan (my friend from work) and then dev and i went to ruby foos in times sq. i really liked it! its like pf changs but better....then desparate housewives then bed :)

tonight dev is coming over and cooking me dinner. im excited. things are going well (i know i know, they are going well for like the last two days, that isnt indicative of anything...) but anyway, i have the candles that he lit in a heart shape last year for v day so im going to take them out and light them up again in my room. i think julie and joe are going to be home too, so well prib just cook and then go eat in my room while watching a movie. im going to set up a mini candle lit table on my floor using tejals end table that she made and then pillow cases to sit on. i miss his huge apt in atlanta but its ok i think itll still be romantic :)

ok back to work....

the weekend review

so, eun's dad died thursday night-ish. friday, we got phone calls in the lab from pulmonary (eun's department) because that was where her sister was calling in hopes of finding a phone #. i skipped out early and went to dsw and then to euns - where i found the phone #, called the hospital and tracked down the person in pulmonary who had talked to her sister, got her sister's # and left a message with her # in spain. friday night, i did a whole lotta nothing. edgar and i slept over at eun's house - he had a headache and i had cramps saturday, so we spent the day in bed. saturday night, i cleaned around the apartment and watched "united states of leland" (pretty eh in my opinion - jess liked it) sunday was my fun day. the weather was great - sunny and 28 degrees so nothing was melting but it was pleasant to be outside. i walked dogs in the morning - which i loved. then, i hung out with jess for like half an hour and picked up edgar. he and i grabbed some breakfast (bagels and coffee eaten at eun's) then we were going to go to this snowtubing hill - but when we got there, it was sooo crowded - like going to a really small crappy water park in august where there are only 6 slides and lots of kids. so, then we were really far out there - too far away to get to the snowshoeing place that was our second choice of things to do. so - we went to my grandparents weekend house and went walking around the trails there and went to dinner at this country diner place. then, we drove back to rochester and went to see hitch. i don't care about reviews - i loved it. kevin james was soo funny. and will smith is a beautiful beautiful man.

i'm going to get nothing done today - i can tell already.

you guys are all boring...

but its ok cause its finally 530 and im gonna leave soon

muah

bowling ball...

thats what my upper lip feels like again. i hate the dentist. but hopefully thats it till june when i go for my 6 month cleaning...

i know the feeling

there doesn't seem to be enough time to work, enjoy yourself, AND do things like study for tests.

the pregnant lady in the lab has now been told to go on an atkin's diet because she gained too much weight. basically, all we talk about is pregnancy these days . . . she has gained too much weight and still has 2 months left, so the dr. put her on an atkins diet to drop some of the extra lbs. poor girl . . . i don't know how you guys do that no carb crap - i like things like sanwiches and pancakes and fruit and veggies too much to have to regulate.

good :)

glad to hear you are doing better...

i didnt know shark tale was out on dvd already! i found out this morning and added it to my netflix cue...the goal of the test last december would have been nice if that was it, but unfortunately it has started again. i cant help but feel that every social thing i commit to is time away from studying, and there arent enough hours in the day or days in the week to finish everything i need to do...

next weekend with everyone gone (julie in miami, rupa in cali, jackie in cali) i think i should be able to get some solid work done so i dont feel like im always buried...

time to eat lunch, i have to go to the dentist again today...this will be the last time in hopefully a year...

morning girls!

ok, i'm in a better mood today!
the sun is out and as soon as i left yesterday i called edgar and we met up for chai. we talked for 2 hours about random stuff and it was better. i talked to him about not being able to talk about us and about what scares me about our future and a lot of stuff that i needed to say. i think he is getting more and more willing to be flexible about things and i'm not giving him enough credit - like anusha and dev's issue of her going to sleep early. he and i have the same problem - i told him this saturday i wanted to sleep in. that it didn't matter when he woke up, i would probably just roll over and go back to sleep. he was more than ok with it. which seems really small, but its a constant tension when we don't get to spend time together that when we do have time alone, i sleep. basically - we have a goal of july 1st. then, i'll get my own apartment and jessie will move to buffalo - kind of like anusha's goal for taking the test last december.

