good point :)

i went to the gym today between 3-4. it felt so good and it feels good now to not be constantly watching the clock!

if we go out for drinks ill prob just have a glass of wine then go home to sleep. im totally exhausted.

today

i have absolutely no motivation to do work right now. i feel like it's friday and i'm ust itching to get out of here!

the party last night was fun. bowling didn't work out because the place was packed and we didnt' feel like waiting for a lane, so we went to a bar and drank instead. i had a good time. i went home at like 11 though because i was tired and didn't feel like drinking myself to death. some people (including rupa) stayed out til like 4am. troopers! anyways, there was a lot of fun work gossip and bashing co-workers. i love how honest and open people get after a few beers :)

i talked to joe today. i called him to see if he wanted to take the ferry to jersey with me tomorrow so i wouldn't have to go alone (he said yes). we chatted for a few minutes. it was nice hearing his voice - i miss talking to him. anyways, we'll have 40 minutes of quality time on the ride to jersey tomorrow.

ugh. why isn't it 6 o'clock yet??

nush, have fun with your co-workers! don't order just water. . . they'll make you pay anyways, and you wouldn't have had anything to drink!

meg, have fun moving!

good luck with the move!

i was here all night. then i went to satyans. we were up till 3 or so talking and i was here at 8 again this morning. im drinking a box of joe though so its keeping me awake :) i think around 2 i may just go to the gym cause i need to energize myself. we are going out for drinks with work but after what happened last time i went out with work people i dont really want to - im gonna go so people dont think im childish and just get water with lemon so people think im drinking vodka :)

im gonna go home, go to pepe rosso (the cute italian rest near moush's) and then watch a movie till i fall asleep...

im not looking forward to the weekend though :(dev leaves sat and as much as i like that then i wont feel like i owe satyan explanations and i can actually just have my relationship with him, it makes me sad...

i cant wait for next week though when i leave for peru for a week!

The Day

start moving tonight :) :) :) :)

julie and rupa - how was the party?

nush - did you get to do anything fun last night or were at work all night?

is everything ok, nush?

too much work? you deserve this long weekend that's coming up!

i'm in the best mood. i had a doctor's appt at 10am, so i went to the gym, had a great workout, went to the doctor, and i just got into work like 20 minutes ago.

nush, don't work yourself too hard! happy thursday, ladies :)

hey

J+R sorry i couldnt come last night. i just called matt - i could def see the surprise in his voice :) i got his number months ago when i first kissed him but never called. i thought maybe i could see him after work today to say bye but he said he leaves this afternoon and wont be back till dec :( it was nice to talk to him even if it was just for 2 min.

sunglasses

believe it or not even $300 sunglasses arent helpful in the rain! i am soaking wet. oh well. i went to mexx and bought two shirts for myself (jules, not sure if you know the teal one i bought there but i bought 2 more of those)

i cant wait to see you girls tonight :) megan i miss you!! i picked the date and am ready with the sharpie when the de shaw contingent agrees. no need to inform the boyfriend!!

who cares!

third wheel, whatever . . . eat and drink too much and enjoy yourself :)

hey!

it's not funny. . .my dream was really scary at the time! ok, i guess it's a little funny. . .

nope, no word from joe since the weekend. i miss him, even though i'm definitely happier than i have been in weeks. we'll probably hang out at some point this weekend.

jacob invited me to a j.p. morgan roofdeck party (at this amazing apartment) tomorrow night, so i'll be going with him and beverly, his girlfriend. it's funny because i went to a couple of parties with him this past year, and everyone always thought we were dating. beverly moved into the city this summer, so i'm surprised that he's still inviting me. one of his brokers is taking us to dinner beforehand to some place that's supposed to have amazing seafood. i hope i don't feel like an awkward third-wheeler the whole night. maybe i'll meet some cute j. p. morgan boys. . .

i feel left out :(

although, sunday night i had a dream that courtney yelled at me because she said i was supposed to defrost our big -80 freezer (which entails moving everything into another -80 freezer first) . . . but that was a couple of days ago . . . maybe i'm just ahead of all of you!

julie's dream

sounds like a video game....

to the left, there is a door- if you open the door, there is a big boxer. to your right, there is a donut on the table. feed the donut to the dog to get past him.

no party at my cousins on monday

seemed to complicated and i didnt feel like taking her up on the apt offer for various reasons...

megan what was your dream???

i think its weird that we all had such weird dreams last night!

one of satyans friends had good seats to the mets game today but id rather see you girls and go bowling so i told him i wasnt going to go. he said hed think about it and if he doesnt go he will prob come bowling...

for a rochester trip, i vote for your bday weekend. i cant leave here until like the 8 pm flight on friday, but i can stay till the monday morning flight back...i think bday weekends are so fun :)

jules, any word from joe lately?

just a reminder . . .

i'm booking a weekend far far far in advance. mark your schedules, tell your boyfriends, write me into the calendar in sharpie . . . the three of you need to decide what weekend in september/october you are coming to rochester :)

the bowling sounds super fun! i think that's a great alternative to going to a bar :) and nush - i don't think its weird for satyan to come to a guy's party who you've made out with . . . he came to your party when your boyfriend was there :)

my dream

I had the weirdest dream last night! I don't usually remember my dreams either, and when I do they're totally not exciting, but last night's was so weird. I was in an apt that looked almost like our apt, and I lived there with jackie and anusha. a bunch of boys from college were staying at our place visiting anusha. I was alone with the guys - jackie and anusha weren't there. I don't remember who they were, there was no one I recognized, but somehow I knew they were all random kappa sigs, all younger than us. I got into a fight with one of them because they were at anusha's window being totally rude and yelling at some girl out there. then I kicked them out/they all left and I went to sleep. there was this random closet by our front door, and I woke up because I heard some noises coming from the closet. when I opened the closet door to check it out, there was this huge dog in there, it looked like a boxer (nush, that's a kind of dog). the dog jumped out of the closet at me and he was growling and I was terrified that he was going to attack me and I was so pissed that nobody told me there was a dog in there. a donut randomly appeared on this table next to me, so I threw it in the closet, the dog ran in there after it, and I shut the door.

talk about random, huh?

megan, we're doing bowling and beer for matt's going away party. he's not a huge drinker, so we were trying to do something that doesn't just center around drinking. nush, we'll definitely be there at 8:30. I don’t think people are going to arrive until 8ish anyways, so it's all good. I'm going to the gym right after work and probably won't get there until close to 8 anyways.

nush, I'm glad satyan was around to console you last night.
rupa, that's awesome that you had a nice dream and are excited about seeing your grandparents.
megan, yay for getting your keys!

bowling?

where did that come from??

and i'm very excited! i picked up my key yesterday, but have to wait until thursday evening (if the carpets are dry, the landlord is washing them that day) to move in. my aunt that lives in rochester emailed me yesterday to see if i wanted to go out for dinner with her. she gets her hair done around the corner from my apartment so when she has an appointment and isn't busy with her sons right afterwards, we go out. so, we went to one of my new favorite everyday kind of restaurants and i told her about my apartment. after dinner, she asked if i would walk her over there and show her the place so we did. my landlords were on their porch getting drunk waiting for the old tenant to come over to go out for dinner. they were immediately like do you want your key now? i had talked to them earlier and was going to pick it up on thursday. i said sure - so i got to show my aunt the inside of the place and confirm that i could move stuff in thursday night - sooo excited!!!

rupa - i'm really glad you are enjoying your new job so much :) i don't mind that you aren't blogging as often if i know you are busy doing stuff you enjoy :)

anusha - you need to not work so much. i recognize i have absolutely no power and/or authority to do anything about it but DAMN! you seem to put in a lot of hours that are messing up the rest of your life . . .

