movies

i've seen team america and hotel rwanda but i haven't seen the other three . . .

this week i'm watching the aviator, kinsey and the sea inside :)

movies and italian food

ill def try that place - the place next door to moush's is my favorrrite! the food is so good and even though its so small ive never had to wait. you feel rushed but if thats what you are in the mood for it totally works. megan we should def take you there when you are here next weekend.

we had: team america, hotel rwanda (which was one of my favorite movies of recent time. i thought the acting was really good and it was very touching without being too gruesome...and watching it on dvd was cool cause the interview with the actual guy that the movie was about was really interesting) (these were both my picks), then 21 grams (thats julies), about last night (old demi moore movie which i thought would be dumb but was actually really funny), and prince of tides (which i didnt like cause i hate barbara striesand and nick nolte...) and i saw uptown girls on demand :)

if only i remember all that i studied also........

its ok for bringing up that night :) i think about it all the time anyway...i think i learned a lot from it - and as rakesh always says, everyone has a messy night after level 1 cause they dont really know how to handle life anymore since they havent lived it in a while. id ont think its an excuse but i think its true...

sashanks wedding is going to be december 30 in LI. i think my dad is renting a bus to go from gbury to LI for all our family :) he thought that was more economical, easier, and waaay more fun than driving all the guests - its going to be basically just family. (but that means like 50 people at the minimum all coming from my house...) new years is going to be so fun this year :)

oops

i meant what movies did you watch this weekend.... as you can tell, i'm a lil distracted this week ;)

sorry

i was just kidding.. didn't mean to remind you of that night :) savore is good, i've been there, there's another italian place there that i love- on prince between thompson and sullivan called "il corallo trattoria"... that place is awesome!

i'm so excited for you to be done.. going back to school sounds like fun! i think you are right that it will be much easier than the CFA exams are.. would it be for fall 2006? you'd still have to take the GMAT this summer?

what weekends did you watch this movie? i'm really behind on movie watching...

there it is :)

i blogged but it didnt show up :(

Girls

def no manahatta.

and no falling in streets and no kicking and no waking up on sunday crying all day hearing bad things about what i said or did!!!

urgh that day still makes me miserable...

but def none of that!! we had dinner at some random italian place in the west village, it was good but nothing great. he wanted to go to savore (the place on the corner of our street) but i dont like expensive dinners on a random night...which is why i agreed to go there this saturday instead :) the waiters there know me since ive been there a couple times and they say hi to me whenever i walk home. i love it. it isnt teribly expensive, just more than im willing to spend on a random dinner...so after dinner prob around 8-9, ill call you and we will come whever you and the boys are...

:)

i think im going to be a perpetual student...before this test is even over i started thinking more seriously about the fact that i may want to go to b school next fall - and i looked things up, id have to take the gmat this summer!! although i think after studying for this, thatll be super easy to prepare for...

the best thing though about this weekend, i saw all our netflix movies!! those provided the best study breaks ever. i think this weekend satyan and i are going to actually go to the theater to see a movie. i havent done that since christmas time...

rups - arent you supposed to be on vacation this week?? why are you going to these boring deshaw meetings??

updates :)

so nice to have weekend updates all around :) i'm so excited for the next few weeks.. nush, you are gonna ROCK this test and then spend weeks celebrating :) i can't wait...

i just spent the morning catching up with jules before our super long SG meeting (i think it's my last one!!) things are good with me.. i went to boston for most of the weekend and then my sister came here and my mom too.. basically hanging out, eating out, and cooking. that's all we did... i haven't seen ameya yet- he ended up coming sunday night instead of saturday, so the "family get-together" is next sunday instead. we have been emailing but haven't talked yet about plans for the rest of the week.. i will see him tomorrow at his (and julie's) non-profit fundraiser, but i'm not sure when alone time is :)

i'm planning on taking him to alta, my favorite restaurant in the city, and the only tapas place i like (especially b/c i dragged him to so many crappy tapas places).

otherwise things are good.. i'm painting my place later this week- i think julie is gonna come over and help on thursday night.. and maybe some other work people.

nush- i will be here all weekend. i'm basically gonna be hanging out with steve-o, ameya, etc over the weekend, depending on what's planned, but i could definitely celebrate with you post-test! (just no going to manahatta ;)...) where did you and satyan go to dinner last night?

such a nice relaxing weekend

I had such a great weekend! I got to bond with jackie's cousin, Moe, and his family in new jersey. it was so much fun being in the suburbs and driving around everywhere and playing with babies and just spending time in a family. it was a nice change of pace from family life. Mo has two babies, an 8 month old and a 2 year old, so jackie and I had fun playing with them all weekend. it was pretty exhausting, though. little kids have so much energy! jackie and I baby sat for like 3 hours on sunday while moe and his wife went to the movies, and we were beat by the time they came home. we spent most of the weekend at the pool, which was great because I got to work on my tan. we partied with joe saturday and sunday night, but I don’t think I'm a huge fan of partying in the jersey shore. the people there were kind of ghetto. all in all, though, it was a nice weekend.

nush, just a few more days to go! I'm sure satyan will do a good job keeping you entertained while jackie and I are gone this weekend. I'm still amazed at how hard you've been working the past couple of weeks. . .

meg, I'm glad you had a nice family weekend. I can't believe we get to see you in just over a week :)

being alone

the apt is scarey when you are all alone for 3 days!! i def was hearing noises and the normal noises of the floors creaking and my ac def started to freak me out...then again i just started to freak me out being in the apt for 48 hours in solitude....luckily satyan came to the rescue last night :) took me out to a nice dinner and for a long walk...

and the best part is in 5 days ill just get to do the fun part with out the need for rescuing from anything!!

unfortunately everyone is away this weekend - julie and jackie are in miami, ellen is in chicago, rupa im not sure about but hopefully is around! satyan is going to take me out for a celebration dinner then if other people wnat to hang out id love to go out, otherwise we will just go home and watch a movie...

then the fun of next week starts :) monday im in ct for a doctors apt so ill go shopping for new bday outfits with my mom in the morning, wed im going out for a bday dinner with dev, thurs haircut and megan and then all weekend just a whole lot of fun :)

i love having something to look forward to after these 5 months....

hope everyone had a good long weekend :)

mine was great. did the family bonding thing and it worked out perfectly :)

ameya!!

hes back!! rups was this weekend when the parents thing was at moush's? did you see him? was it fun!!

highlights? drunken night??

we havent heard any of these stories!!

did you get your hair cut/hightlighted by the lady near our apt?? i thought you were going to stop by some day after the haircut..did that already pass? was it good? im getting my hair cut by ellens stylist on the 9th...

after new orleans i have a new love for oysters :) we should go to that place after the 4th sometime!

are you here this weekend? or going to boston?

g'mornin!

i also came to work at 11... after a very drunken night. i think i'm drinking too much!!! jules concurs.. well about her drinking ;)

today i'm gonna do it all over again, although not as hardcore.. there's a place in the city that has really amazing oysters and they do a happy hr that is $5 martinis/bloody marys and $1 oysters... i'm going there at 5 after my really tough day of lunch, shopping, and sephora.

i haven't blogged in a while.. just to let you all know, i got HIGHLIGHTS!! can you believe it? they actually look cool although i took a while getting used to them so i didn't really like them until now. more later.. happy FRIDAY!!!

good morning

my good mood from yesterday faded...i think its just dreading this long weekend...but its ok, 9 days to go and i might as well give it my all now...

hopefully ill get out early today, and then go home...

ive been watching our netflix movies to give me a study break - finished 21 grams which i actually really liked, almost done with abuot last night which is hilarious...i think we have 2 more that ill prob finish over the weekend...

my parents are comign tomorrow - we will go to the temple, walk by my test center (which is near the apt...) and then go out to dinner. devs brother is moving here on sunday so ill prob meet up with them sunday night or monday. thats it..nothing too exciting planned...

good morning my lovelies

hello darlings :)
its 11:00 and i'm just getting to work :) :) :) i meant to get here an hour ago, but it didn't happen and i don't care. i don't have a whole lot to do today and it felt too good snuggling with edgar in bed this morning.

thats funny :)

i dont know if i mentioned this but the lake house party has to be august 26-28. Im going to peru with my parents for vacation from july 10-18. I think we will finalize the tickets once sashank finalizes his wedding plans.