then i went home and watched shark tale from netflix with jess and went to the movies to see hide and seek with her. i am really looking forward to july. we still get along great - its just so hard to have those good moments when we live together and still don't see each other because of work and edgar. it will be nice to have her move away so that the time we spend together is the good stuff without all the bad stuff.

so, all i have left for my to do list today is email eun some data. its going to take some time to get the data set up right and the email composed - but not 4 hours! yeah - i might leave early again today :)

good morning

thought id start the morning off by sharing one of my japan stories :) i think a week of stories in piece meal may be a better approach than me trying to write it all...

other than the food, the second most annoying thing about japan was coffee - there must be some huge import tax on it or maybe they just like to torture people who drink coffee as opposed to green tea like how we punish people who smoke with high prices...but in any event a coffee the size of a grande here is over 4 dollars! and they dont even have the venti size - that is just un heard of. the one good thing about it - now when i buy 2 dollar venti coffees at starbucks it seems cheap to me :) i wonder how long that will last (probably until i get off my butt and order some senseo coffee from their website!!!)

other than that random japan story, i didnt sleep again last night. dev came over and like i predicted he wasnt so happy when i wanted to go to bed "early" which was 11 pm and which by my standards is not early! anyway he finally let me sleep, and at 2 when he came back to bed tried waking me up, succeeded, and then i was awake till 5 am. i was not a happy camper when the alarm went off at 630....

today is pattys bday so im gonna go out to dinner with her and whomever else she invites, then to rupas, then hopefully out with j+j...

sorry megan part 2 :(

we may be in another city but we all have cell phones, and i even have verizon - its free to call me!

i just left you a message but ill try again around 6 when i leave work...

i'm going home

i haven't done anything today and i've already almost cried like 3 times. i told courtney and gen a little bit about it so they are both giving me really sympathetic looks and being great.

the problem is he doesn't want to push me - that's where the just be friends came from. there is a vet school in florida, in gainesville. i looked it up, pretty good. one of the vets at the animal clinic nearest me in rochester went there. and he's already insinuated that he would move with me where ever when i went to vet school. and the rush for the decision comes from a couple of places 1. i'm may be 23, but he's 29 and staring 30 in the face (april 30th) so he's in its time to get married range (esther's grandma told him he was a little ripe to still be single) 2. i think he's already decided in his mind that he would be happy marrying me - so, if i'm not feeling the same way, he'd rather know now that just be sitting around waiting for the fatal blow. we've had this conversation before - i just think its becoming more and more do or die time and harder to just not think about it.

and you know what makes it harder? i don't have anyone to talk to about it. you guys are in another city, i'm not THAT close to gen and courtney and jessie will not listen to a conversation about him. i don't even want to talk to my mom about it because even though she's really come around to being ok with him, i don't think she's ready to hear about how serious he is. since the little break up/get back together in august - i feel so on the defensive about this relationship, like i have to make it seem perfect to everyone so they just lay off their unwanted judgments.

alright, that's it. i'm starting to cry again. i'm going home.

sorry meg :(

i don't know too much about serious relationships (since we all know i haven't had anything resembling a serious relationship), but it doesn't seem right that he wants to push you to make a decision (i have images of aidan and carrie running through my head). why do you have to decide right now that you do or don't want to be with him for the rest of your life? some people date for 4 months (like my parents) and know that's the person they're going to spend the rest of their life with; while it takes others years to figure that out. is it wrong for me to think that 23 is still a bit too young to get married and all that??

and even if you knew that he was "the one", how would you feel about moving to florida? why does he want to go there, anyway? does he know if there are any vet schools in the area? would being in florida somehow be better for his schooling/career?

we didn't get tickets for the basketball game last night. we went to msg and found some guys outside trying to sell us ticktes, but the guys thought they seemed really sketchy and they didn't want to risk wasting our money on fake tickets or anything. so instead, we just went to 40/40 (jay-z's sports bar) and watched the game there. miami was playing really shitty and the game went into over time, but miami ended up beating the nicks in the end. after that, jackie and i went home because we were exhausted from the night before. the guys were a little annoyed that we didn't want to go out with them, but they ended up meeting up with some girls they had met at the bar tuesday night. an hour after we got home, jackie and i got a phone call from the guys asking "do you guys know of any places where under-21 year olds can get in?" yep, apparently they were hanging out with really young girls. i found that amusing.