jules - i have no comment for you yet :)

dreams

i had a horrible dream last night :( my mom was really sick and the doctor told us bad things...i was sad and woke up satyan at 4 am...the weird thing is i never remember my dreams! and if i do they make no sense.

im trying to figure out what time of the day i can go to the gym during the day so i can go bowling tonight. if i cant escape, i may work out from 630-730 (if i even get out that early) and meet you guys around 830...how long do you think youll be there? is today is his last day at work?

i was here till 745 yesterday and then worked out with dev which was really fun. met satyan for dinner and then went to sleep. i hope things slow down after the first of the month...seems unlikely though...

good morning!

hello hello!! megan, you are one day closer to newfound independence :) how are you all?

i'm in a really good mood today.. and it's one of those moods where there is definitely NO reason why... so even the tiny boring parts of my morning feel fun. how is everyone else? jules- come visit!!

i had a really nice dream about hanging out with my grandparents last night... and not that i ever have explicit or awful dreams, but they are usually something random and mundane like sitting in my apt or talking to someone about socks (not exactly THAT but as mundane as that).. or i just don't remember in the morning so it was nice to have a totally candy-coated g-rated feel-good dream. i think it's b/c i've been planning my trip to india.. which is now gonna be mid-october through early nov, instead of late october to mid-nov. wonder why? ameya's parents planned to visit him at the exact same time that i did.. and i don't think that would be quite as fun as visiting him alone ;)

how is everyone else today?

friends and boys

i complain about it - but only when ive been drinking ive realized :) i think that he does actually spend time with my friends when i do - the problem is the weekends get so busy with so many things that i realize i shouldnt complain/blame him for not hanging out with you guys...also since i dont see you guys that much sometimes i like just being with you guys and not having him around!

ill ask him about tomorrow night...tonight if i get out of here soon im gonna go to the gym, then go to his place. i forgot about a big meeting i have tomorrow, so the shirt i have prob wont cut it so i may have to go shopping and buy a new shirt since i dont feel like going all the way home :)

marriage

she is married! her and satyan are like this cute old couple. . .it's adorable! nush, I think it's ok if satyan comes to matt's thing. there are going to be a lot of people there anyways, so I don’t think it'll be awkward. and aren't you always saying how annoying it is that it's so hard to get him to hang out with your friends?

megan, you seem so happy and excited. I love it :)

rups, good luck with all your crazy work.

married

megan im becoming practically married like you! satyan came over last night at like 915 cause we have definitely gotten used to the falling asleep together thing. i didnt want to go over that late cause i was tired and had a long day at work but i bribed him with cuddling and heating up some yummy home cooked indian food. i didnt have any naan so i bought pita bread as a replacement. heating that up and eating with him yesterday and getting ready to go to work with him around feels really nice :) he is such a sweet heart.

jules and rupa, i think he may come to matts thing tomrrow. i didnt invite him since i thought its weird to bring a boyfriend to a boy who youve kissed going away party, but when i said it was matt, he was like he was so much fun at your bday id love to come. i mentioned that i didnt invite him and he just started tickling me thinking i was kidding :) anyway we shall see.

off to have lunch with dev. im going to miss him a lot. but im not going to miss the guilty feeling i feel whenever i hang out with him without telling satyan before hand. just 4 more days :(

megan - make sure edgar gets the last weekend in august off for the lake house party!

long weekend

i have the best weekend planned!
friday - my dad is coming up and helping me move. edgar also recruited a guy from the kitchen at chang's who he is going to help move thursday to help move me on friday. hopefully, it all won't take that long because i'll have started moving in by thursday evening. then, dad can take me out to eat. spend friday night unpacking and rearranging . . .
saturday - at 1, my cousin is having a graduation party in auburn so i'll drive there and hang out with family. edgar will have to work saturday night and auburn is a little over an hour away, so he's not coming . . . but i'll see him saturday night :)
sunday - staying with edgar and enjoying the apartment
monday - corey, a server at chang's recently bought a house and he's throwing a 4th of july/housewarming thing and then in the evening for fireworks, other friends from chang's are moving in less than a block away (opposite corner to the pizza place, actually) and there building is the tallest in the park ave area (still only 9 stories) when i was talking to my new landlords, they told me how they know the owners of that building and with the common roof deck, its a great place to watch fireworks because you get an unobstructed 360 degree view of not only rochester's but you can see the surrounding suburbs shows.

weddings

yup they were there :) my mom even sang at the wedding. his sister called and said that she heard her sing at another wedding and wanted her to sing at her brothers! i didnt know him...

rupa - you could def bring rooz and your sis! and even other people :) ill prob decide if i want to do it or not by tomorrow. i think itll be mostly satyans friends and you since julie and jackie will be away...

im not here all weekend. dev leaves sat night and then im getting on the train and going to philly for the weekend. i didnt want to be in NY cause I think it would make me too sad. I think seeing my brother and kerry will be the perfect company to be with after he leaves.

i have a lot of work to do this week too. looking at the july calendar and realizing that next week is a 4 day week (and 3.5 for me since friday is my next doctors apt) and then the week after im out...i have A LOT of stuff to get done this week...

this weekend

i don't think i'll be around monday night. i'm heading to jersey friday after work to spend the weekend at jackie's cousin's house, and i'm not sure when we'll be back.

are you going to be here all weekend?

megan, any plans for the long weekend?

rain

i like the rain :)

i haven't blogged in a while yet again.. i'm trying to catch up to my usual speed but that doesn't seem to happen. i guess i don't really have a lot to say.. i love love my job.. did i mention that? i lost my solo office but i now share with two very funny boys (no, not THAT kind of boy... ) but they are very big brotherly... and hilarious. plus now julie visits ME more than i visit her :) which i love.

nush- i have a funny story for you.. i was looking at wedding pics last night from my friend satwik's wedding (he went to MIT, but he also went to elementary->high school w me). i wasn't at the wedding so i was getting the email-narrated picture version last night... and there's this random picture of your dad.. and i'm thinking wow that looks like nush's dad- then at the end of the pics there was one of him and your mom... it was your parents!! how random :) i guess that was the wedding in jersey they went to? how funny.

megan, i'm so excited for your move.. and i will happily invite whatever old guy on the street i see to have pizza with me (and you!) at the ghetto pizza place near your apt... how are things on the homefront w e and j? have i missed a lot? any new tension?

jules, come and visit!! i wanna hear about dave matthews and your drive through nowhere, pa.

i have this big thing due right after july 4th so i'm no longer going to montreal and boston- my sis is in montreal now so she's gonna drive here for july 4th too. rooz might come down for july 4th too... i'm not sure yet. could i bring them if you have a party, nush? :) it would be fun to do something where you can see fireworks.

the weather here is no better

in fact, yesterday was supposed to potentially hit record highs in the upper 90s!
and i'm not installing my AC unit until i move . . .
which should be any day now :) (by the way, i can bring every subject back to me moving and its a constant struggle not to because its the only thing on my mind)

another good thing about my apartment - there is a ghetto pizza place on the corner that seems the stay open sorta late type . . . slices after the bar when you guys come visit? :) i thought of rupa and waking up with the slice between us . . .

i hope everyone is recovered and got lots of sleep last night (anusha after her long day and julie after her killer hang over . . .) i'm in a super good mood! since i worked on sunday, i keep thinking today is wednesday but that's ok - because it sort of is like wednesday because i'm taking friday off!

and i'm going to go out to dinner tonight with my aunt - which is fun. maybe i'll suggest first taste grill - which has a yummy eggplant sandwich . . .

weather

it is gross. but i think i like this better than 100 degrees like it was over the weekend.

im glad i didnt go on the cruise. it would have sucked with the weather last night. and instead i got to work out and then have dinner with satyan.

i think on monday night i may have a little party at my cousins house in jersey (she will be in london) - she has the best view of the city and the fire works...julie and rupa, will you be around this weekend? would you be around monday night? im not sure if im going to take her up on the offer, but i think a wine and cheese night could be really fun there...

rainy morning

it's easy to party hard when you don't need to be at work for 11 hours straight! that sucks about the cruise.

it's so rainy and gross out today. can't i just go back to bed?

didnt get to go to the cruise...

