im not worried :)

i know youll take care of me :)

last night was fun - lots of roommate bonding. we watched an old movie - love me or leave me. it was good not spectacular but i liked it...

this week starts three weeks of shortened weeks for me :) im off tomorrow. next week is labor day, the week after that i have a doctors apt. its much easier to get through the day knowing that!

i think im going to go to macys/esprit today because i have a coupon and i want to check out their suits. esprit had really cute ones last time i was there...

hope you all have a lovely day!

no worries :)

i obviously am going to hope for the best, that you two will get along wonderfully.
but, on the off chance that you don't . . . i've turned an old cat carrier into her crate so she can spend time in there. also, she is very easy to avoid . . . she weighs about 3 or 4 lbs, if that so she's pretty easy to distract in a small area (say, rupa playing with her) and you can easily sit somewhere else and not be bothered. you will be taken care of though - don't worry :)

she is 12 weeks old and was purchased from a farmer who owns a jack russell and a pug and apparently thinks that is a normal pair to breed . .. although she is darn cute :)

i'll post pics as soon as they are taken :)

soo exciting!

megan i'm so excited for you and dollop! i can't wait to see pictures. you should take some pics and post them soon :) how old is dollop? did you get her at a pet store? or at a shelter?

nush, i hope you feel better! yoga yesterday was awesome, although it definitely required a lot more kneeling poses than my knee was ready for. oh well, i'll live.

rupa, you should also post the pics from this past weekend so we can all see them!

that is bad news for me!!!

can edgar baby sit the dog for the weekend?? :) i trust you though to figure out a better solution than mrs metzgar did so im not too worried :)

i had another sleepless night. satyan is such a trooper for wanting me to stay over when he knows im in pain and he wont get any sleep. he got up at 3 in the morning to get me advil :) we watched awakenings. it was really good. its about this doctor who finds a "cure" for catatonic patients. the acting was great. tongiht i want to try to go to the gym and look for gold shoes to wear with jackies dress that im wearing to the wedding tonight...

yay!!!

how exciting :) and i think dollop is the cutest name. i can't wait to meet her :)

yup, that's the place . . .

and i have super bad news for anusha and julie . . . .

julie, you are going to miss out . . .

anusha - i got a dog . . .

but she's sooo cute :) a pug/jack russell mix, she looks like a light brown pug with her nose stretched out into a normal doggy snout! her name is dollop. edgar suggested it, i think as a joke after having it as a word in taboo . .. but i thought it was great 'cause she's a little dollop of a dog :) i've only had her for 12 hours, but so far she's very playful and doesn't bark (i've heard her once so far) she's not so keen on stairs, but we're working on it. and so far she hasn't experienced the joy of pooing outside - which we are working on also. i got the smallest body harness petco sold and its as a tight as it can go . . . . still a little too big.

i think i need to go to buffalo this weekend to pick up my bridesmaid dress, so i think i'll bring her with me to meet my grandparent's german shepard and my aunt's boxer and two cats . . . the cats are by far larger than the dog right now :)

haha

http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/

look what i discovered - they have one in the city :)

yes

dinosaur bbq - a biker bar/bbq joint :) you know you love it . . .

i volunteer to stock my kitchen! plus, i can take you to the grocery store that is renowned (not just wegman's, the pittsford wegman's . . . i've heard that cher visited it while she was here on tour its so amazing . . .) and we can pick out stuff :)

apparently, my lack of ekta love is 'cause i'm never online. i'm online right now and getting bombarded with questions . . . including "when are you coming to dc?"

my requests

i would like to eat smoked gouda while laying on your couch all day sunday :) I also want rupa to make guac and to be drinking hoegarden that costs like 2 bucks!! (really i will prob leave there having gained 10 pounds....)

game night sounds fun to me :) I thought it was lame too but then we did it and it was so much fun. we can make a lot of appetizer type things (the girl made this baked brie and rasberry jam thing that was amazing. i volunteer to learn how to make that).

also you wanted to go to that meat eating place right? :)

other things to do...

can we also go to the mall and maybe to a target? i am obsessed with suburban shopping... unless we never make it up off the couch like last time. that's fine too :)

rochester boy

that's awesome . . . you'd think in a big city, you wouldn't be able to find the 10 random guys visiting from rochester . . .