i'm going to the gym after work today, and then i don't know what we're doing tonight. i think jackie's asking josh to put us on the list for whatever party he throws tonight. i don't know how i'm going to get through this weekend, i'm already soooo sleepy!

you can stall but only for some time...

i think its fair that you dont have to make a decision now about where this is going and what you want, but its also fair for him to ask you and at some point to decide that if you dont know and probably are leaning to wont, then its fair for him to want to "just be friends" (not that i think the friends part will work...at least not functionally...)

what time frame does he want to move to FL? if staying with you meant staying in the NE (or mostly just north for you I guess...) would he stay?

im actually being productive this morning :) somewhat...my appetite is all over the place though, no sense of timing in my body for being hungry and knowing what i want to eat...really ive been craving wings (surprise surprise...). i think ill order that tonight...

jules, did you get tickets to the game last night? whatd you guys do?

no one was meant to get up today

so - i slept over at eun's last night with edgar.
my day was going fine - i went to the gym with jess then headed over to eun's - took care of the cats and watched a little tv until edgar got there. we haven't been spending a lot of "alone time" together lately. anyway, we got into this discussion - one that we've had more than once lately - only he took it a step farther. basically, its the where is this going, should we be together. he suggested maybe we should "just be friends" that's not what he wants, in his ideal world we would be looking at moving to florida together and getting engaged/married. i don't think i'm ready to lose him. but is it fair of me when i don't know - and am leaning towards won't - whether we'll end up together forever?

then this morning i realized i had packed pants and a caridgan, but had skipped the shirt underneath so i had to go home and then to work - which made me late to lab meeting. courtney's lab meeting. and i was sleepy because obviously i didn't sleep well last night and then she turned off the lights - so, i know she noticed and i'm just so blah. i don't want to be here. i feel like crying.

oh yeah :)

i was wondering why what i wrote didnt seem to make sense...

im tired too, and i just got here, so i also feel lazy and guilty...i hate that! anyway no gym for my tonight either cause i told dev id hang out with him tonight...hopefully he doesnt get too frustrated if i go to bed at 9...

so much work to do and my eyes are barely staying open!

correction

nush, we got "married" so that YOU could park at westgate - i always lived on-campus! and dude, don't even remind me about the tech caller days. . .i still tell people about the time some asshole picked up the phone and said his girlfriend couldn't talk to me because she was busy giving him head. ewwww.

anyways, that's crazy about christina. nush, are you invited to the wedding?? are you going?

i think i knew that marlene got married. i think i might have heard it from gabe or something.

ok ladies, i'm tired and cranky because it's rainy out. time to have breakfast and read the paper :) oh yea, and then i should eventually try to focus on work. . .

lasted this long...

think ill go home soon...

maybe ill be more alive tomorrow

ahh the memories

at first i thought only megan and i would understnad how painful those conversations really are, but even julie joined the desparate ranks of the tech caller world at one point!!

jessie slept with a man married to a man

its one of her college stories-some friends of friends (or maybe strangers they picked up in a bar . . .) 2 british guys in the states for a roadtrip had purchases a car together, but to do so they had to be married. so, they married in vermont and bought a crappy car to drive around in while in the states. and she slept with one of them! apparently he was also hot.

now nush and jules have the same address . . . next time a tech caller calls you should ask them if you'd like to speak with your wife and if you could have your cards attached! and then when you guys move away from each other, you can tell them you got a divorce and start sobbing uncontrollably and say the separation has been so very painful and how hard it is to talk about it.

HAHAHA! it would be great :)

yup

kevin proposed last week...

mit has paperwork where julie and i had to say that we were married so she could park at west gate :) geez that was so long ago....

christina engaged

to kevin?

lunch and work

i do work a little sometimes :)
and i went to the parking office to submit the form to get my parking lot changed - i don't like having to take the shuttle every morning just so i don't have to walk for 20 minutes to get to work. so, now i'm on a wait list - i probably will never get off of it, but it makes me feel more validated in complaining :)

megan where are you?

julie is at a "working lunch", rupa is busy...

christina almodovar is engaged!!!!

wow...how weird.....