...and ive been here for 11 hours straight...

hopefully i can go home soon, work out, then go meet satyan for dinner and talk about the conference i missed out on today. i cant wait for my vacation!! 2 more weeks and ill be in peru!

i blogged earlier...

Girls

you guys are troopers

i dont know how you do it! im glad i had a lowkey dinner with my family last night. i was so tired from the weekend i needed sleep last night. 10 year olds have a lot of energy!

hung over

in case you guys were wondering whether or not it's a good idea to start the week with a billion lychee martinis on sunday night. . . it's not. we had dinner at tao yesterday. the food was good. the drinks were even better. then we met up with some of jackie's work people and kept drinking. i have no idea at what time i got home, but i definitely could not get out of bed this morning. and i've definitely been dead at work all day.

megan, good luck moving. i'm so excited for you!

busy

this weekend was great :) well friday i got a bit drunk at devs going away party, had a little argument with satyan mainly because he is older and has grown up and out of the drink till you dont rememebr what you say phase, which i actually dont like at all, so i want to try to not do that...anyway we are fine - he didnt reprimand or get mad he just made me realize that if i cant remember our conversation when im drunk thats prob a bad thing...

anyway then sat i spent the whole day with him doing fun NY things - museum, walking around, eating out. it was great. then i baby sat arjun and avinash. gave them ice cream, took them to central park, played frisbee, went to a museum. it was great :)

work is really busy today. i got here at 730 and havent had time to breathe :( im supposed to be at a conference and dinner cruise all day today (with satyan) but i dont know if ill even be able to go. im pretty bummed about that! anyway we shall see...hopefully i can at least make it to the dinner cruise...

the count down has begun

and i need it.
this friday is my official move in/out date . . . possibly earlier if the apartment's ready. heidi moved all of her stuff into the apartment yesterday - so you can't move in our living room. and there are still two couches in the hall. two couches!!! i don't know how all the stuff she has is going to fit into the space. oh well, not my problem :)

i started packing yesterday - just little stuff. my bookshelf from next house is empty now and all my glasses are packed up. it was a very sentimental time :) explaining why i have a plastic chuckie cheese thing with pictures stuck in it . . . why the tacky sand sculpture picture frame that says "cancun" in puff paint is so important . . . and i found that i still have a mardi gras plastic cup, as well as one from wet willie's and a good luck on finals from jocelyn's silly care package days . . .

i'm here but gen's not

and i don't have a lot of work - so me and courtney have been shooting the shit a lot today :) and i've done a little work on the side . . :)

at lunch, we got hot dogs from the hot dog vendor and then looked through the parking lot for the car that hit shelley's car yesterday (while parked, decent amount of damage but no note or anything) now, i'm back and attempting to get a little work done so eun doesn't think i'm a complete slacker :)

Girls

no blogs today?

funny story

last night at the drinks thing, before i got there satyan was telling one of his friends about me "new gf, works at bofa, pretty" etc etc...and the guy was like "you are dating lauren renzo?!?" satyan said he looked mortified at the thought :) it was hilarious

quick

hi everyone!

I'm still trying to catch up and read.. but hi!! work is busy again for
me and reading the blog hasn't happened as much as it should.... nush
sorry about your night :( I don't think you are allergic to arugula b/c
you had that arugula salad at my place and were ok! maybe korean and
italian has some random spice in common that affects you? (oregano!!)
:)

more later.. I have a crazy day. love ya all!

allergies and my wonderful dad

you would think that as an allergist he should know. the problem with food allergies if it isnt the same thing every time - like every time he eats eggs he gets sick, so then he did a test for egg white and egg yolk and he is allergic to both of them - that is easy. for me it happened 3 times when i ate korean food and now with italian. so the only way to test of it is if i go see him like every day and do a food test for each food with like 3 hour spaces between them to see what it is that causes it...seems too laborious and his guess is that im either allergic to arugula (which can just happen one day, the fact that i wasnt allergic to it last week wouldnt matter) and then the other thing is the arugula i ate could have not been washed properly...

i think thats the worst thing about being a doctor - knowing that you cure and help sooo many people but you cant seem to help your own daughter. i love my dad and i hate that this worries him so much! i almost dont want to call and tell him when im sick but i also never know what to do! it was nice to have satyan around :)

jules - im glad joe cancelled on her too! it was bothering me that he would make plans with her on a weeknight!!! i wanted to ask you but she was always around on tues and i wasnt home yesterday :)

i dont think im leaving early today, we'll see, prob around 530 or so - go to the gym and have a lowkey night at home with dev and his bro...

awww

nush, i'm sorry you had such a shitty night. thank God for super satyan taking care of you :) is there any way you can sneak out of work a little early today?

jackie didn't end up hanging out with joe. it doesn't make me frustrated that they were going to hang out - what frustrated me is that he was always too busy or too tired to make plans with me on weeknights, and then this is like the second time in a couple of weeks that he's made plans to go to happy hour with jackie. anyways, in typical joe fashion, he cancelled with jackie both times because he was tired and just wanted to go home. so, that made me feel better :). yesterday morning he asked jackie why i wasn't going to happy hour with them. jackie told him, "it's not because of you. she has her routine, she wants to go to the gym, she'll meet up with us if we're still out".

anyways, it felt really nice to go out last night and not be thinking about him constantly and all that.

and nush, i agree with megan: can't you try to find out what it is you're allergic to?

what does your dad do again??

nushie, you are obviously allergic to something! is it that hard to find out what?

the joys of the single life ;)

go for it jules! even if he is a thug :)

did jackie hang out with joe? does that make you frustrated?

sick

i had a rough night...i went out with some satyan and some "industry" people which was fun - not weird to be in a work env with him although he knows the people much better than i do and apparently they kept talking about me when i didnt know :) then i went to the gym, went out to dinner with him - then it was all down hill. we just had italian food, and im not sure what the problem was but i was allergic to something and my throat got all these bumps in it and i couldnt breathe/swallow. it was scary. same thing that happens when i eat korean food, im just not sure why it happened...

anyway i got benydrl and just laid in satyans lap till i feel asleep. he was cute, he stayed awake watching tv until i fell asleep.

now im here but kind of zombie like...i which they had antihistimines that didnt make you so tired!!

he was such a cutie!

i thought he was adorable in that movie (about last night). and thanks for excusing me for not knowing about the 80s :)

it's so sunny out! i really wish i could be outside right now sleeping at the beach or by the pool. i'm getting out of work early tomorrow so i can hang out with julia. i think i'm taking her to the statue of liberty. i've never been and neither has she, so i think it'll be fun. neither of us is going to be around for the next couple of weekends, so the next time we would be able to see each other would have been like 1 month from the last time we hung out. so i figured d. e. shaw and the world of recruiting would survive without me for a friday afternoon :)

i love iced coffe - especially the $1.25 iced coffee i get from the street vendor. makes me so happy :)

one of jackie's friends from gainesville, jessica, is visiting this weekend. she got here yesterday, so we went out to one of josh and antonio's parties (antonio is the guy you all know as "thug"). i haven't been to their parties in a few months. antonio looked so cute!

you don't know rob lowe?!

well, i suppose you didn't spend a whole lot of the 80s in the states . . . rob lowe is part of the brat pack! in the 80s, he was one of the younger crowd It guys - st. elmo's fire, breakfast club - that group of people. they were big.

then the 80s ended. poor guy.