So make sure you guys keep that weekend free cause if not, there isnt another weekend the 4 of us are free...everyone else i dont really care about... :)

sleeping in the same room

yeah, it used to be a rule that steve's gfs slept in a different room . . . and had steve and missy not been home the same weekend, edgar would have slept in steve's room . . . i just don't kknow what will happen with all of us there. my parents still don't sleep in the same bed when they visit my mom's parents :) their designated room has two twin beds :) :) :)

we like the small town megan :)

its the company with alligators on all their stuff...overly priced polo shirts basically :)

your weekend sounds fun! kerry wasnt even allowed to sleep in sashanks room! he def didnt ask, but i did - and in front of her :) she laughed at me. i love being the sister in law

aviator is next on my list...jules i started 21 grams yesterday, i really like it! i dont know that im getting the whole plot cause ive been watching in piece meal but overall i think i get it and really like it...

good moods all around

jess leaves . . . or, left today for the weekend. so, edgar gets to sleep over tonight and tomorrow night and then we are going to o'burg after he works saturday night until monday. i just found out that my brother will be there too so i might get to sleep in the same bed as edgar . . . i'm not 100% sure and i don't want to ask . . . if not, he has to sleep on a fold out couch in the room next to mine . . .

i was here until almost 8pm last night - my good mood def got tested. but it means friday is going to be a REALLY easy day, so i think i might leave obnoxiously early and watch aviator and clean and go to the gym :)

and i don't mean to seem small town - but what is lacoste?

dont get your hopes up

i think the lacoste store in soho is a disappointment :) but thats just cause the one near our work is much better...although neither of them had the selection of shoes that the website has which was disappointing to me...(i needed a study break last week :)

thats good you are hanging out with joe! what are you guys doing??

we have been doing allocation stuff all day....

satyan is cute - he is in cali for a wedding and emailed me saying he was thinking about me :) simple things like that, thats all i need :)

as soon as we get this email out ill go get my nails done...

jules, i think its suposed to be sunny this weekend - just rainy on fri and monday...thats what weather.com says....

i'm in a good mood too! :)

even though i'm exhausted! but the heat won yesterday and wade played like a bad ass, so it's all good :)

jackie and i went to buster's garage (a sports bar with beer pong tables) to watch the game. sean (her boss) met us there, and so did joey and john (the hamptons boys) and their friends. i had so much fun! we watched the game, then played a little bit of beer pong, dranks tons of beer, then went home. jackie was pretty sloshed by the time we left. she had sushi with sean beforehand - actually, i should probably say that she had a lot of sake with a little bit of sushi, so she was pretty wasted by the time we got there. anyways, it was a good night.

megan, you were right - all i had to do was get through wednesday. now i'm all happy and hyper and looking forward to the weekend (even though i think it's supposed to be rainy). i get to go out to a fancy shmancy lunch today. we're taking jesse out to lunch to welcome him to our group (he's the new guy who's taking over radie's job). so that'll take up a good 1.5-2 hours or so. then i have a couple of meetings. and then i'm leaving a little early to go hang out with joe for a bit. i wanna check out the new lacoste store that just opened up around our apt.

we received the signed copy of our lease extension yesterday. it's official, i'm staying in new york for another year. it's scary how fast time flies. i can't believe it's been almost 2 years already.

nush, i'm sorry dev's being such a poo-poo head. you're right, though, sometimes you have to be a little mean so he can get the point.

ok, time to do a little bit of work. happy thursday everyone :)

good morning

for some reason im in a chirpy mood today...i dont know why cause i havent really been able to sleep the last couple of nights - im not sure if it is because satyan hasnt been there so ive had to resort to hugging my pink pillow, or if its all the formulas that run through my head at the oddest times or if its knowing that whether or not i do fall asleep ill be tired when i wake up since i have to wake up early...

but anyway, despite all that im in a good mood. got here early cause we have our allocation meeting tomorrow and we have to do some work on that..i plan on getting my nails done during lunch (although the callouses on my hand from the burn are still pretty bad, im still going to try going though...)

i yelled at dev yesterday. he is starting to ruin my bday already and its 2 months away. i got like 15 emails yesterday saying can we hang out this day, can we do this. and every time i have to politely say i dont know what is going on and finally i just blew it. i was so mad. i told him that i know he loves me and i know he only wants to be with me on those days cause he cares about me, but so do other people, and i want to figure out other stuff so he has to leave me alone...it was pretty bad, but i needed to do it...

1 week to go....

i'm here :)

just doing random stuff...

i read all the blog stuff but didn't know what to say :) i think it's cute that you guys are talking about wedding stuff... when will the wedding be? megan, has your happy mood lasted till now?

i'm tired.. i actually had real work to do today which is blah. i hung out with jules though.. she walked me to the salad place and we talked about boyz... which was fun :)

anyone have exciting long weekend plans?

where does everyone go after 12??

julie is napping at her desk (i know cause i called and she said the phone woke her up :)) what about the rest of you??

added to netflix

luckily this month julie and jackie have been pretty bad about watching movies too so i dont feel so bad, but team america was the first movie ive seen in weeks!!

i love all this wedding talk. i love the fact that he is getting married before me - i like seeing/hearing the guys version of how the propose, how to pick out the ring, etc etc, so that when its my turn i just think id have much more admiration about the whole process...

my bro and i talk like every day about wedding stuff - its funny :) i think itll be mostly an american wedding, with a small "wear saree, do a few of the fun traditions" stuff. my brother said no prayers in sanskrit etc. the indian part of this will be done by a guy in glastonbury that did the engagemnt stuff probably but that everything will be done in english. and short. :)

im off to go meet my "boyfriend" for lunch...he leaves for a wedding in cali for the long weekend today. which is probably best so i get sleep/have time to study without wanting to spend time with him...

everything's NOT blah!

its hump day! all you have to do is make it through today and tomorrow starts the downhill slop towards the end of the week :) and aren't you (julie) going to miami (yet again) or something crazy like that?? so put on your super stylish sunglasses (PRETEND its sunny) plug in your ipod and talk yourself in to a good mood :) :) :)

oh! movie recommendation - what the -bleep- do we know anyway? its a documentary but it holds your interest - almost too dumbed down for the general public. they have it on netflix, i encourage all of you to watch it :)

hi

i never talk on elevators either. actually, i guess that's not entirely true. i won't initiate conversations, but i dont think it's weird if people talk to me, and i'll definitely make eye contact and sorta smile.

it's gray and rainy and gross out. i wish i could just go home and crawl into bed.

ok, i have no more to say. everything's just blah.

team america

i liked it :) its super stupid, but i thought it was funny :)

i talked to someone in the elevator this morning!

actually, i had the best morning . . .
i woke up way before my alaram and fell back asleep so when the alarm finally went off i was all confused. . . but i got up, took a shower and called the mechanic. my car is like 1500 miles over the 3000 mile oil change marker. obviously, i can't get an appointment the day of but they always let you drop it off and then get to it when they can that day . . . so i call edgar-he's going to come with me in his car and then take me to work then later on today, they'll call him and he'll go with his mom and pick it up and pick me up from work. so, it takes him a while to get to my house . . . i finish the dishes take care of some laundry take the garbage out - basically feel really productive. he gets there and we go drop off my car. i LOVE the old guy that works in the office at my mechanic - he tells me my car is great all the time and he's super friendly. so, i drop it off and leave my credit card number to pay for it and when i specifiy that someone else is going to pick it up, he takes down edgar's name so that he can confirm the person instead of just handing out my keys - that made me very happy. so, then i suggest i take edgar for coffee since there is a starbucks on the way to the hospital . . . we walk in and a guy that used to work at changs is working! so, we catch up for two minutes and he gives us free coffee. then i go to work and when i get on the elevator, a woman gets on ahead of me and immediately asks what floor. this NEVER happens around here - mostly, people completely block the buttons and never think about other people. then we chat about starbucks for two seconds and she wishes me a good day when she gets off. i'm just in an AWESOME mood! no one else is . . . but i don't care :) i'm sipping my free coffee and ignoring that :)

oh, and did i mention its sunny out?

nush - i'm glad you are so excited for the wedding! its going to be a lot of fun . . . will it be an indian ceremony?

good morning

its kind of cute that the moms talk and they have no idea what really happened :) the weekend he is in ny - is that the 4th or the 10? does the rest of the indian crowd know about you and him? did you tell them? he tell them? or just word travels?

elevator talk - I NEVER TALK. And when someone talks to me it throws me for a loop. Satyan says hi to everyone that comes in! and even says have a good night/day whatever when he leaves. i always laugh at him :)


just so we all know and dont keep making this mistake, her name is spelled kerrY. not cari, not kerri, not kerrie, not carrie. Every email from my family spells it a different way! She was totally surprised :) It was great. She and I have talked quite a bit since Saturday. Im happy they dated for so long that I got to know her and her brother so well. It makes it so much more exciting.

rupa - you wrote to blog and then didnt write anything else since 1 pm!!!

i was home yesterday studying. i didnt even leave the apt. i took a practice test (still have a lot to learn...) then graded it, learned from it, and worked on other stuff. i saw team america during my breaks. it is disgusting but really funny :)

blog!!!

blog girls blog!!!

i know i am SUCH a hypocrite since i read and write on here the least... but selfishly, i have all this time to read and there's nothing new!!!

the engagement pics are super cute.. hey megan how's the apt hunt?

hope your email gets fixed!