updates and responses

well my first order of business was to skim my 300 emails...which got boring after about 5, so i started to read the blog while i ate my dinner/breakfast/whatever hell meal it is when your body is at a 2 am timezone and you have eaten gross plane food (or havent eaten gross plane food and therefore havent eaten much but crackers for 20 hours....) anyway, now i finished my wonderful eggs and turkey bacon :) and am still working through my coffee...

quick highlights: i had sooo much fun with chike :) there are more details to come but in another blog...every part of the trip was fun. except for the night i went out with chike, i was in bed at around 10 every night and was up at 7 or so to go sightseeing every day. i even got to study a lot on the trains (each day about 2 hours on a train or so to get from place to place - japan is smaller than cali but we did the about 3/4 of the main places in the 8 days...). thats good cause now im mostly caught up which means i can hang out with my roommates and go to rupas party on friday :)

here are my comments on the blog: (and i read everything in less than 30 min, rups have you read everything yet???)

dean: megan i think esp in college there were just too many people that you valued too much and that you gave too much credit to when really you were the one making all the effort. i think most of the frat guys were like that. but thats ok, you realize who your true friends are in due time...this coming from the pessimistic one- relationships i had like the one you had with dean def make me sad, but then you look at the relationships that didnt end up like that and it makes up for it.... bryan wasnt that bad :)

random PR gossip (stemming from the juancho conversation)- did i tell you guys marlene got married? when i was in PR? JO called me to go out with them that night apparently (them = every PR we know from school including juancho (who lives in PR) except Luis....he was pissed...surprise surprise...) i obviously didnt go.

ice skating: i really want to go!! dev said hed take me on monday then go home and cook dinner for me. im not sure, but apparently he has something all planned out...we shall see...

super bowl - i saw it on a remote island in japan! how weird...sashank and i were bummed that we wouldnt get to see it but then we got off this boat and were supposed to go see another shinto temple, but instead there was a HUGE flat screen TV at the docking place, so we watched the fourth quarter. he was bummed but it was still fun...

jules - i cant wait to meet your kid :) she sounds just like you! and tell joe not to forget about the other roommate! just cause i was gone for a week doesnt mean he should forget me! :)

megan - your pay it forward idea is really cute :) and to better society, the check i sent to arjun and avinash was for 650! granted most was from other people, but 150 was from me...plus bank of america will match it 1:1 if they fill out their portion...

ok back to my boring emails...then ill blog more about the trip...

yeah!

anusha's back!!!

whoa this looks interesting!

i just got to my desk. japan was awesome!!! ill write more once i muddle through my emails and catch up on the blog...

oh woe a tangled web we weave . . .

i think you should do whatever you want, but i'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment.

you don't hang out with joe because a bunch of friends are up (does he know that some are guys? he should know that - even if its just a subtle way of saying 'we aren't necessarily exclusive') you are attracted and would be crazy about spikey if not for the distance/fatherhood hurdles. so - you talk and make eyes at one another and kiss a little. and it happens next weekend again when you go home. a month from now, you are officially dating joe - at this point, you now have a secret. you don't have an official "start" date of your romance, so you don't have a line that you cross between oh, when i kissed a boy that day it was ok, but the day after that it was 'cheating' if joe were to know, he'd be hurt.

so - i think what it boils down to is how much do you care about joe and how little do you care about spikey? what if spikey "thinks you have a boyfriend" - is that somehow ruining your big chance with him? does kissing him this weekend mean so much that not doing so would make you sad? is the potential for a guilty conscience about joe that little that its within the realm of acceptable risk? i don't mean to rain on your parade, but if you think you and joe are going to continue and get more serious - i don't think a make out session with spikey this weekend is called for. i also think joe would have no fun watching you and jackie flirt with strangers and make inside jokes he's not a part of - so leave him home.

my advice

sorry! i've been really bad about reading this blog.. i'm about to catch up with it, but here's my advice for jules....

r u p i e land: i think you shouldn't invite joe to hang out
r u p i e land: it's good you already told him that you are busy
r u p i e land: and i think it's fine to kiss spikey
smurf1015: hehe
r u p i e land: it's not like joe and you are serious
r u p i e land: yet.. :-)
smurf1015: i know, that's what jackie said
r u p i e land: i think there's no rules in the dating stage
smurf1015: oh geeze, it's going to be an entertaining weekend
r u p i e land: but if you hung out with both of them
r u p i e land: then spikey would think that joe is your boyfriend
r u p i e land: even though he isn't yet

happy wednesday!!!