hello

i agree with megan - i really like the strawberry special k (although i haven't had the vanilla almond one).

anyways, i'm here and super sleepy (like always). i finished watching this really cute movie that jackie got on netflix, "about last night". it's with demi moore and rob lowe, and it was made like 20 years ago. I didn't recognize rob lowe when i was watching the movie, but i looked him up last night since i thought he was really cute. he was in "the west wing", and he was the middle number two in the austin powers movies! in case you're incredibly bored and have some time in your hands, here's the link to his pic and the stuff he's been in: http://imdb.com/name/nm0000507/

where is everyone?

since i got here at 8 i felt i deserved a break to get my nails done :) and also to check our netflix - aviator, motorcycle diaries, all the prez men, and 2 that jackie got that i dont know/remember...

im excited :)

megan - any other vets you know in rochester? ill find one in NYC for you if you like ;)

special k

the berry one is good too - i like it better than the vanilla almond one :)

i talked to my vet's wife last night - she said she'd have him call me, but they already have two students for the summer. so, i'm pretty sad.

hurly burly

it was really funny. a bit too long if you ask me, and i saw a lot of ethan hawkes ass, jesse spanos boobs which totally traumatized me! some of the dialog was hilarious though!

im so tired. i had an 8 am meeting this morning...it went well. now i have meetings all day long, then im gonna meet satyan and other "industry people" at 6, they are meeting for drinks, im just gonna have some water then go to the gym. then im gonna stay over at satyans tonight. i plan on telling him tonight that for the next week or so i may not see him as much since dev leaves in a week and i want to spend time with him before he leaves :( satyan is too good to me so im sure he will let me do whatever i want but i still feel bad...

anyway if i can stay awake this whole day, thats the plan...

by the way = special k vanilla almond cereal is my new fav. i usually jsut eat special k and i feel like im eating healthy food which i dont like - but this other one tastes soooo good and its good for you!

tried blogging but it's not working

i'm having a great day. i went rollerblading this morning; it's gorgeous out; i'm looking forward to hurly burly tonight :)

meg, congrats on your apt! your schedule sounds so hectic, although i'm jealous you get to go home and let your parents spoil you so often.

I'm in such a good mood :)

I went rollerblading this morning, and I strolled into work at 10am (I love doing that once in a while!), and we're going to hurly burly tonight :)

meg, congrats on the apt. sounds like you're going to have a pretty hectic schedule, although i'm jealous you get to go home so often.

nush and rupa, see ya tonight!

good morning

today is my first day off from the gym in a week and a half :) yesterday i did two classes and it felt so good! first total body conditioning which totally kicked my butt then masala bhangara :) i love that class.

i cant wait till the show tonight :) megan we are finally going to see hurly burly.

congrats on the new apt! you move in july 1??

that sounds fun! (minus the 7 day work week thing...)

how many hours do you need with the vet again? is this the vet you have been taking bruge and star too?? that will be nice for you...

die gus die

i'd go to the movie in the park jules :) but i'm a little far away . . .

i talked to eun today - i just need to talk to my vet from home and i am going to start driving home (ogdensburg) after work on thursdays and volunteer friday and saturday and drive back saturday. i met with a vet here and that's what he thought would be the best thing to help my application for vet school this fall . . . my parents are super excited - my mom has volunteered to do all my laundry for me and to make me good food every weekend :) then, my lab work week will be sunday through thursday. i'm going to be busy, but i'm not trying to squeeze two things in any one day, just going to be working 7 days a week . . .

tonight

im going to pass on bryant park. i saw that movie and really didnt like it. i want to go home and go to the gym, satyan is going to come over and try to set our mouse trap...and stay over so he can clean up the mess if gus is dead in the morning :)

what women want

my interesting boy story - last night i got a text from satyan saying he was watching what women want and it made him think of me and saying that he thought i was cute but wished that he knew what i was thinking sometimes :) i thought it was funny kinda brushed it off..until just now when i was at lunch with dev and he said the exact same thing! i cant believe it sometimes...

dev leaves in less than 2 weeks :(

whoa!

I WOULD NOT DATE CHIRAG!! that's so like 5 years ago!

jackie called me a little while ago to tell me that they're showing "the way we were" at sunset tonight on the lawn in bryant park. rupa or anusha, do you guys want to meet us there? nush, i know you're not a huge fan of barbar streisand, but we could get chipotle and have a little picnic. . .

meg, i'm so happy everything's going so well for you! and i agree with you - joe's stupid and has his head in his ass :). what kind of dog are you going to get??? i'm excited for you :)

DO NOT START DATING CHIRAG!!!

although i'm really interested in break up details . . . :)

i'm sorry jules about you and joe :( i think i know the reason he got so distant - he's stupid and his head is stuck so far up his ass he can't see . . . (i mean, that's the only option right?)

i hope everyone else's romantic life is going at least the same if not better than last week :)
i'm chipper because i woke up this morning to good sex (yeah, jess being away for the weekend!) AND i signed my lease saturday and met my new landlords - retired hippies. they seem AWESOME! they didn't ask for my bank account numbers or lots of references like the last people and they seem super super sweet! and . . . i can have a dog :) they are totally cool with pets :)

single again

hi ladies. anusha and rupa already know the news, so this is just for you meg: i finally broke up with joe yesterday. it was on the phone - the conversation lasted like 5 minutes. we got into another fight on friday and hadn't talked all weekend, so we both knew it was coming. i brought it up, he agreed. i know it's for the best, but wish i didn't feel so sad now. i wish i knew what happened that made him start acting so different. blah. oh well.

in other news: i hung out with chirag saturday night. he and carrie broke up. i didn't get a chance to ask too many questions so i don't have any details, but i was definitely surprised. and calluzzo and ilia are still dating. . . weird, huh? he's in london, i don't remember where she's at. but he's coming back to the states becasue he misses home and he wants to be closer to her.

ok, time to do a lil bit of work and try to get my mind off of silly boys.

getting old and alex

we aren't getting old - we are getting smarter!
think of the crap we put our bodies through in college - junk food, late nights, over-caffeinating to compensate for it all. now we know there are limits :)

and "alex" is short for alexandra - she's one of the summer students who sits next to me and we chat all day :)

ewww

i just thought of what we've all been saying: "i just want to stay in and watch movies and relax"

does this mean we're getting old????

ditto

i just wanna stay in and watch movies, too. i think i just really need to catch up on sleep.

megan, the apt looks so cute! will you have enough room to house the 3 city girls when we come visit?

nush, sorry work is so shitty. at least you're almost done for the week (if you haven't left yet).

sorry for neglecting you ladies all day - i've been grumpy all day. rupa and i went to hell's kitchen for dinner last night. it was so yummy! then i went home, and jackie and i met some of her coworkers (sean and woody) out for 2 drinks. i was home and in bed early, but i think i've been cranky because i was up from like 3-5am for no reason at all, i just couldn't fall back asleep. i was so annoyed!

anyways, megan, good luck with the apt hunt. nush, have fun with satyan tonight.

alex

i assume thats a coworker of yours and not just a coworker of mine :) is he the weird nice guy that you like? or the one who doesnt protect himself from the disease room?

rainy days and movie moods

me too (on the sit around watch movies and relax)
the last two days have been rainy, alex and i discussed how we just want to sit at home cuddled under a blanket (i included with tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich) and watch movies.

my personality

i think thats the problem - no one else is like me around here :) there is a lot of business type BS around here, and its driving me nuts cause im the only one who cares about it. and i bring it up ALL the time and no one listens and then when larrys boss asks for info on it all of a sudden there is a fire drill around here and I get heat for it! i hate it. anyway i think by next week it should all be resolved. im just sick of being the only person who cares about stuff like this.

im going to see the interpreter tonight :) im excited. its weird, after last weekend and going out tuesday i just dont want to go out. i just want to constantly stay home, watch movies, and relax :)

work

what is going so wrong at work? :(

sloping walls!

i like them! i think they add a lot of character. i think you should paint some of them...

i esp like them in the bedtoom :)

work has been horrible. im tired and frustrated. i just want to go home! im leaving at 4 today just to get out but will prob have to bring my computer with me in case allen calls. urgh.

last night satyan and i went to a place called pongal - my first south indian rest exp in the city. i loved it! jules this was one of the places we were going to take you and jackie...we should do that sometime...

did you guys go to hells kitchen?

apartments

i found the best apartment last night! its about $100 more a month than i want to spend, but i think i'm still going to get it :) i have two more people to call and if i don't like there places - i think i'm going to take this one!