elevator talk and engagements

def avoid eye contact and not speak. maybe if i lived in your apartment (rupa) i'd do a better job at small talk because your neighbors are actually there for more than a one year lease (and so are you) but in general - no talk.

i just went through all the engagement pictures! so cute! was kerri surprised?

ok, time to call and get my eudora fixed (my email has been broken since last thursday and i just started trying to fix it yesterday)

good morning girlies :)

it's yet another cold and windy day here in nyc... megan, same for you? i can't believe we are still getting such weather this close to memorial day.. but i guess it's better than sweltering heat. can't wait to stand on those crowded subway cars in august!! i'm feeling mighty cynical this morning, as you may have already guessed.. mostly b/c my elevator was closed for basement repairs and my subway car got stuck while packed with the lights off. and it felt like wednesday to me but it's only tuesday!!! what a loooong week.

sorry i missed the DH party last night.. my roommate needed help with this website that she's working on. and i got stuck there helping.. hope you enjoyed it (and the smores). how was the 24 finale??

so.. as nush mentioned, ameya is coming this weekend. i haven't really talked to him so i didn't know his plans but sadly my MOM knows his every move.. (i guess she and his mom have talked a bit) so.. he's in long island all of next week (which is my week off) and then in manhattan from the following weekend till wednesday.. i'm sure i'll see him at some point that week.. although for the reasons you've mentioned, i'm guessing it won't be alone time. that's ok though.. i just want to see him :)

this weekend there's a big party at his parents place for all of our indian group- moushumi, vivek, etc. and families. my mom and another mom in our group are planning this little welcome home for him. it'll be cute, although i'm sure super awkward with all the family present.

so yeah.. i'm a lil nervous. excited to see him but i want us to hang out as friends when he's here.. and i'm worried that he thinks i want something to happen when he's here.. if only i could say that to him.

enough about him.. i picked out colors for my room last night.. and for the kitchen. now all i'm deciding on is the living room and whether or not i want to paint it. the living room (eventually!) with new furniture and everything will be chocolate brown, magenta, and white.. so i'm trying to figure out some neutral color that goes with that... anyone wanna come over after work and help? (i mostly mean jules since anusha will be studying and megan has too far a drive ;) )

what else is going on with all of you? for thought of the day... what's your take on elevator talk? if it's just you and another person in the elevator (and i don't mean a really cute guy.. just someone random), do you stare silently at the wall until your floor comes while fidgeting with your bag or ipod... or do you make meaningless small-talk banter with the other person till you get out? be honest! i'm curious...

congrats :)

nush, so much happiness for you this weekend!

i'm exhausted - i flew back from miami this morning at 6:30. the wedding and the weekend was so much fun! the wedding was just like a huge reunion. we drank and danced and drank and danced and had soo much fun. they're seriously the cutest couple i have ever seen. then yesterday mari and i spent all day on our friend manny's boat. we went to eliot key, this island which is like 30 mins away from miami. everyone with boats goes there on weekends, and it's just like a huge party. everyone anchors their boats close to the key, so the water is pretty shallow. then everyone blasts music from their boats and drinks, and you just walk around and you go from boat to boat mingling and meeting people and drinking and dancing. it's so much fun. i think we got back to miami at like 9:30pm, and i was pretty wasted by then. i didn't make it home til like midnight (while i sobered up), and then i had to be up at like 4:00 this morn, so i haven't really gotten much sleep. if i didn't have a meeting in like an hour i would definitely go home and go to sleep.

good morning :)

my weekend was good :)
i slept in my apartment friday night, woke up before 8 saturday morning to go walk dogs, picked up edgar and we went out for breakfast and then spent a couple of hours walking around my neighborhood looking at houses with for rent signs in front and writing down phone numbers. i haven't called anyone, but i'm going to start either tonight or tomorrow. i also stopped by a reality place and gave my name and info so in 2-ish weeks they'll be calling me to show me apartments (free of charge, unlike the big city versions) they had a dog running around their office, so i like them already :) under "pets" on their info form, i wrote small dog - a preemptive strike so i can get the dog i want in july :)

sunday, i did silly stuff with edgar all morning. we went to brueggers for breakfast and then best buy (so he could get an external harddrive) target (i got purple jersey sheets, a mop and dust pan/little brush thing, and a picture frame for the best pic of edgar and i someone took) walmart (norton anti-virus for edgar and new pot for me) then we went over to vince's (guy who's wedding he and i went to like 2 months ago) his wife was all cute and threw a little dinner party for the two couples and her best friend. we stayed there FOREVER (ok, 9:30ish) but i was ready to leave at 8.

how fun :)

i love when you do apt projects. its so cute :) and ameya will be here...will you get to spend a lot of time with you? or are you being practical and strong like usual and realizing that he has 8000 people to see?

i dont think im going to partake in the smores/24/dh party tonight...i think satyan and i will just watch in my room so i can be studying at the same time...jackie said probably DH then 24 since to not get commercials in 24 youd have to start it around 830 or so...we shall see...

yay!

that is so exciting. congrats to sashank and kerry :)

and congrats on your new boyfriend... :)

i had a really nice weekend too... i was basically here all weekend, but went home to philly for lunch on saturday :) yesterday my roommate and i hung out in our neighborhood and cooked up a feast. we watch DH too but i was disappointed.. i did like how they did the cliffhanger though. jules, i think i'm gonna come over and watch some of it with you again tonight so we can hang out and i'll have some smores :) are you watching it before or after 24?

i'm almost out of my old job! my new job should start for me on june 6th. it is really nice b/c these days work is really not busy at all. and when it is busy again it will be with fun work, not the boring stuff i do now.

i'm taking next week off to get a breather before my next job and do some stuff in my apt. i'm going to get shelving done on the one wall in my living room, and i'm going to paint one wall in my kitchen (bright lime green) and one wall in my bedroom (a reddish rust/orange). there are a million other apt things to do that i can never do after i get home from work, that i'm gonna do during my week off. i'm also gonna go to the moma in the afternoons and write i think.. so we can occasionally meet for lunch. megan, how are things with you? good weekend?

new from the prasad family

kerry and sashank are so cute :) we had a lot of fun on saturday. they came home after the proposal/lunch and her family was home. my mom cooked a huge meal for all of us. then we had a small religious function.

satyan is now my boyfriend...we had a long talk last night...it has basically been silly to not "label" it since thats basically what he has been this whole time...anyway we had a wonderful evening like always :)

desparate housewives i thought was a total disappointment. i think they just did too much at the end and didnt really do enough with anything...it would have been better if it was 2 hours i think. hopefully the season finale of 24 will be much better tonight. (it is 2 hours)

dev is signing the offer for seattle this week. he is leaving NY the week before july 4th weekend.

less than 2 weeks of misery to go for me...

thats my update :)

i went out for lunch :)

we were supposed to all go to the hot dog cart for lunch . . . but only matt and i went. so then we decided to go to the sub place around the corner. we stayed there to eat and chatted for like an hour and a half . . it was kind of weird. my gut reaction is to drill him with get to know you type questions . . . but i know too much about him already that i feel i shouldn't know that what i really want to ask is how is your relationship with your gf but thats sort of too personal because i don't want him to be uncomfortable with me . . . basically, i was having a mental argument with myself the whole time and he didn't know it so i was distracted :)

but.,..

if joe comes to miami that weekend, hell know about joe, hell know mari knew about joe, and hell know jackie set you up with joe! and since peter is drama even when there isnt drama that will def be a scene....

i just went out shopping during lunch :) i bought a cute new sweater/shirt thing to wear this weekend. i just want it to be 5 so i can go home!!!

leaving soon, have a great weekend!

yea, but at least peter doesn't know about joe. well, he knows i'm dating somebody but he doesn't really know any details. . .

anyways, i hope you all enjoy your weekends! nush, i can't wait to hear about how everything goes!

peter and joe!!

whoa...that may be on par with the drama between dev and satyan...

megan im sure youll have more fun with the christening after the party :)

i did talk to dev about my bday and the night of my test...that talk was wednesday night...i basically told him that he is my best friend and knows me better than anyone else at this point in my life but at the same time there is a new guy in my life who i want to spend time with also and i want satyan at my bday celebrations..he was hurt but basically said he would have to think about whether or not he could handle coming out. but i said that i would love to have lunch with him, or even hang out with him after work and then meet up with you guys/satyan...but who knows...he got all dramatic and was like well ill come, give you your present, and leave so you can have fun with the people you care about. i told him that was unfair and he knew it....

good morning!

hi ladies - i'm in such a great mood today! i'm finally feeling alive (even though my throat still hurts a lot), i'm leaving work early (in exactly 2 hours, actually), and i'll be in miami tonight!

megan - good luck moving! we got lucky we had peter to help us move. poor guy, he did so much for us. but a party to reward your movers sounds like fun. there's nothing like beer and pizza after manual labor. that's how we rewarded rupa and jonathan for helping us paint our apartment :)

speaking of peter, i think he's going to be in miami for mari's birthday, so looks like we'll finally be in the same place for an extended time. hope that goes well. i still want joe to come with me that weekend. i'm gonna try to convince him. . .