slight dilemma

hi ladies. so rey (meg, he's our friend from miami, the guy i met spikey through) arrived last night with 2 friends to visit. i've known he was coming for a while, no big deal. we always have fun when he visits because he's a really good guest - he likes to take us out :)

anyways, when i found out that rey was coming a while ago, i mentioned it to spikey, kind of insinuating that he should come too, but spikey said he was going to chicago to visit his brother this weekend. ok, no big deal, i forgot all about it. yesterday, rey tells jackie that spikey's coming on friday, and he didn't say anything because he wanted to surprise me. that's cute and all, but what am i supposed to do with him and joe? joe's a really good guy - there's real potential there for the future, and i wouldn't want to screw things up (especially not for a guy that doesn't live in nyc and who has a son). on the other hand, i think spikey's just so much fun, and i was really looking forward to going home next weekend and hanging out with him. jackie says i shouldn't worry about it and i should just invite joe to hang out with us this weekend - spikey will understand, he knows we're not dating or anything. even before i knew spikey was coming, though, i had already told joe i would be kind of busy this weekend because i had a lot of friends in town (concetta, evelyn and her mom and little sis, rey and his friends), so joe was already ok with not seeing me this weekend.

sooo, i guess now all i have to do is figure out if i want to kiss/fool around with spikey this weekend without feeling guilty about joe. thoughts?

playing house

sucks.
he's into his busy schedule and i have to actually go to work in the morning - so, i don't get enough sleep because i stay up to see him. we don't sleep over that often because it would just mean him waking up early because he doesn't have a key or the alarm code to let himself out. so, generally he doesn't want to. i finally got 8 hours of sleep last night, it was really really hard to get out of bed this morning. i think i'm going to try to sleep in on saturday (that's my big goal because lately i wake up at 8:30am anyway and feel guilty about going back to sleep when i could be spending time with edgar)

that's really sad for julia. how surreal to be introduced to your new parents when your old one is still around. i'm assuming the dad is mia?

Girls

i am enjoying hanging out with joe - and not just because he's spoiling me. he's such a sweet guy, and he's really affectionate, too. i love that :)

it would kill peter if he finds out that i'm dating someone. i keep worrying about that. i guess the only way he'll ever find out is if jackie or i tell him - since he doesn't hang out with us or talk to me anymore - so i shouldn't worry about it, but still . . .

julia's mom has HIV, and julia doesn't know. the family center (the organization i'm volunteering through) is helping julia's mom now with 'future permanency planning', which means that in the next couple of weeks julia will be introduced to her future foster parents, so that she can begin to establish a relationship with them. sad, huh? i'm going to try to see her again this weekend since i'll be in miami the following weekend. if it's nice out maybe we'll just go to the park or something. or ice skating? she's never ice skated before and i'm kind of afraid that she'll hurt herself. . .

anyways, ms. megan, i will try to share the wealth whenever i go out and don't spend any money. i generally over-tip everyone as a rule, and i always try to give money at my church, too.

ok, i really need to get some work done. meg, how's playing house with edgar going?

the funny stuff that can be found on the internet

wonderful entertainment :)

i'm really excited for you with julia! what illness does her mom have? so - i'm volunteering at an animal shelter, jules is being a big buddy - what are rupa and anusha doing to better societ? :)

i'm glad you are enjoying getting spoiled by joe :) i hope you are enjoying it being joe as much as the being spoiled part. and i see nothing wrong with making use of the connections made during your time in nyc. its not like you are taking advantage of anyone or allowing them to spend their last dime on you when it was meant to go towards their sick baby's medicine. just remember what you are getting and "pay it forward" - it could be so cute! the morning after you go out with the guys and spend nothing on drinks, you should give the first homeless person you see money! and always (over)tip the guy you get coffee from in the morning! (think about it - he's saving you $2 or $3 by not going to starbucks - he'll still be saving you $1 or $2 if you give him a buck :) )

g'morning :)