1. off street parking
2. dishwasher
3. allows pets
4. private entrance w/doorbell/intercom so i don't have to walk downstairs to see who it is

its the attic of an old house, so it has weird sloping walls, but space wise its really big. the kitchen looks great to cook in, it has a little tv alcove like the one on will & grace, the bedroom looks plenty big enough and the landlords live nextdoor and seem really friendly and very we're all one big happy family. it was their niece that showed me the place and i said something about not being a loud person and she was like, well there is an 18 year old that will be living below you (the other two floors of the building are two of her other aunts so i think the 18 year old is her cousin) and he would probably like it if you threw some parties.

so, yeah. i'm overly excited. edgar was so happy to see me because he was like you haven't been this excited and happy in a while AND the move in date is july 1st!

and i crunched the numbers with edgar last night, trying to figure out how i could afford it . . . i figured out my whole monthly bugdet and i would still have $500 surplus behind heat/gas/tv/internet/gas for car/food/rent . . . so i'd still be adding to may savings and would occasionally get to do things like visit nyc and go to the theater and the symphony (goals of mine this year as those are options available in rochester)

if you guys are super bored . . . there are pictures online.
http://www.rentrochester.com/search/property.php?id=6241

i'm smiling!

exhausted

work is totally kicking my butt and in not fun things too. im sick of it and cant wait for the weekend. this is why i liked studying :) at least that kicked my butt but i was learning a lot!

jules and rupa, im not going to come to dinner tonight. ive been out every night this week and im just exhausted. im not sure if im going to be home or at satyans but i just want a break from being out.

shaking "hands"

its too bad you didn't get to go, i think it would have been funny :)

alright, i'm bored with work for the week. i want to go home now. and i have a dull headache . . . sort of a i'm about an hour behind of sleep and have been every night this week headache . . . but i had the best dinner last night/lunch today. we went to this little restaurant near my apartment that advertises that their food is made from scratch. i had a pesto, mozerella, tomato and eggplant sandwich on really awesome italian bread. i had half last night and half today and it completely made me happy :)

joe

i think tomorrow will be great for you guys too. i think you just need to be out somewhere without friends and have fun like you used to.

eww. megan your mice info was disgusting and i am trying to eat my first meal of the day and it is 115. i am crabby already cause of it and now im grossed out!!!

my solution was that i am going to buy mouse traps today and convince satyan that he wants to be our saviour and the mouses murderer....

im exhausted - i went to bed at 1130 or so, woke up at 530 to to the gym, went to an awesome conf this morning, and have been on the phone with allen all day. im supposed to be at a conference that satyan is at now - it would have been our first we are dating but have to keep our distance encounter, but i had to stay here to talk to allen so i didnt get to go. we even practiced shaking hands yesterday :)

mice and apartment hunting

ok, i'm looking at 4 places tonight - 3 of which are a little more than i want to spend, the last being a perfect price but i think the landlord lives in the building and i haven't looked at the house yet.

as for the mouse, tell jackie suck it up with the traps. next thing you will have are little black specks in your cupboards. these would be what science calls "fecal matter" . . . mouse poop. it will go from nothing to lots. and then you might have the fun of another mouse getting in and babies. just kill it. kill it soon. we had a mouse in our house - he didn't get caught in our traps but he went away at some point so someone got him. i got to empty all of our cupboards and disinfect them because of the mouse poo and throw away everything that the mouse looked like he touched. dealing with a dead mouse once is way better than dealing with a living mouse for a while.

good :)

i'm glad you talked him out of being silly. i don't know why anyone would want to be a realtor - they all suck anyways! ugh, i cringe just thinking about the mission we were going through last year looking for an apt that jackie, anusha, and i all agreed on.

speaking of apartments, anusha, jackie and i have an unwanted visitor in the sullivan hotel. two nights ago i spotted a small mouse, and jackie saw him again yesterday. fluffy or gus (jackie named him fluffly, anusha named him gus) got trapped in jackie's closet last night, so he kept her up all night digging around trying to get out. she opened her closet door, but i guess he still had trouble finding his way out. what the hell are we supposed to do! we went to cvs to get mouse traps, but jackie couldn't stomach the thought of coming home and finding a dead mouse in the trap. dude, this doesn't happen in miami!

i'm so excited about tonight - i'm going to dinner at alta, the tapas place rupa raves about, with rupa, anuj (future husband), and his fiancee. sorry meg, now that you're not around, looks like rupa has traded you in for a short (fake) blonde ;)

things with joe are still kind of blah. we're going out tomorrow just me and him (we haven't done that in ages), so hopefully we'll get a chance to talk and figure shit out.

anyways, it's thursday, i'm in a great mood, and i hope you all have a lovely day :)

helllooooo

edgar's better now. i can't convince him that talking to me cures all ills! but it always does . . . so i forced him into conversation last night and apparently he believed i had 100% decided that i was taking the basement apartment and just not moving in until august 1st - even though i said i was still looking. stupid ass.

i get to look at 3 more apartments tonight, i called like 4 places last night while i was walking around emailed another place today and wrote down three phone numbers to call tonight.

why would anyone want to be a realtor?!?

my teeth hurt from the dentist...

i hope i still enjoy alta!

yeah i know...

and i guess i already got over the confrontation part by writing to her about it in the first place...i should have done it a long time ago. but as she wrote in an email better late than never.

jules - any word from joe? is he working late again this week?

realtor

g'luck with your dinner with toral - i agree with julie, both of you want it so it won't be as bad as you think :)

i called the realtor tuesday before i went to work and left a message. he left a message for me sometime during the work day tuesday. first of all, call me back monday. my check is sitting on your desk, i can't be that easy to forget about. second, i think the reason he didn't call me was that he didn't do anything. the message he left said exactly the same thing "the landlord extended the lease until august" that just sounds like he never specifically asked the landlord. then he was like i was hoping to rent one of the landlord's other properties (which i saw with him before) but it was rented out from under me. i'm sorry - am i supposed to feel like you really helped me out? if you were that concerned - you have my deposit check, hold the place for 2 days. if you aren't, then don't make it sound like you are fighting for me.

i emailed a couple of listings i found and got a reply from one so far. the apartment is a little more than i want to spend (it doesn't include heat) but other than that seems good. i'm going to see the places tomorrow at 5.

fathers day

i just got back from my lunch break to brooks brothers, found two ties for my dad :)

megan i told you friday i thought? basically thurs i emailed her and was like i dont know whats going on but everything just seems weird between us and i dont know why. she wrote back and told me why she was mad...i wrote back and was like i dont want to write back defenses/excuses/explanations because that will go on forever, lets just meet sometime and talk about all this. so tonight is that meeting.

i liked the lobster and the wine, but like we were talking outside - i think ill like it when i reach a point where i can pay for it myself, and until then im totally happy with yellow tail and the dinner places we normally chose. id much rather pick that over hanging out with sloppy disgusting drunk guys...

i had a fun ride home though :) satyan was still awake so he entertained me all the way home, he is a cutie.

megan - what happened with the realtor? did he call you on monday? did they give you an estimate for when that guy would move out? is edgar going with you to see the new places you found online?

hmm - liking work

what a concept. i like work on the 15th and 30th of the month when i get paid. and i like work when i come back from a fun lunch with you and gerry (like right now). does that count?

glad you girls had fun last night. maybe next week or the week after we can try going to the italian restaurant in midtown like we'd originally planned.

meg, good luck apt hunting! i hope you can find something for july 1st.

nush - don't worry about your dinner with toral. both of you want it to work, so i'm sure everything will work out.