nush, i'm glad satyan makes you so happy! i really like him. megan, i can't wait for you to meet him so nush can have your seal of approval :)

ok, back to work (since i'm only here for 2 more hours. . .)

moving

i hate packing up, but i love the idea of unpacking :)
my dad was going to help me because he has the last two weeks of june/first weekend of july off but then he started planning a trip. but edgar assured me that i had enough people that would be willing to help me move - and a friend with a truck who would either gladly help or would just loan us his car :) so maybe the very first day i move in i'll christen the place with a party by thanking my movers with beer :)

did you talk to dev about your bday yet? is he still going to go out, even with satyan there? 'cause that is going to be super weird.

ill keep blogging today to entertain you :)

thats exciting that you are going to look at a new place. i HATE moving though. i think it would be easier in suburbia, but in nyc it totally sucks. itll be fun to wander around with edgar and look :)

i started looking into that trip with ellen to turks and caicos, flight is like 500...we were going to go labor day weekend but satyans bday is on saturday and i know its really far away and a lot can happen between now and then but either way i dont want to go away that weekend anymore. so she and i may go in august sometime. i love planning get aways from here! i love nyc and all but still...

i'm glad you're happy :)

i can't wait to meet satyan - he seems to be a really good fit for you :)

i have a really boring day today . . . and i've been here since a little after 8 . . . so everyone post something to keep me entertained :) :) :)

i'm officially looking at apartments starting this weekend. i'm going to go walk dogs first thing saturday morning and then pick edgar up, go out for breakfast and then walk around looking at houses and calling the numbers on the "for rent" signs in front of them. i'm super excited!

busy week

even i didnt post to the blog yesterday! and i always take time out to at least write something!!!

anyway last night i had a lot of fun. i found out at like 2 pm that it was my tamil bday (not sure if you guys remember me "celebrating" but usually id just go home and my mom makes my favorite indian food for dinner. and sashank and i have the same star bday, so its that much more special) anyway, satyan took me to taco bell and milk and cookies to celebrate :) milk and cookies is soooo cute! megan we def should go when you come. its a small little place that has just cookies, and drinks (milk, coffee, hot chocolate, etc). and the cookies are really good. i loved it. we came home, i studied, then went to bed.

im pretty sure he is slowly becoming officially my boyfriend...dev and i had a talk wednesday where i told him i wanted to seriously date satyan, basically ive stopped talking to the slew of other people that were a part of my life as soon as i broke up with dev..and satyan makes me so incredibly happy :) anyway i love that he isnt putting any pressure on me and that he isnt forcing me to put a label on it...but i think we both know where it is headed....i think i knew that a long time ago. i always knew he wasnt a rebound person - the rest of the guys were - they were just fillers to make not want to get back together with dev but satyan was always different...anyway like i said no need for a label just yet :)

happy thursday!

the end of the week is near . . . i'm pretty excited.
that's all i've got.

yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!

my tickets are puchased!

i officially bought my tickets to nyc. leaving here june 9th and flying back june 12th

feel better!

take more advil and start on echenesia (i have no idea how to spell that...)

rupa, sorry for ruining gilmore girls for you! it was good, though, you should watch it.

meg, i agree - the was she proposed was really cute. i still think rory's silly for dropping out. if i remember correctly, she didn't say "i want to take a year off and then i'll come back". she just said "i'm not going back to yale, i dont know what i want to do".

nush - hope you're having a better day at work.

i think i'm going to go home soon. i'm still not feeling better and i just want to lay down. and it just seems pointless to sit here staring blankly at my computer. . .

not better and still hate being here...

last night i was so frustrated with my hand/work/studying so satyan came over and we went for a long walk around the apt area - went out for pizza, got ice cream. it was absolutely wonderful. then we stayed up till 1230 talking about life/work/us/etc..it was a really nice conversation :) i asked him if it bothered him that i wasnt committing to being with him yet when he and i both know i spend all my free time with him and that we clearly enjoy each others company a lot..he said no. he was like even if it did bother me i wouldnt let it until after your test/after your bday/etc. he was like its been a while that we have been "dating" or whatever you call this but its just too fun and too good to expect something of it right now. i just want to give you time...he did express that it scared him that dev and i are so close still...the way he expresses things like this dont make me feel guilty/dont make me want to just get rid of him...they make me like him even more...

so the whole who is coming to the bday celebrations - satyan is def coming. and im going to tell dev that satyan will be there, and you can come if you want but you cant cause a scene....

gilmore girls 2

rory didn't "drop out" as her mom kept saying (sidestepping the spelling of her name) i don't think rupa dropped out of MIT - schools anticipate people wanting time off and its provided for . . . she can withdraw for a semester and then go back without having to reapply. and anyway - i like the idea of rory not being perfect. i think mitchum is right, i don't think she'd make a good reporter. she's wrapped up in the research, but doesn't seem like she's hardcore enough to actually go for something. and they let her get the ungettable guy, she can't be perfect.

and the proposal made me really happy because of the way it happened - i think it fit in perfectly to her personality that she doesn't realize she loves a man when he does something dashingly romantic, she realizes when he's going off on a rant which makes him seem a bit crazy . . .

ahhhh

i was just gonna type... "don't tell me anything" but i missed my chance. yay! lorelai proposed to luke? that is happy-making :)

so sorry you feel like shit, jules. you should go home early!! the work will be here another day.. sleep is more important :)

i feel like i haven't been reading the blog in days.. i need to catch up and catch you all up on my life. megan- just a few weeks till we see you!!

gilmore girls

it made you happy that rory dropped out of yale? i guess lora lai (how the heck do you spell her name?) proposing to luke was cute.

i feel like shit today. i was fine yesterday, but this morning i woke up with a terrible headache, my throat hurts, and my whole body aches. thank God for tylenol - now i'm feeling a little bit better. i'm definitely going hom early if this keeps up, though. . .

helllooooo

sorry about your hand nush i hope its feeling a little better today :(

i've been at work at 8:30 every morning this week! that may not sound early to you guys - but its about an hour before i'm typically here . . .

anyone watch gilmore girls? it made me very very happy :)

where is everyone?

i need entertainment!

urgh

megan not sure if you heard this yet, but i burned my hand on sat pretty badly...i was cooking and touched this ceramic spatula thing that i left on the stove by accident, didnt realize how hot it was till it burned all my nerve cells and scalded all my fingers :( it was a miserable weekend after that...dev came over sat night to take care of me - i couldnt even open the tylonel bottle or get ice out of the ice tray. anyway i took yesterday off cause it is still throbbing, im here now, but may go home early because all this typing is aggravating it. to top it off satyan was disappointed that i had dev come over and didnt even call him till sunday :( he was nice about it - expressed that he was sad, and that he just wanted me to know that he would have dropped everything to come over...but i still felt really bad :-/ i miss my family a lot in times like this...i cant stop thinking about my cousin in vancouver and imagining what he must have gone through :-/

anyway, im at work now...most people are out today at offsites somewhere or another. i was supposed to go to jersey this morning but totally forgot..oh well.

hello ladies

i really don't like mondays, especially monday mornings. i had a nice weekend, though.

megan, good luck with the kids. yea, i def don't want to have them anytime soon, either. as much as i love hanging out with julia, 5 hours every other week is more than enough for me. i need my naps on the weekends!

happy monday . . .

i was here bright and early. too early really . . . ryan asked me if i'd drive him to school early (7:30 instead of waiting for the 8am bus) then announced at 7:25 that actually 8am was fine, but could i drive him and his friend so they didn't have to take the bus?

i don't want to have kids any time soon. ryan - who is supposed to be the sweet one - keeps trying to play innocent and dumb and get away with things and it started to get annoyed that i'm catching on. george - who is supposed to be the one giving me all the problems - broke up with his gf of 2 years recently and instead of giving me problems, is my biggest ally AND is going through that wonderful part of high school where when taking about his life says things like "i have no friends, but i'm ok with that" yet has an endless amount of names he lists off for who he is hanging out with . . . god, i like being a 23 year old who is allowed to be completely self centered because the only person i am responsible for is me.

and i got a sunburn yesterday. not a big one . . . mostly just color on my arms but i look ridiculous naked because you can see the perfect outline of the tank top i was wearing . . .

i want to go to sleep . .

hi :)

hello girls! hope you are all enjoying your friday... i'm having a fairly relazing day. i just went to a lunch with a candidate and now i'm uploading pics to the web. i finally organized most of my pictures in one place- gallery.rups.net so you can go see some good old ones :) most of these you've probably seen before.

this weekend should be relaxing.. i don't have a lot planned.

i do...

but it isnt nearly as effective as having you give it to me!! but i did buy liquigels for that reason :)

my only exciting plan is going to the cardinals game tonight. tomorrow im taking my first practice test, then at night i just want to watch hotel rwanda and relax...sunday another test, then my dad is coming for dinner.

my cousins wedding is (was since india is so far ahaed) today. i talked to one of my cousins this morning on IM and she said it was really fun :) I cant wait to see them all next March!!