i had an awesome weekend! the monday after super bowl sunday should definitely be a holiday, though. i'm exhausted! i guess a million beers and 4 tequila shots on a sunday night isn't a good idea. but we had to celebrate after joe won like $7500 bucks on last night's game. he's so cute! as soon as he found out he won, he looked at me and said "oh yea, i'm taking you somewhere nice next weekend." he's so awesome :)

friday night we went to an awesome restaurant in little italy. the food was great, we had a lot of fun. then we met up with jackie, chrisitan, evelyn, and deanna at marquee (this club that's supposed to be really hard to get into, but christian got a table and bottles, so it was all good). the club was nice and fun, although i don't think it's worth all the hype. apparently, janet jackson was there that night, but we didn't see her. anyways, we got home at like 4:30am or so. joe came up and we cuddled on the couch for a little. i was exhausted and half asleep, so then we moved to my bed and slept for a little bit. he went home at like 7am or so.

saturday i took my little buddy, julia, to the movies. it took me like an hour to get out to where she lives in brooklyn! i picked her up, we got pizza and then hung out at my apt for a little bit. then we went to see racing stripes. the movie was really cute, she liked it. then i took her back home. she was like a little chatterbox all day! it was nice to see her warming up to me. we're going to have a lot of fun :) her mom's really nice, too. it's hard for me to remember that her mom's sick. i prayed for them when i went to church yesterday. . .

saturday night we were all exhausted, so we just stayed in. it was nice to actually get like 10 hours of sleep! i was really productive on sunday. jackie and i went to church, then did a little bit of window shopping at a bunch of stores we can't afford. we went home and cleaned up a bit. then joe picked us up and we went to a bar to meet up with a bunch of his friends from work. one of the guys' brothers owned the bar we were at, so they basically just told us to sit down and order whatever we wanted. i think i'm getting spoiled - anytime i hang out with joe or jackie's work friends, we just order whatever we want without thinking about the price! i think i'm going to be saving a lot of money if i keep dating joe. . .anyways, we had beer and shots of patron (one of the guys is a big fan of tequila). got home at like midnight, then talked to joe while he drove home (i think he lives like 45 mins away in jersey), then passed out.

that was my weekend :) joe's such a cutie. he's trying to get us (me, him, and jackie) tickets to the miami heat/nets game. and he just told me that he has tickets to stomp. it's nice to actually be "dating" someone instead of just hanging out and hooking up. i could get used to this. . .

meg, was that enough entertainment for now?

no blogs yet?

ooooh . . . its monday.

well, then - i'll tell you about my weekend!
i was a lazy butt most of friday night until edgar got out of work - then i went with him to a bar where one of the chang's bartenders was celebrating a bday. i had 2 whole beers and stayed out until after 1! saturday - edgar and i went out to breakfast at this diner that is apparently a rochester legend. pretty good. then we went to the public market and walked around, then went back to my place and walked around in that neighborhood. he left, i was a big bum again. i went to the mall saturday night and bought a couple of plain shirts and earnings and two new pairs of shoes - yeah tax free week! slept at eun's saturday night . . . sunday morning, i went for training for dog walking at the shelter. boring, but good (i had to watch someone else walk a dog) then i got to go to the lab. durning one of my breaks, i read 100 years of solitude (almost finished!) but that made me depressed, so i picked edgar up during my next break and we got chai and hung out before i had to go back. he came with me, i finished my last step, and then we left together. then we went to bed bath and beyond where one of our friends is registered - since he's getting married in 2 weeks. random shopping, got some food and ate at eun's - i watched monk for the first time. then i went home!

i got my first real piece of art in the mail! its a print i ordered from a gallery in st. augustine while i was in florida! i'm in love with it - its kind of surreal and very bright :)

this week is stretching ahead of me. i should be planning today my game plan for the rest of the week, but i'm feeling less than motivated. maybe i need to try to go to sleep early tonight . . .