Trying the email version

I haven't used this in so long that I'm not sure if it will work but for
some reason typing in email feels much faster than blogging in the
window. Megan, I'm sorry he's being weird... I think sometimes that
guys have their own "time of the month" :) I had fun seeing jules and
nush last night.. I agree that we need to do more chill nights after
work where we hang out and talk a lot but don't drink too much... just
having wine or whatever... especially if we can do midtown after work
for me and after gym for you guys or something.. that was nice.

I did enjoy my free lobster and $250 wine.. not something I'd ever get
for myself so it's nice to indulge.

I love love love my new job.. it's been fun and exciting... it's so
strange to like work again :)

confrontation?

what are we confronting toral about?

nah, i think he's mostly over this weekend. now, its a deep seated resentment that i may not move until august 1st. but i was looking again and i found way more apartments posted then last time i looked . . . so, we'll see. plus, the realtor is REALLY pissing me off now over the august 1st apartment, so i want to find a july 1st place . . .

boys can be ridiculous!

he is still avoiding you for sat? you applogized! and called on sunday at a reasonable time, and called on friday during the festivities - TWICE! does he not remember that stuff??

julie rupa jackie and i went out last night. it was fun. rups i love seeing you this much :) although next time we go out there should be more you talking about your job and less focus on drinking! im glad i only had 2 glasses of wine cause i was able to get up at 6 am and go to the gym.

tonight is my dinner with toral...i hate confrontation...

good morning all!

edgar is avoiding me - i don't know for how long. he's doing the stay by himself and think routine because he wants me to be in my own apartment and everything to be happy-go-lucky. i went to see star wars III last night with jess - i was less than impressed. oh well, i knew that would be my reaction.

and now today has begun. i can't wait for the weekend.

michael

rupa blogged about michael jackson after she and i spent 45 minutes with about another 20 people in a conference room watching the verdict on our new flat screen tv. i guess that's the only reason why i wasn't confused.

anyways, i just got done from my very first super long meeting without rupa. so boring. although i guess the last 20 minutes weren't so bad since the whole group was actually discussing something, rather than having nick just sit at the head of the table and dictate new procedures or whatever.

ok, i have tons of work to do. hope you all have a nice day :)

anusha method

you have to be prepared to watch it in 3-4 sittings and you have to turn the tv off when you originally wanted to!! sometimes when it gets really good even after im ready for work I just lay in my bed and watch an extra 15 min thinking its ok if im late to work....but thats a bad idea and totally ruins the point of the method...

i had such a great night last night. my trip to philly was cancelled because of amtrak delays, so satyan and i wandered around midtown just talking and laughing :) we were going to see a movie but i decided that i just needed ME time so I went home, went to the gym for an hour, came home just put things away in my room and was by myself. it was great!

today im gonna work out after work then meet the girls for a celebratory dinner for rupa finally switching to her new role :)

as much as i like what i learned while studying, i think i could get used to this whole no studying thing....

moonwalking and edgar

i really could care less about michael jackson's trial - but i find it funny that rupa remarks on it with no need to identify who or what is not guilty :) it took me a while to figure it out . . .

edgar was annoyed because i didn't call him until he was at work on saturday and then he felt that my message was less than lovesick puppy. since he called me while he was with esther, he sees no reason that i shouldn't call him while i'm with you guys - which i agree! but we got back from shopping after he would have gone to work and i didn't think about it before then. so there was arguing and talking and we're better :) although now his new pet peeve (which may have been part of his original issues) is that i might push back my moving date to august 1st and he's really upset about that.

i thought i was doing so well in the anusha method of netflix watching . . . but really, it was giving me a false sense of how much i'd watched. i thought i only must have like half an hour maybe 40 minutes left of kinsey. yeah, not so much def more like an hour + left . . .

not guilty?!?!?!?

i can't believe it. he just looks so guilty...

you guys are the best :)

julie i saw your message from friday :) rupa - you should take more vacations to soho!!!

megan - what happened?? did he stay over last night?

my brother is funny - i stayed at satyans last night and got here at 830, and have been super busy since then so i never called them to say hi / talk about plans for tonight. when i finally did they were about to call satyan to ask if i was alive! they have his number now cause last night my phone was dead and i wanted to call them...

we had a great night last night :) after so much fun with everyone it was nice to have a relaxing night. we went out to dinner and then went home, he ironed my skirt for me :) and were like a 70 year old couple cause we both just wanted to read. so we read, then went back to being the 20 something couple that we are :) then went to sleep...

dev is not staying for that whole weekend with me :( we had a long talk this morning where he basically said he knows where he stands and he just wants to leave. he is leaving sat night. which means i cant go to montreal :( but i think thats best. i think after he leaves i will just be too sad to do much of anything and will prob like the idea of being by myself a bit.

jules - how was the movie?
rupa - hows the new job??

why

was edgar annoyed? your flight didn't get in late or anything, right? did i miss something yesterday?

i hear ya megan

i hit snooze for 2 hours this morning - i just couldn't get myself out of bed. i strolled into work like 30 minutes ago and i feel so happy and relaxed :)

sorry meg, didn't mean to rub it in or anything. . .

anyways, hope you all have a lovely morning!

i'm sleepy now

you know all those 8am mornings?
they are catching up to me.
i landed at quarter of 12 to an annoyed edgar - and was up until 1:30 talking to him until we weren't annoyed with one another any more. then i watched about 15 minutes of kinsey (i'm trying the anusha approach to netflix moving watching)
but i'm happy :) i just wish i were asleep . . .

back to work...

but still so happy from the weekend! good morning good morning good morning! i had a great three-day vacation in soho...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANUSHA!

i know nobody will be reading this until monday, but i figured i'd put it out there anyways :-)

directions are fine :)

and i'm pretty sure i can get from the subway to rupa's. i'm not TOO worried . . .

and its not going to be a back pack or the green bag - its going to be my black puma bag that i got last time in nyc :) it is the perfect weekend travel bag because it fits everything AND fits in overhead compartments :)

i'm trying to actually still rent the apartment - i might just live in my present apartment for an extra month. Heidi's other lease (the new roommate) ends july 15th - so hopefully she'll be ok with staying there until closer to that date. Then, jess is completely fine with me staying in the apartment until august 1st (she has an extra bed in her room) it would just be crowded :( BUT i'd only have to move once (well, one and a half 'cause i'd have to move some of my stuff at least into storage so heidi has room to move in) but i think heidi is on a pretty tight budget so she'll probably be really ok with me helping out with the apartment costs for the month of july.

directions

ok, so I'd suggest taking the LIRR (Long Island Railroad) to Penn station. I think it's faster than taking the subway, and it's not complicated or expensive. it's $5 for the airtrain, and it's $5 for an off-peak ticket on the LIRR (make sure you get off-peak).

you need to take the air train to the LIRR at Jamaica station. From there, you just need to buy a ticket and get on a train to Penn Station. at penn station, take the 2, 3 uptown to 96st (the 2, 3 is the red line).

the the airtrain ride takes about 12 minutes, and the ride to penn station takes about another 15-20 minutes. and then from penn station to rupa's is about another 10 maybe? so hopefully travel time wont' be too bad. call one of us when you get off the subway at 96st, and we'll give you directions to rupa's :)

sorry if these directions are confusing - I'm not feeling very coherent right now. I need some more sleep. and for my head to stop pounding. . .