I need to plan a vacation!!!!

do you have advil?

sorry you don't feel well :(
but i'm glad you look nice! i'm wearing my new cute pink shoes :) and a tank top that i think is too low cut - but the person working at h&m and jess convinced me now, my weird bone didn't stick out too much and yes, my chest was big enough to pull off shirt that dropped low . .

I second that

nush looks great with all her nice new gear! i especially like the sunglasses ;)

it's so quiet here at work today. . . it's kind of nice. i'm just looking forward to the end of the day so i can go to the gym, then go home. megan, my hair is super blonde! the hairdresser went like 2 shades lighter than the picture i showed her, so i was really surprised when i saw the results. i think i'll like it better once i have more of a tan.

ok ladies, hope you all have a great friday! does anyone have any exciting weekend plans?

i look hot if i do say so myself :)

dev and i are going to the cardinals game today - so im wearing all the stuff he has bought me recently - new jeans and lacoste shirt from atl, my new sunglasses for my bday :) and i straightened my hair...except for the fact that i want to rip my uterus out i feel really pretty :)

vets

i talked to the human resources lady for the monroe county vet group and 1. no volunteers 2. sure, i can have a part time job . . . but it will have to include a couple of weekday 5:00pm to 9:00pm shifts . . . she'll get back to me. that was monday morning. so . . .i don't know . . .

wow the link is detailed!

i just read the one from two weeks ago that i read. how does that guy do that??? what a waste of his time :) although works for me. we wont have that problem going forward since we will have tivo :)

lake house :)

i think itll be way too hard to find two weekends in the summer all 4 of us are free. so lake house in july, and rochester in sept.

i know its two months away, but already thats the only weekend we were all free!

my list of people i want to be there is really short...

rupa - how much is the haircut with viginias apprentice? i made an apt with someone ellen goes to, but something closer to the apt is way more appealing..esp if she is the apprentice of someone youd drive 4 hours for multiple times!!

the link did work - i was just looking in the episode guide and that hasnt been updated...i also havent spent much time looking so i may just be missing the whole thing!

thats good the presentation is over. whats going on with the search for a job or internship of some sorts with a vet?

hello all

that weekend is fine with me for whatever it is we are doing (i thought lake house that week and then rochester in sept)

i presented . . . i didn't do amazing but i think i did quite well for what i had to work with (no immunology background, not enough time with my boss, bad data)

now i'm going to update the freezer inventory. or pee. maybe pee first and then update the inventory . . . (i think my mind has shut off for the week)

link should work

that's where i read this week's summary! i liked that they take you through scene by scene so you can feel like you were really watching :)

i heard you are gonna be all TIVOed up by the weekend too. yay!

july 15th is fine with me.. although it's more than 2 months away! are we lake housing or going to rochester that weekend?

you will all be so proud.. i have officially scheduled a hair appointment with someone in NYC.. not Virginia (her name) in Boston. now the woman who will be cutting my hair was the apprentice of Virginia.. so i don't feel like i'm cheating.. but she works in soho! i'm going there next wednesday.. and nush, probably coming over to visit right after. happy thursday!

DH

rups, that link you sent me wasnt updated - it was mising the last two weeks (the only two that i missed!) but the episode summary on abc.com is pretty thorough. i just read that. i should have watched it on sunday! oh well...

megan and rupa is july 15-17 ok with you guys??

fleet week! i love SATC....

http://www.jimsdeli.com/events/fleet-week/default.htm

that works for me

july 15-17 is fine for me. i'm heading out not to get my hair done. hope you all have a good rest of the day :)

july 15-17 then?

july has so many bdays - 10th is toral, 24 is ellen, and 31 is jackie - and they all fall on different weekends so that takes up all the weekends!

weekend

i do have a wedding august 6th . . .
i want you guys to come visit, but i'd rather go to the lake house :) and you guys will want to come in september (hint hint) so if we want to do lake house in july . . .
or late august is fine :) the water will be warm after the whole summer of sun on it :)

can't that weekend

aug 12-14 i might be going camping with julia and the family center. . .

lake house

I hate that weekends already book up for the summers (and i know julie esp doesnt like thinking this far ahead:)) and its only May, but I wanted to pick a weekend for the lake house...Aug 12-14??

I only can do one weekend in July, but I think we should go to Rochester to see megans apt then (July 15-18), and in Aug I can only do the 5-7 (but i think megan has a wedding to go to), or the 26-28 but thats so far away!

my answer

maybe i'm less selfish than you guys. . .i'd fix the political and social situation in colombia.

ok, maybe it's a little bit selfish since i'm not ending world hunger or anything, but. . .

then after that, i thought about more selfish things. i decided i'd want to be a professional athlete - i'd love to play basketball, even though the wnba doesn't receive that much recognition.

nush - i don't think you're manipulative. but you're right, i don't know what you do to guys. whatever it is, jackie is the same way. she gets guys obsessed with her for years and years. that's too much drama for my tastes. and yea, i don't like seeing a guy crying. maybe it's because i'm not a crier myself, but i don't know . . .

nah

on the question though . . . my first gut reaction was "get into vet school" . . . apparently we're both selfish :) it took me a second to be like wait. i should respond with "cure world hunger" or "end war" . . . but still, kind of want to just get into vet school . . .

that was supposed to be i not im

Girls

:)

im really dont even think im manipulative - am i???

too good to be true . . .

you are just too adorable for guys to handle.
really, you should be registered with the gov't as a mind control agent :)

what a great question: ID GO OUT AND BUY MY ROOMMATES SO MANY DRINKS THAT WE WERE ALL WASTED

are you kidding?? if i had a written note telling me that no matter what i wouldnt fail this test id prob offer to buy chris drinks!! :)

i know the question was probably meant to be more broad than such a narrow view of the world, but too bad - my view of the world is pretty narrow right now..this is the time of my studying where i dont like it cause everything else seems more fun and im just memorizing/learning. up until this point i liked all the studying...

on coworkers: he didnt say no cause he didnt want to look bad or make me look bad. in retrospect, he should have said no, and i wouldnt have cared but he didnt know that...i actually am better - im not going to talk to larry about it, i am still thinking about another job - not cause of this but because of the environment here - it is a revolving door, seems like its my turn pretty soon...

on dev - julie i agree, but im really not leading him on - i tell him all the time that i dont want to date him and i tell him that in 3 months i may not want to date him either- he says he wants to be my friend, which i dont understnad and clearly he isnt able to do that anyway since he gets so sad when he has to leave...

and megan - i dont think he has lost individuality or self respect - i think he just doesnt want to lose me - i dont think there is a loss of self respect because of how he is acting. i know a lot of girls cant handle crying, but i cry so much im used to it - and sure a lot of times its "too much" or i dont know what to say but i dont hold that against him...i kind of like that he is open with me. this isnt like the mike comment - its more drastic than that - he doesnt want to date anyone else he doesnt want to meet anyone else. i cant figure out for the life of me what i do to these guys but i keep thinking about this, mike, baba...

edgar agrees with anusha

on the coworkers/splitting the bill thing . . . as a person who doesn't drink at all, he HATES the "oh, let's just split it evenly" thing . . . AND while he would gladly pay for me any day of the week, it is not because i am female. it is because i'm his female. otherwise, we are all equals - those hos better cash up their own 'cause he ain't paying :) (i told him the story last night and before i got to the part of so dev got to pay he was like so he said no right? 'cause there is no way he should have had to throw down his credit card for that)

on the dev thing . . . do you ever thing this in between period is going to turn your stomach on dev? i just find it hard to be in an equal and loving relationship with a person that basically given up all personal control to you. think about mike - did you ever contemplate going back to him after the whole "oh yeah, i have a girlfriend but i'd break up with her if you told me to" situation? it just feels a little like his throwing away his individuality/dignity/last shred of self respect and personally - that don't make me get all hot

and on a final note . . .

what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? (found on a coffee mug for sale at the coffee house near my apartment)

not that i know anything, but . . .

do you think it's kind of leading dev on by hanging out with him and spending so much time with him when you're so sure that you don't want to get back together with him right now, and he's completely in love with you . . ..

are you satisfied with your conversation with chris? do you think clearing up things with larry would help make things better?

g'morning

hello ladies. i went to bed super-duper early yesterday (like 10:30!!!), so i came into work at like 7 and i feel wide awake for the first time in days. i'm leaving work early (around 3:30ish) to go get my highlights done (yay!).

nush, how are things at work? did you talk to larry?

megan, almost ready for your presentation?