ok - everyone else's turn now :)

sorry meg

i feel like i've had A.D.D. all day today - it's been impossible for me to focus on anthing! i went out with jackie and a couple of guys from her work last night and got pretty wasted. rupa, erica and radie (my office mates), and a bunch of other work people went out also, so everyone's been a little wired and wacky today. i love days like this :) now i jsut need to send out an email in the next 20 minutes, and then i'm heading out :) i want to go to they gym early, then go home and get ready for my date with joe. we're going out to dinner in little italy (he's italian, so i'm sure we'll go to a great restaurant), then we're meeting up with jackie, evelyn and her girlfriend at my place and we'll all go out and party from there.

i have a date with my little buddy tomorrow! i think i'm going to take her to see racing stripes, the movie where a zebra tries to race with horses or something. i'm not sure exactly what it's about, but it looked cute.

and then sunday i think we're watching the super bowl with hamptons boys (joey, john, matthias, and brad). all in all, seems like it should be a fun weekend :)

more hand washing ahead

julie? where have you gone?

rupa? where is the hangover story???

oh, the disappointment!

stupid washer!

we have a machine that automatically washed the "plates" we do our experiments on - they have 96 little wells that can hold 300 microliters each and the machine takes like 30 seconds to wash the plate 3 times. by hand, you need to go through and fill the plate row by row (8rows) and then suction it up - it takes a lot longer. well, the machine is tempermental and didn't like my plate so i had to wash my two experiments by hand.

AND i just got the infant blood that i am going to use for the next experiment (the one that i do the second half of on sunday) - yeah, only about half a milliliter of blood. THIS DAY IS CURSED!

me here too

but tired and hungover.. so i need a lil rampup time before i can blog. i'll check in again soon.

it's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm here!

and i will be all day . . . with reasonable amounts of time to blog . . . so - bring on the stories!

you're leaving me :(

fine, i guess i won't be so bummed when you're working on sunday while i'm watching the suber bowl ;)

not so fun when the tables are reversed!

i've been here since 8am - but i was TOO BUSY! ha!
and now i'm going to clean up and go home because i just found out i have to spend my sunday in the lab.

fan-frickin-tastic.

dude

i'm not getting any love from anyone today :(

good morning girls!

dude, we're really not that interesting without anusha around, huh?

it's finally thursday! which means the weekend is almost here :) i've been looking forward to this wekeend since monday! evelyn and her girlfriend, deanna, will be here for the weekend, so i'm excited about that. jackie's michigan guy, christian, will be in town also, so i think we'll be partying with him at some point. and i think joe is hanging out with us friday night, so i'm looking forward to that too. he's such a cutie :)

as for tonight, i just want to go to the gym after work, then go home and get some sleep. i dont' know why i've been so sleepy lately, but that's all i feel like doing. oh yea, and did you guys know i'm going home in 2 weeks??? can't wait to get some sun. . .

i'm staying with gabe!

i confirmed with him today that jackie, evelyn, and i would be staying with him. i'm excited too!

mari warned me today that i might be receiving another email from peter, although she was going to try to talk him out of it. apparently, he doesn't think he's going to be able to be friends with me, and he's convinced that i met someone in miami when i was home for the holidays, so that's the reason i don't want to be with him. argh! how do i get myself into these situations??

on a happier note, i'm going ice skating today with jackie, paul, and joey (paul's roommate). that should be fun :)

staying with koo

i emailed koo about staying with her and she said of course! ann might actually have moved out by that point, so edgar and i might get our own room :)

i'm SO excited for boston!!!!

julie koo

i just emailed koo about edgar and i staying with her.
i filled the email with lots of please say no if your are at all uncomfortable - hopefully she won't think its rude that i asked.

rupa's busy, i know . .
but jules, give me something! although i actually have a little to do today (this mornign was reasonably productive) so i'm not as hard up as yesterday :)

i was here until almost 7 yesterday

helping eun copy her grant.
that's right, i get paid the big bucks to use the copy machine.
eun flies out today at 5 for over 2 weeks in spain - i will only be able to contact her via email. the super fun thing? i'm taking care of her cats again - and she practically begged me to "make use of her house" as in, sleep over through some parties - the whole deal. so i get to play house with edgar! not everyday, because there is no way he'll get up with me every morning when i go to work and i am not going to make him a copy of the key or give him the alarm codes - but i think i have him talked into doing it tonight, and on weekends :)

g'morning!

i'm here - sleepy and tired like always, and procrastinating because i don't want to do any of the work i have to do. blah. . .