that sucks!!

are there any other apts in that building? do you now have to start from scratch again?

i just called julie and asked to to blog other suggestions. either way you have to switch so its up to you - theyll both prob be around the same time. i guess switching doesnt matter since youll only have your back pack and the green bag you always bring :)

hello, directions!

rupa or julie . . . nush passed the "giving me directions" torch on to you two! otherwise, I'll follow nush's suggestions . . .

i just got horrible news. i dropped off my application and deposit check last night for the apartment - and i got a phone message today from the realtor that the landlord changed something and the apartment isn't available until august.

let the celebration begin :)

but a nap sometime in all this would be soooo nice! im exhausted. my old body isnt used to all this.

directions

that needs to be rupa or julie...

it doesnt seem convenient to take the subway all the way from rupas because youd have to switch at least once. so they will prob recommend taking the LIRR to penn station and then switching to the 2-3 to 96. ive never taken the LIRR so theyll have to tell you :) but if you have to switch either way:

for the subway you can take airtran to Jamaica, then take the E train from there to 50th street, then switch to the C train. and take it uptown to 96th street. My guess is it would take you about an hour this way and cost 7 bucks...

super cute :)

reminder - either today or tomorrow, someone needs to post explicit directions from airport to rupa's apartment!

rochester

no although 550 sounds mighty tempting, i like our overpriced apt in soho and i wouldnt trade it in for anything!

lunch was so fun :) he kept telling me i looked like one of the girls in a shampoo commercial since my hair looks so perfect :)

just girls

its ok, thursday night should be just the girls anyway if rupa is going to cook for us :) as long as satyan knows that this weekend is of double importance because 1. its your birthday and 2. he gets to meet me :) and jules - same for joe! he's already met me and anusha's not your girlfriend but . . . i hope he's around at some point this weekend too :)

edgar saw the apartment and i'm going to go straight to the realtor after work, i'd really like to see the apartment again and see the laundry room (which neither edgar nor i thought to look at) and then i'm going to submit my application and deposit! and nush - you are going to hate my budget $550 a month including heat, water, garbage and parking :) I'll pay electric and cable/internet and i'm not going to get a phone line. Electric will be about $40 a month, so it just depends on how many channels i want . . . so my total apartment expenses will add up to a little under $650 a month. jealous? thinking of moving to rochester? :)

it is the ugly building (so ugly!) if i end up renting it, i'll get edgar to take some digital pics of the outside and send them to you. it looks like a dentists office. ok, got to work!

i love it too :)

our bday celebrations are the best.

satyan is taking me out to lunch today to amma (my fav indian restaurant). rupa - remember our vegeetarian eating conversation? (quick summary, rupa asked if i eat veggie when im around him and i said yes but it doesnt bother me) amma is the only place it bothers me!!! they have this one chicken dish which is realllly good and i cant get it when im with him - mostly cause i had eating a meal by myself and i like sharing with people :) he is a cutie though...he cant hang out with us thurs night cause he has practice for his band at 10 pm!!! but hell be there friday...

the bday girl looks great!

i love that we celebrate birthdays for like 2 weeks :)

but yea, anusha's hair looks awesome. i miss jason too, nush. i think i'm going to call them again with the hope that he decided come out of retirement and start cutting hair again. . .

i already told nush, this, but I just moved to erica's old desk in my office. she had the best desk - right by the window (we raffled the desks when we first moved in, and i lost and got the shitty desk in the corner). dude, I feel like I should be wearing sunglasses and a bathing suit just while sitting here! it's sooo sunny . . .i love it! :)

whoever came up with this whole 9-10 hour work day, 5 days a week??? i just wanna go outside for a couple of hours and lay out in the sun. . .

straightened!

my hair looks great :) im not sure i love the haircut since i was getting used to jason (the guy in LI) cutting my hair, but that can be changed...I love it being straight though - i love waking up and looking in the mirror and liking my hair. esp with all the other stuff going on with my hair it was just starting to frustrate me...anyway i really like it :) apparently so do other people cause ive gotten 3 compliments already and its only 9 am!!!

megan im glad you found an apt! what is it like? is it the one with the outside you dont like? i dont think i want to know the answer to this question, but what is you "small budget" for rent? i dont think i want to know the answer because julie and i also had "small budgets" last summer and impretty sure its like double what you pay in rochester!!!

i cant wait to see you tomorrow :)

good morning!

i saw an apartment last night that i really liked. edgar is going to go see it today - so i may sign a lease before i leave on thursday :) that would make me really happy because i'm getting just a bit stressed out with realtors telling me that my budget is too small.

NIH is supposed be here right now. apparently she's a lot more laid back then the last auditor because they were here half an hour early . . . oh well, i'm not too worried.

testing

i think my method of blogging again works better...

ok :)

jules and rupa - jackie and i are going to meet at gucci tomorrow after work if you want to come with us :) they are having their sale and i just went there to check it out. since i have too many purses i couldnt find any one thing that I thought was necessary but so many nice things!!! so I called her to tell her to come with me so we could look at some wallets and such...

and i like the me not planning for friday :) so the decision is no dev on fri (maybe on sat but ill decide that later) and just satyan and maybe his friends on fri...the co workers i want to invite to some part of the evening are adam (our paralegal), patty, drew and steve (the two senior analysts), and ellen of course...thats basically it :)

i may email two people i went to high school with who moved to the city and see if they are around this weekend too...

i cant wait!!!

i do the refresh thing - i think bofa is weird sometimes...so when i post something that says it didnt post they both automatically show up...

blogs

you have to press refresh a few times and then they usually show up.. weird though. you shouldn't think about anything for friday.. just plan on showing up somewhere that we tell you.. and this time i think we will surprise the boyfriend too.. otherwise you'll harass him and find out the details :)

yay for this weekend.. i love love love birthdays.

i blogged but it didnt show up...

i liked the thurs idea too!

thurs

that sounds great. i dont have to work late. ill prob meet satyan after work for an hour or so then come up to the UWS and help you cook/hang out till megan gets there. that plan sounds great...

im i supposed to think of a place of friday night?? i dont have aplace im dying to go to - it has to have veggie options since satyans vegetarian - so no sushi...other than that not sure...

thursday night

i like the dinner at rupa's/j and a go home and me and rupa sleep in friday morning :)

ok, back to work! i need to leave here by 4:30!

they lost

i was so sad last night. i can't believe the heat lost -especially since they played well for 45 minutes, and then they just couldn't hold on to the lead during the last 3 minutes of the game. . .blah :(

nush, i'm glad your doctor's appt went well.

----- started writing this like an hour ago, went to lunch with rupa, just came back. . .

anyways, nush, good luck with the hair straightening!

hi hi

hello all :) i just had a nice lunch break with jules- and am in a much better mood.

i think we should do thursday at my place.. megan, i'm gonna take friday off to spend with you, so you can sleep over and we can sleep in, but jules/nush, you could take the subway home after we hang a bit.. i'll cook for you to make it worth your while :) otherwise, i don't think we'll make it uptown the rest of the weekend.. nush, do you have to work late on thursday night too? :( let me know.

yay.. i'm so excited!!! nush, good luck with your hair straightening.. can't wait to see it.