rupa, hi :)

update on my drama

chris came over and asked if i could talk to him just now. we talked for like 30 min. he basically was like i had no negative intentions, i just didnt want to diss dev by assuming since im older i should pay for him. i told him that maybe it would be better if an option were presented instead of hey split the bill with us - if he had said you can split with us or itemize and pay what you like...he agreed and he was like i dont think there is one solution to this, its not like we were trying to make you and dev pay. he was like ive always paid for girls in a social setting - since i was 20, ill do it when im 40 and ill do it when im 60. (obviosuly, he is pretty sleezy). anyway there is no real solution and you cant retroactively fix something. he brought up the xmas party - and he was like i had to foot a 500 bill that night cause noone paid. and iw as like you know what you made me pay 20 even though id idnt have a single drink. he shrugged his shoulders and was like but at the end of the night i paid 500 and i didnt drink that much.

but like i said you cant fix these things anymore. i have to learn to accept peoples appologies when there was a mistake or a bad situation that no one knows what the outcome should have been etc etc...right??

and on to drama #2. Dev. He is reallly trying to be my friend and I know it is eating him up inside. He bought me the nice sunglasses yesterday for my bday. and we came home, i studied, we ate dinner, and just had a good time. but then he got into this i love you lalala stuff. and i feel really bad for him, i just cant be his friend if all this stuff comes up almost every time we hang out. and then i feel worse cause i want to just be his friend, i just cant listen to the same stuff over and over again with him, esp not at 1130 at night. i made him leave but then had a nightmare that he got hurt and woke up terrfiied at 1230, i called him and he was crying sitting on the stoop of his apt :( i used to think a part of me wanted to give it/him another chance, but i really dont. not now. i want to see what dating someone else would be like. i need to do that. and i need to do all that after 3 weeks when the test is over.

jules i agree with the bday plan of telling EVERYONE to not say anything about any stories invovling me, boys, not being home, not studying, etc, etc!! I know its hard since there are so many stories to talk about :) but we have to try really hard. im going to invite steve and drew my coworkers, so hopefully they can entertain dev a lot, although i think drew will be more interested in all my hot friends :) anyway i def want dev to be there - he has gone through a lot of planning and thinking about my bday, presents, clothes, stuff like that - i cant leave him out on the most important day of the year for me...i just need to not talk about my bday at all to satyan anymore and maybe he will forget about it (which is highly unlikely.....but maybe i just need to tell him he cant come out on friday...)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

say something to larry

if its going to eat at you . . .
is larry included in work place gossip?

let the bday celebrations begin :)

exactly one month to go - and dev is getting me my present after work today (fancy sunglasses that were approved by rupa and julie during lunch) and i just made a hair appointment to get my haircut where ellen goes for thurs june 9 at 6 pm :) i cant wait till this test is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

obviously i still havent said anything to larry...

my 2 cents

i think you should talk to larry first. if you're not satisfied with that, then i'd go to HR. it just seems better to try to resolve things directly with him first. maybe you guys can clear everything up without having to get more people involved. . .

yup

im leaning towards just walking into larrys office (allens boss) and saying i just wanted to clear up my side of the story so you know what im upset about. it isnt necessarily that dev and i had to pay for the drinks/food because i understand and abide by the no expensing stuff when you are with coworkers policy. but what bothered me was that dev and i had to pay while lisa, and maura, and the girl who works for john didnt have to. thats not fair. and the part i am most frustrated about it when you left dev and i both saw you give chris money for your portion and the other people who left with you - that money stayed in chris's pocket. when the bill came he asked my friend to put down a credit card because "the men can pay for the babes". that is a direct sexist quote if you ask me....

i havent gotten the guts to actually go say this to him, and maybe i should just tell it to HR...

wait

he pocketed money?
you are getting screwed - where is your three day long sheryl crow concert full of drinking and fun that ray heard about???
i don't think you are being childish. screw what the "word" is around the water cooler. do you have to go out with these people? i think it sucks to feel stuck in that work environment that doesn't have fun it in, but these people sound like they suck big time. i think you need to spread the word that he pocketed money and maybe these people that are jumping to conclusions should sit back and think about it and gang up on chris.

IHTFP

i never thought id be saying that after college...

steve and i just talked, apparently the "word" around here is that i was childish and that there is no reason for me to have caused a scene. he told me that no one knows that chris pocketed the money from llarry and he asked if i wanted him to tell allen about it. im just so frustrated that everyone thinks that - at the time i was upset about the splitting of the bill in general, but now that i think about the only thing i am really upset about is that dev and i were paying, yet the pretty blond girls dont have to pay? and mainly the fact that he pocketed the money - which i only realized too late to say anything about it.

good thing im going shopping now with dev, julie, and hopefully rupa....

Girls

welcome back rups!

in response to your email: how ironic, i suggested her ex ray from KS :) she is moving to boston in two months and going to sloan...plus i wouldnt want to inflate her ego anymore!

I had such a good morning today - satyan came over yesterday to watch 24 - which was nice, cause i actually studied a lot and went to bed relatively early. we were both up at like 545, so i got dressed early and made it to starbucks by 815. i studied there for an hour and then came to work :)

i'm done with work

i don't want to be here any more . . .
but i don't get to leave :(

i laugh too but its really not funny!!!

i think well let dev come to whatever on friday and satyan on sat...i think ive successfully stifled all other boys in my life :)

haha

i think we can just warn EVERYBODY before hand not to say a single word about nush and other boys. that's what i've learned to do around jackie. i never know what she tells who at work, so i've learned not to ask any questions and to just play dumb. somehow i've managed to not stick my foot in my mouth too badly. . .

that sounds great (the dates not the weekend)

im going to get my haicut on thurs before you get here then :) jules i think im going to go where ellen goes - i loove her haircut, although she pulls of having cool bangs hanging in her face, that would drive me nuts..so we shall see.

megan - do you and edgar ever spend nights together and not sleep together? like whole nights? i mean you do it when you have your period right, why not on days like yesterday? how are things with jessie and him sleeping over/ just not talking about it?

dev asked today what i was planning for my bday :( i told him you were coming thurs and we were going to do a lot of "girls night" things...and that he and i should go out on wed just the two of us...he wrote back and said "i learned from last year that your bday is really important to you and it is to me also just like all your other frineds. i understnad that you have other people you want to spend your day with i jsut hope that i can be one of them..." im just terrified of situations like the one with evy at laguardia grill that time!!!

nushie's weekend

i think i'd go from june 9th, arriving at 8:30pm and fly back at 10:35pm on june 12th (so, thursday to sunday)
is that ok?

my weekend . . .

it was good and bad.

friday was really fun - we went to the hot dog stand (gen, courtney, matt, and shelley) and ate outside. then gen courtney and i cut out of work early (sort of, i had to come back and finish something - but i had an hour to kill) and went to this bar/restaurant called the distillery. we split a pitcher and two appetizers and sat on their outside deck. i did NOT want to leave . . . but i went back to the lab and finished up and then i got to drive to buffalo (an hour and 20ish minutes) to go to my 2nd cousin's (daniel) first bday. i also bought a present for his older brother - who was born our freshman year (nicky). it was nice, it was just my cousin and her husband, her parents, and our grandparents. i got home around 11ish. saturday, i walked dogs and then hung out with edgar - we walked around outside first at the public market then along the erie canal. saturday i just vegged and watched movies by myself. sunday was the pisser. i got up late, which was nice. and went to the gym, which was great. and then called edgar - edgar had already worked himself up into an angry because he felt that he was being put on hold until jess's shift started. this was sort of correct, but mostly wrong as her shift started over an hour after i called him. so, he gave me bullshit excuses as to why he wasn't ready to hang out then. then another bullshit excuse two hours later - which included don't sit around waiting for me today. so i got all worked up and annoyed. by the time he called me to say lets hang out now, we walked around in silence for a couple of minutes and then he started filling in the silence with mindless chatter and was like ok, i said something now your turn. which i immediately responded with nope, i don't have to - its my turn to throw the 5 year old tantrum. eventually, we started talking about it because i was too annoyed to keep silent. everything was better until the very end of the night because i wanted him to sleep over and he is now on a celibacy kick i guess until july 1st (or until he explodes) something about if i can't get it whenever i want it, then i'll just stop having it completely so i won't be disappointed. it better not last.

this thursday is my presentation. i am not ready, but i've given up caring. i'll pull something together before then and i don't care if its less than quality - this is just a job, one with an expiration date from the very beginning.

and i slept with the window wide open last night and now i feel all phelmy . . .

boys

no bf still :) although i really like him...

quick summary for megan and rupa - basically dev told me that he realized that i need to date someone else before/if i ever were to go back to him because otherwise ill always have this nagging feeling of what if i had dated satyan...so i was like "are you saying i have your blessing" and he was like no ill go crazy but i think you should do it anyway...it was weird...anyway i told jules that after hooking up with chike i think i have it out of my system and i think i want to date satyan...ive dated all those other people from weeks ago and none of them make me feel like he does...but then again i just dont want a boyfriend now - i want to just study and prob enjoy most of the summer without a specified committment...