what's new with everyone??

hello!!!

just wanted to say good morning. i have another crazy day.. so i won't be blogging much.. but wanted to say hi!!

hi!!!

the reason for my omition

he hasn't told me . . . yet (don't worry, i'll get all dirt out of him . . . and then grow bored and move on to someone else . . . hmm . . . seems like a familiar pattern . . .)

so is he still dating her?

and is he living in boston? i don't think you answered my question. . .

jackie knows it's not really fair what she's doing with paul, although she's been very clear with him, telling him multiple times that she doesn't want to date him and all, and he's just very persistent.

and why are you feeling sorry for joe! i'm not that horrible of a person, am i? i'll stop flirting with other boys if things start getting serious. he looked so cute yesterday :)

i talked to spikey for a little bit today, he's such a cutie! rupa and nush - you guys got upgraded to the empress level, so your room is next to his. jackie, mari, and i didn't get upgraded since we needed a room for 3 people, although i called him today to cancel mari's reservation (she decided she couldn't afford it), so if another room opens up on the empress level then we'll get moved up there, too. i can't wait for the cruise! although i should prob stop drinking so much and keep pushing my ass out to the gym . . .

windy in the windy city

yeah, her name is windy - she went to school in chicago (the windy city) i think i was the only one that found that quite so amusing.

doesn't jackie feel a little wrong "letting" him kiss/cuddle with her when she's lonely - does this guy REALLY like her? does he know she is only into someone stroking her ego when the guy she really likes shoots her down?

and you aren't kissing joey - just cuddling :) poor joe, he has no idea what he's getting into . . .

is he still dating that girl?

what was her name again? windy? and is he still in boston? what's he doing with his life? think he wants to work at d. e. shaw??? he was a smart guy. i could get a referral bonus for him. . .

they are just buddies. they've kissed a couple of times. he's madly in love with her. she likes spending time with him, but doesn't want to date anyone that works on the floor with her. she lets him kiss/cuddle with her whenever she's feeling lonely, though.

and i don't kiss joey! i guess we were on the couch and he had his arm around me, but nothing happened!

just in case you were concerned

juancho isn't married.

is jackie dating paul? are they hooking up? give me a general category in which i can place their relationship - i thought they were just buddies.

and about not kissing and cuddling with other boys - what about joeY?

here i come to save the day. . .

ok, not the day, maybe it's more like 5 minutes. sorry meg, with anusha being gone and rupa being busy, i don't know if i'll be able to bear the burden of entertaining you. . .

i don't know if joe knows that i like to kiss and cuddle with other boys, and exclusivity has definitely not been talked about. but seriously, though, i haven't been kissing any other boys lately anyways. unless spikey comes to visit unexpectedly, i don't think joe has anything to worry about.

last night was fun. i called the place where we were supposed to go salsa dancing and found out that the lessons had been postponed to friday this week, so no dancing for us. joe and paul had already planned to hang out with me and jackie, so the 4 of us went to a cuban restaurant for dinner instead. we had a fun double-date. then we went back to our place. joe had to leave to catch a train back to jersey, so i walked him downstairs and we smooched :) then jackie, paul, and i cracked open another bottle of vodka and hung out. one of my office mates, erica, was supposed to go salsa dancing with us. since that got cancelled, she had dinner close to our apt and then came over with another friend of hers, hannah. jackie and paul went to hang out in her room, and erica, hannah and i stayed up till i don't remember what time talking and finishing the bottle of vodka. it was a nice monday night :)

gabe just bought our tickets for the juanes concert in boston (for me, jackie, evelyn, and francis - evelyn's friend). i'm looking forward to that weekend :)

ok meg, now it's your turn to write

heeeelllllooooooo random :)

i emailed juancho like a billion years ago (12/10 to be exact) and he actually replied! isn't that super exciting :)

seriously - i'm bored.

but hope is on the horizon. i def have a meeting with eun today, but it could be any time between noon and after 6. i'm hoping for noon.

i'm here!!!

it's just a busy tuesday.. so not for long :)

but hello!!! i miss you guys.

damnit!

don't you girls know i need entertainment?!
where are you . . .

oh no!

I was the last one to write yesterday and the first one today!
ohhh . . . this is going to get boring.