:-/

i guess i was wrong, i found time to check the heat score before you bloged about it. Thats too bad!! but its ok, megan will be here in two days so rupa can have a better day, you can forget about the heat, and i can just keep having fun :)

entertained :)

i liked reading the blogs.

i second rupas "dinner was sooo nice" rupa that was by far the highlight of my weekend :) and i spent all day laying around in bed with satyan watching tennis, making him breakfast, the first weekend day we've had together...but dinner with you was the best part!!1 i felt bad that i showed up at his apt at 11 30 :( he called to ask me where i was cause he wanted to go to sleep...thats when i left rupas. i should have just stayed at your place!! anyway it was fun.

and yesterday was great - my doctors apt wasnt as painful as the first time cause i put more numbing cream on. it wasnt fun but i wasnt crying....afterwards my mom and i went shopping. i have new clothes for the whole weekend!!!!! i cant wait :) i love marshalls but only when i go with my mom :) i feel like when i go by myself i get flustered at how much crap is there but with her im motivated to find the cute things in the mess...

i, goign to get my hair permanently straightened today :) its only like 150 bucks and it isnt the japanese style thing that makes it tooo striaght. im excited. im doing it in jersey - my cousin did it there last week and i like it and its cheaper...so the apt is at 730.

megan i think you should come to sullivan, cause i think on a weeknight for all of us to stay at rupas is too much (well its too much for me cause i actually have to work a lot on friday)...although if rupa is not working fridya you shoud jsut stay there so you guys can wake up and hang out together...you guys decide :) ill be free for lunch on fri though! there is a good/cheap sushi place near my office if you guys are free....

julie - i could look this up but i feel liek youll prob blog before i get a chance to look it up - did the heat win???

flight info

departing rochester at 7:15pm on flight #33 and will arrive at jfk at 8:25pm

departing jfk on sunday at 10:35pm on flight #30 and arriving in rochester at 11:45pm

really, i think its the exact same flights i had last time i came . . .

so i'm assuming i'll take subway to . . . actually, i don't know to where. am i going to sullivan street or rupa's? either way, someone can right out directions from the airport (you'd think i'd remember from visit to visit - but i don't)

i'm SOOOO excited!!!

but but...

it'll be perfect on the inside!!! you only have to look at your building on the way in and out.. but you'll have to hang out inside of it all the time :)

more importantly, WE'LL have to hang out in it when we visit... hey what time does your flight get in on thursday?

apartment hunting sucks

i get to go look at a couple more apartments tonight through a different realtor. one of the buildings is my least favorite building in the whole neighborhood - its brown and square and ugly and looks like a dentist's office on the outside. i'm a little afraid that it will be perfect on the inside and i'll end up living in the ugly building . . .

4:44

now is it time to go home? i'm going to try to last until 5:30. . .

Girls

i can't believe it's almost four!!!!!!! can we go home yet?

hello ladies

i'm here and i'm exhausted after yet another 7am flight. miami was so much fun. it was rainy and crappy all weekend, though, so i didn't get much sun. it's so nice here today - warm and sunny out. i'm actually glad to be back! well, not glad to be back at work, but oh well. . .

i'm so excited about the heat game tonight. i know none of you really care about basketball, but if miami wins tonight they go on to the nba finals. if they lose, the season's over. sooo. . .big game. especially since one of our best players got injured last thursday, so it's still uncertain if he will play today.

hmm, i don't know if i have any exciting stories from the weekend. i saw peter saturday night. he came clubbing with us for mari's birthday. i didn't really hang out with him at the club much. he was driving mari home at the end of the night, and i was going home with mari (because we live close to each other, so there was no point in making jackie go out of her way to take me home), so peter ended up driving me home saturday night with mari passed out drunk in the front seat. it was the longest ride in the world. we didn't say more than like 2 words to each other. oh well.

jackie and i succeeded in getting mari wasted for her birthday. she was way too sober after we'd been in the club for over an hour, so we started buying her shots. mari's the only person i know who can get drunk off of lemon drops. those shots are so girly and not strong!

anyways, i have a ton of work to do but little desire to actually do any of it. blah. rupa - cheer up! megan - how's the apt hunt?

hi :)

i was gonna blog a lot today but i'm kinda in a crappy mood so instead i'll just upload my brief version :)

i had a nice weekend.. saw ameya a bit on friday and a lot at his house on sunday which was very sweet... i also painted more and had dinner with nush last night which was sooooo nice.

ok.. enjoy your day, ladies!

ummm

i'm pretty sure that no one else is going to look at this blog today. . . . so i'm going to stop compulsively checking it and hope that someone comes back tomorrow :)

this weekend

ok, everyone should have long winded and exciting stories from this weekend. i do not. so let me live vicariously!!!!

nushie - test? post test?

rupa - ameya?

julie - miami?

bonding at rupas

that sounds wonderful. except this time we have to drink! instead of last time where we just played the sex and the city game and drank water the whole time!!!

i dont know what i want to do/where i want to go friday but I think saturday I want to go to free wine (the one near our place not rupas cause laguardia is much nicer) then go to remote since ive been talking about that forever :) friday i think dinner then dancing, the usual bday night (just minus the crappy food/experience at lucky chengs!)

next weekend and such

maybe we should have bonding time at rupa's apartment next weekend at some point :)

plans for this weekend - tonight, call 2 landlords.
tomorrow - walk dogs in the morning and in the afternoon either go see apartments with a realtor or go see puppies
sunday - my cousin's fiance's bridal shower

finally! :)

nush, i'm so excited for you! you'll finally be able to relax and have some fun again. i know you'll do great :)

i'm leaving for miami today for mari's 21st birthday. i'm excited - it should be a fun weekend. after this trip, i don't have another planned trip to miami until xmas! i'm actually looking forward to spending some time here and not having to travel every other week (although i'm sure i'll get bored of that pretty quickly).

you guys have to see rupa's apt - it looks great! we started painting her room and her kitchen yesterday (well, i helped her start, but then had to leave early. she probably finished the rest of it after i left). anyways, the colors she chose are perfect!

megan, do you have any plans for the weekend?

this is it :)

im here till 12 today, lunch with my mom, then study for a few hours and take it easy tonight.

i got the best email today - gucci is having a sale starting monday :) what better way to celebrate the fact that my test is over and my bday is in a week!!! :) im home monday for a doctors apt, but ill def be checking out that sale on tuesday when i get back...

rupa - sat at 5 (as soon as my test is done) patty and dev and his bro are going to meet me at puck fair (which is right across the street from my test center). Im gonna be with them till 630, then go home to meet satyan/go out to dinner with satyan. so if you can, come to puck fair! and if not ill call you around 9 to find out where you/ameya are and ill come meet you...

jackie asked me where i wanted to go next friday but i told her that honestly the bar is set sooo low now for what i need to do to have fun that really anything would be better than what ive been doing for the last few weekends!! i cant wait :)

the minions are taking over my life!

they are supposed to be getting something out of this experience so i feel pressured to truly teach them something . . . but i don't know anything!!!

but eun has them right now. so i get a couple minutes of down time . . .

i want a minion

im tired of being the minion.

rupa that sounds great :) im looking forward to seeing you guys on saturday night. studying is going well. at the point where i dont really know the best way to spend my evenings and what to focus on and really just waiting for saturday to be over with....

megan i cant wait to see you next week!!!

good morning all!

rupa - have fun with ameya :)
nush - almost there!
jules - i don't know . . .how's joe? :)

i got my first minion today. eun volunteered for summer students. she seems nice and i think i've already bored her . . . but my day has been productive so i don't really care :)

i talked to him yesterday afternoon and last night :)

he's good.. and things were not weird at all with us :) apparently i'm gonna see him a lot while he's here, which is good... i am gonna go to the fundraiser (mostly to see him, no offense jules!! :) )

but then i'm gonna go out and party with jules after :) i'm so glad he's around.. it's gonna be nice to catch up. nush, how is studying going? you are almost there!!! how exciting! :)

...and we have only been here for 2 days :)

i love that :)

rups - have you talked to ameya yet?/ are you going to julies fundrasier tonight? jules, can you send me the email about that again? i cant go, but i want to donate....

hump day!!!

just wanted to say good morning! :)