megan - do you know if you are going to fly here on thurs or friday for my bday?

ditto

no matter how much sleep i get, i always feel tired! i had a pretty good weekend. friday night joe and i hung out at my place - we ordered food and watched a movie while anusha and chike were hooking up ;) he went home around midnight because he wasn't feeling well, so then i went to a club with jackie and bryan and bryan. saturday i went to the movies with julia (we saw robots, which i actually thought was really cute). then jackie and i went to new jersey - she was going to see her cousin, who happens to live like 5 minutes away from joe, so i went with her to hang out with joe. i went out to dinner with joe and his mom - it was fun. his mom's so cute. his mom and i were ganging up on him, so i don't think he was so excited about that. . .after dinner we hung out at his place, then the poor guy had to drive me home at like 1am (the drive's over an hour, so he didn't get home until after 3. . .).

yesterday was pretty relaxing. i went out to dinner with anusha and her fam (minus her mom, who's in india). it was fun, i haven't hung out with her dad in a while. her dad's so cute - he gave all the girls (anusha, kerry, and me) mother's day presents!

nush, how was hanging out with satyan last night? are you going to date him now that you have dev's permission?

rupa, hope you're having fun! i don't think you're getting back until tonight. . .

meg, how was your weekend??? you have that presentation or something coming up, right?

monday mornings

im always so tired on mondays, actually scratch that, im just always tired.

the weekend was fun :) chike was here. i thought hed spend more time with other friends but im not sure if he didnt call them or they were busy or he just wanted to hook up with me :) but he only spent one day with friends while i studied. we hooked up :) it was fun, really fun. but then sunday sucked cause i just didnt feel like hooking up - it wasnt cause i hadnt been drinking (cause we had hooked up sober) i think it was the thought that he was leaving and i knew id be spending time with satyan later and i just felt dirty :) so needless to say it was more awkward with him when i was firm about not wanting to hook up...

rupa - i didnt want DH, so one of these days if i have caught up on more studying id love to come over and catch up with you and the last two weeks of DH..i hope you had a fun trip!

TG For Megan :)

I just got another box of coffee from you meg!!! Fedex only forwarded one of the packages orginally so I called to have the other package sent here and it was 4 more bags of coffee :)

im drinking it now, it tastes SOOOOO good. youre the best :)

TGIF

its almost over and then you have a weekend away from it! :)

:)

i love your psychoanalysis of people megan.

its so quiet and miserable around here today. all i hear is some buzzing noise in the lights which is really loud. i hate it. why do i cause scenes like that?

i can beat you

gen and courtney both have violent mood swings that they in no way attempt to curb . . . like, oh, i'm pms-y so instead of recognizing that this is somewhat hormonal and not the fault of the people around me, i'm going to wallow in it and snap at anyone who speaks to me and generally radiate i hate life. at least gen apologizes the next day when she knows she's been super out of line . . .

james must have been denied some serious love and attention as a child because he believes everyone is 1. dumber than him 2. out to get him - it makes it rather annoying to be around him when he has a basic question to ask you, but doesn't want to reveal his actual purpose so he asks you questions surrounding the issue instead of just straight out saying it.

katy is a bad stereotype - she is lazy and messy and then turns around and acts like everyone should bend over backwards for her.

roberto was dropped on his head as a child. its the only explanation.

dietmar is german. he's very abrupt and argumentative and doesn't shower regularly.

i like pranav and anagha . . . brown people are nice :)

jonathon is the computer guy who when you ask him a question turns bright red and can't make eye contact to save his life. oh, and he never actually seems to have the answers to computer questions . . .

dee is the project nurse she is nosy and generally messes things up but sticking her nose in it . . . oh and she's an anger person and not super smart . .

and i think that is the majority of the people i get to surround myself with everyday . .

oh! and my cubby buddy matt . . . he's great :) (he's married to a brown person)

ok, hours have passed. i went and had lunch (hot dogs from the hot dog cart, very yummy) and now i'm back for an afternoon of work!!

ugh

i got to work like an hour ago and all i want to do is go home. i really need to stop drinking so much. went to a jp morgan cocktail party with jacob last night, which was fun. then went to ruby falls with jackie and bryan and bryan's friend bryan. i got WASTED. i saw peter there. apparently i was mean to him at the end of the night, but i don't remember that. why do i get amnesia whenever i drink? i just feel like a retard now.

yup

our xmas party. it was so much fun then it totally sucked. i didnt even have a drink and the same guy (chris, a sales guy) made me give him 20 bucks to cover for drinks. i hate this place sometimes.

it happened before

don't you have other stories of rich people being stingy?
stop going out with your work people and stick with jackie's crew - they know how to treat ladies ;)

i took the moment :)

and to further that memory, chike is coming tonight, ok not as nice or cool as mark but itll do ;)

i had a lot of fun with dev, ellen, j+J, last night, but i had a horrible night overall. the quick version is i hate working at a place that has no fun events that the bank will pay for. it seems stupid but i got really mad last night when we went out, the bill was 400. i spent 20 bucks on drinks, dev spent 10, we shared some food. the "guys" mind you the other 3 are MDs here and are in their late 40s made dev split the bill with them. i was really upset. why should dev pay for the other bofa girls to go out and drink? it wasnt the money it was more the principal of the whole thing. i hated it. i hated the impression the bank made on dev - not that he is a huge customer or anything but again its the principal.

so im going to make some senseo coffee now to cheer myself up :)

random dates

i have pictures in a little photo displace thing on my desk and the one i have it opened to right now is one of the senior ball group shots. it has a date stamp on it . . . 5/2/03 . . . two years ago this week we went to our senior ball . . . let's all take a moment and remember that night :)

good morning all!

nushie - you are welcome for the coffee :)

i hope everyone is feeling better - i am. apparently all i need was 6 hours on the couch not moving :) actually, i did move. i went to the movies to see an AWFUL waste of time movie - wedding date. you'd think with such an easy basic premise, they could watch pretty woman a couple of times, take notes, and figure out how to do it better. nope, not so much.

now i need to make a decent effort at my lab presentation (which i worked on for 2 hours yesterday just to have my computer keep crashing until courtney and gen told me to go home because i kept whining about my weird pain) but i think i figured out how to get around my crashing computer . . . so we'll see.

and tonight i get to go to my baby cousin's 1st birthday! i got him a cute outfit and baby swimsuit thats bright orange and looks like little tiny board shorts :) i got my other cousin - his older brother - a kid set of golf clubs.

ok, time to do work!

MEGAN YOURE THE BEST!!!!

a little detective work got walmart.com to tell me it was you :) Thanks!!! I cant wait to make coffee later today!

senseo

SOMEONE SENT ME 4 PACKAGES OF SENSEO COFFEE but NO NAME ON THE CARD?!?!?!?!? who was it???? i cant wait!!

:) :) :) :) :) :)

sick

how are we all sick? ive had a pounding headache all day and it wont go away! although it did go away just now during the 30 min i spent at gucci and henri bendel :) i love working here.

i vote for a cheap hotel in london :) i get a feeling this is all wishful thinking that itll actualyl play out...

happy cinco de mayo!

with all the traveling I've been doing between nyc and miami lately, I don't think I can handle thinking about any more vacations right now. jackie and I definitely want to go somewhere warm for labor day. keep me posted on what you guys think about doing . . . it'd be fun to go somewhere together.

megan - good luck with all your work and I hope you feel better!

I'm tired today, too, and I'm still feeling a little sick. and I'm expected to party all weekend (starting tonight, of course). I can't wait til this weekend so I can sleep in. . .

makes so much more sense!

i went back and read the original entry to see why i was convinced i saw turkey - apparently my mind reads what it wants, regardless of what's written :)

i think the london trip sounds super fun :) are we staying at a hostel? cheap hotel?

whatever the organ is on the right hand side just at the bottom of the rib cage - that hurts right now :( i think it was something to do with coffee because it started hurting mid way through my double tall mocha. honestly, if it weren't for the experiments i have to develop this afternoon (which i think i messed up a little) i would go home.

i think its an island in the carribbean

not in turkey! :) and when we figure it out, you could always come megan!!

although i was also thinking it could be fun if the 4 of us (plus whatever other people) went to london for a long weekend - thurs- monday or something. julie rupa and i were talking about it on the cruise and i think it could be really fun...if we plan ahead it wouldnt be too expensive either (well if the dollar ever rallies that is...its now like 2:1!!!)...

hawaii?? turkey?????

why is my amazing adventure nyc?

good morning

rupa your trip to chicao sounds so fun! i def want to go to chicago sometime soon, its been a long time since ive been there!

ellen and i are thinking of going some place warm but i think it wont be till labor day, so jules if you and jacks dont go to hawaii and go somewhere closer, we may join in :) i love planning fun trips like that! her idea was turks and kaicos (sp?).

im really tired today..i think i need a starbucks run...i dont know how im going to survive being out tonight...

airmail me some of whatever you've got

. . . so i can stay home sick next week.

my boss is on crack. i'm presenting next week at lab meeting - but she won't be there and she doesn't have any time to help me between now and then and the two weeks she could be there for lab meeting, the people def can't switch with me. so, she'll be emailing me some data (hopefully soon, but probably not until tomorrow since she is doing so much she forgot to yesterday) and oh yeah, turns out there is a bone marrow sample today so if i could just go ahead and coat a plate (which has to sit for 2 hours) and take care of that today and tomorrow that would be great. i think its a weekly thing, so there probably will be a call like this next week since she won't plan ahead and when they page her, it'll be a suprise so the day before my lab meeting, i'll be scrabbling around setting up an experiment like i am today. i am giving myself a headache and i have a feeling it won't go away until next friday.

hi guys

sorry I've been so lost, but it's great to read about all the fun lake house plans! the past couple of days have been hectic. the weekend in miami was awesome! the wedding was beautiful - I can't the first one in our high school crew tied the knot already! scary. anyways, she looked beautiful, the reception was so much fun, everything was perfect. I got back monday early afternoon, exhausted, and then I was buys trying to catch up on some work. we had our big department dinner monday night. basically, our whole 25-person department went to a restaurant and drank and ate and drank and drank and drank for hours. we spent $800 on food and like $3000 on drinks! needless to say, I was pretty wasted. most of us got into work yesterday just in time for our 11am weekly meeting, where they announced my promotion (yay!) along with a bunch of other promotions and changes in the department. all day yesterday was pretty much worthless, since we were all hungover and/or still drunk. 3 or 4 people called in sick. . .

and today I've been busy and I feel like crap. jackie's been sick for the past couple of days, so I think I might be coming down with whatever she has. I can't believe it's only 3pm - I definitely feel like it should be 6pm by now. today has been the slowest day ever.

meg, I'm so glad edgar's bday celebration went well. you guys are so cute! nush, I'm glad you enjoyed new orleans. rupa, I have nothing to say since I see you all the time :)

yay!

megan, i would love to play your boyfriend for a weekend :) although i probably won't put out ;)

things are good here.. i'm going to chicago this weekend to surprise my parents. they are going to chi and madison WI for a week b/c they have lots of friends in chicago and my cousin in WI is having a baby. they think i am too busy :) but since it's mom day on sunday and their anniversary on friday, i thought it'd be worth surprising them. i also got an INSANE deal for the weekend.. plane for $120 and a rental car for $10 a day (LOVE LOVE LOVE being 25!!!)

other than that.. work is fun but busy. julie got PROMOTED.. i don't know if that's blog-public yet but she's basically gonna get MORE money for doing what she's been doing. (she's been doing work that's ahead of her title for some time).

ummm.. can't think of what else is going on. :)

rupa's a great date :)

she was my other half of the "couple" for the cruise and i loved it!! although we both totally sucked when we played "newly weds"....we need to work on that :)

there will def be lots of you meeting satyan - ask julie, he is over all the time :) i love it. he is in london now and calls once a day after all his work is done which is around 5. im sooo jealous - it sounds so fun to hear all about it! and when he started telling me all the touristy things he was doing i kept interjecting and saying well if you were at that spot did you do blah blah blah and told him some obscure thing that all toursits should do, and for most of the things he had done exactly what i said! i need to move to london and be a tour guide there...im really good at that!!

makes sense about edgar :) i hope there is a bit more drinking and a lot less anusha looking like a slut this year at the lake house....but other than that i was totally happy with last years events :)

i'm all for girls night out!

although i want to meet satyan . . . maybe there could be a boy lunch? me and rupa could be a couple (um, the HOTTEST couple) and nush and satyan and jules and joe? and the rest of the time just girls?

edgar doesn't like drinking and he doesn't like getting dressed up to go out. i know he'd do whatever you (anusha) wanted to do because its your birthday - but i think it would be easier on my mental state if i don't feel like i have to check with him to make sure he's having a good time in a situation i know is not his thing. plus (and this is selfish) if edgar and i both went, we'd drive. if i go alone, i'll fly. flying is easier. i did tell him he has to go to the lake house :) if that is like last year (and i think it will be) it'll be a group of people sitting around talking and being lazy for a weekend. he still won't be so into me drinking, but let's be serious - he's got to deal with it sometimes.

lake house

im obviously thinking about it :) and ill keep a mental note of aug 6!

why no edgar megan? he can come! maybe he can entertain one of the many boys who im supposed to be entertaining :) im a little worried about how dev and satyan are going to fit into our bday plans for the weekend...im wondering if i just tell them that the whole weekend is a girls night out so i can avoid drama...i think satyan can handle being there even if dev is but i dont think dev can handle that at all!!

GOOD MORNING DARLINGS!

i'm glad you had fun nushie - and the jazz fest does sound right up my alley. i think jules will agree with me that that second trip to mardi gras was the best because we got to walk around beautiful new orleans and hear about the society aspects of their yearly wild parties. i think new orleans is awesome - endless amounts of places to walk around and places to go in and i feel like events like a jazz fest happen regularly that don't emphasize drinking at all.

and i'll be buying my plane tickets to nyc the weekend of june 10th soon :) its just going to be me, no edgar - i just want to worry about anusha's happiness for the weekend :) and i have a request - i don't know if anyone had started thinking about the lake house, but it can't be the weekend of august 6th! that's my cousin's wedding - which i would love to skip, but i don't think i'm allowed . . .

ok, now i'm supposed to spend the next working on my lab meeting presentation that again my boss is not available to help me (this happened last time too) oh well, at least i'm starting a week in advance this time and not 3 days :) i already tried to get gen to cancel it since eun can't make it too the meeting . . . but she said no.

good morning

whats everyone been up to?? i got julies update briefly last night...megan? rupa?

the test is exactly 1 month away...which sadly means that this is probably the most excitement/distraction in my entire day! although im already planning fun things for this week - tomorrow night drinks with corworkers then with jackie julie brian and everyone else in hotel sullivan, then sunday DH at rupas?? (i didnt watch on sunday so ill come over earlier to watch them both :)) i meant to call you to ask you to tape 24 but totally forgot...you dont happen to tivo it anyway do you?

im back :)

i had the best weekend! jazz fest is by far the coolest event i have ever been to. megan i think you would love it. it costs 25 for the whole day, and the music is so eclectic. its very refreshing to go to an event like this where the main goal isnt just to get drunk and do stupid stuff - but its way more cultural and relaxing. we went there sat and sunday, just ate amazing food and wandered around the rest of the time. monday i had meetings from 9-4 or so, and then left htis morning. it def helped that i was on expense :) im so used to mootching off of other peoples expense accounts it nice to be the working woman for a change!!!

megan the bday celebrations sound wonderful :) im glad it all worked out! jules how was the wedding? no update from you?? where are all the blogs??

well i'm here

hi :) i read the lyrics.. which i thought were so true.. that's one reason's country can be great.

megan it sounds like an awesome weekend :) i'm so glad that it turned out great and you two had such a great weekend... (and even still you aren't walking funny) ;)

more soon.. i have a meeting

ok, no one is here yet . . .

i posted random lyrics over the weekend, so if you are bored you can look at those. but more importantly - how was my weekend; specifically, how was edgar's bday celebration. it was AWESOME!

first of all, i did a whole lotta nothing friday and saturday - and it felt great! i dropped off a coverletter and resume to a vet office to ask them to let me volunteer on friday, i walked dogs saturday morning in the rain - other than that, i was a couch potato.

sunday - i picked edgar up at noon and we got lunch. i stalled for time and picked up take out sushi. he was driving (he always drives) so i told him to go to eastview mall - i think i had him really worried (eastview is where changs is - its also just passed the turn off for the hotel we stayed at) he didn't know what we were doing so i think it was scared that i wasn't kidding and i was throwing hima surprise party at changs. when i told him to turn down another street he got really confused. from the second we walked into the hotel, he started smiling. checked and the room was GREAT! there was a little kitchenette area with a microwave and fridge, a little tv sitting area, a table to eat at and then a gigantic comfy bed with lots of extra pillows and a jacuzzi easily built for two. i had packed my ipod and speakers so we had music, i brought lots of food so we had food. i brought a bottle of water and two wine glasses for something to drink. he LOVED the sexy lingerie - neither of us are walking funny today but we've both god big old smiles on our faces :) :) :)

AND we took a break at 9 and watched family guy :) and we had a really good talk this morning about what he was going to do with his life (a huge i don't know but now we have a general plan of what he's going to do after he finishes the associates degree this summer)

now i'm at work and i have on new shoes and a big smile and the fact that i'm not going to get samples until 4:30/5ish so i'll be here until forever doesn't even bother me :)

i CAN NOT WAIT until july 1st :)