i'm up for any netflix-ing you'd like to do :) if you want to do 24, what episodes? i think i've pretty much talked edgar into being the driver for the wine tour - so, i was thinking we'd plan it out and go to a couple different wineries and do all the sampling and eat lunch at one of them. i also figured we'd buy a couple bottles of samples we really enjoyed. we'd go out to dinner in rochester and then afterwards (this may sound lame but after anusha told me about her weekend with satyan's friends, it just sounds fun) we'd have game night and drink the wine we purchased during the day! i would invite people over so it would be a small-ish party of games like balderdash, taboo, etc . . . i'm just a lot more interested in celebrating joking and chatting with friends then playing the meat market game at a bar. friday night is jess's bday, so i'm going to see what she has planned for that . . .

one reason i love blogs...

is that you can do this...

this is the rochester boy

he wasn't really worth noting.. but i thought the coincidence was funny

what rochester boy???

Girls

me too!

and i'm behind on 24 so i hope we can catch up... funny enough i got a call from that rochester boy today saying "hey rupa, aren't you coming to rochester soon"? his message reminded me that his name was actually tim, but i don't remember anything else about him, nor do i planning on seeing him again. it was a funny coincidence though.

just bought my ticket to rochester :)

fri the 23rd at 815 and coming back on the monday 6 am flight :) megan you better have good netflix movies for that weekend!

monday

it's so nice to see a blog already :) i also am glad we found a weekend that worked.. and i really had fun. plus it was good that the rain was on sunday and not saturday. megan, how was your drive back? i had a fun night w my dad.. i didn't get home till 1030 but we had a nice dinner and sat up talking a long time. i left home at 630 this morning so i'm still a little.. a lot sleepy :)

my bosses are out this week so it's busy but chill in terms of random meetings and unannounced check-ups. enjoy your day, ladies!!

i cant believe the weekend is over already

i had a lot of fun. im glad we were all able to find a weekend that worked. i wonder how long it will last that 1. we have the house and 2. that we all can make it!

i didnt sleep at all last night. i had the worst cramps :( satyan basically was awake the whole night too with me.

jules i may skip yoga today if my cramps are really bad - its prob not a good idea to go to yoga when im in that much pain right? if i skip the gym ill prob just go to satyans and watch one of our movies..

suggested packing list

i figured i'd bring towels, sleeping bag, probably an extra blanket or two and some pillows . . .

one more day :)

i cant wait. the weather is supposed to be great too.

megan dont forget towels, maybe your sleeping bag...

puerto ricans

haha. i'm sure jose oscar would write a glowing recommendation of you. hey, he likes you a lot more than he likes me :)

speaking of puerto ricans, i emailed luis today to tell him i'm going to puerto rico for labor day. it turns out he'll be in the US over most of the weekend, but we'll get to hang out all day and night on monday. i'm waiting for him to give me a list of "must-see" places in PR. are there any other puerto ricans, besides marlene, that are on the island right now that i'd want to hang out with? i can't think of any. . .

yea, it's sad, but i don't think any of my professors know me, either. i have high school teachers that still adore me, though!

but i never had the same one twice . . .

there was one prof that i would love to get a glowing recommendation from . . . but she had me as a student three years ago - i just don't think she'd remember me! and there is a letter of recommendation on file with the lab i did my urop at, but that has nothing to do with my academics AND they have a form they want filed out, the grad student is long gone . . .

think jose oscar could write one for me? :) :) :)

yes thats bad :)

ill try to brianstorm ideas for teachers...werent there any course 9 profs that knew you? i dont think i could come up with one for me either...geez - we went to one of the best schools and we cant even think of a prof to prove we went there!!

problem with the orgo prof

i hated him. i thought he was worthless.

i know this sounds WICKED bad . . . but i had a great math teacher in high school, my calc teacher so TECHNICALLY he taught me a college level course . . . he's retired but goes to my church . . . that's really bad, right?

penn!!!

i hope you go there. philly is so much cooler than ithace (is that where the cornell vet school is?)

i think you should call mit and ask them how you go about getting a signature like that. how did you do in the organic chem class you took in rochester? could you get a reco from that teacher?

vet school

ok, i think i've decided.
i'm going to apply to u of georgia, u of illinois-urbana, and u of penn. do you notice that cornell, my state's state school, is not on the list? yeah, that would be because there is NO WAY they would accept me - and i would need to have 1. an evaluation from someone on my academic performance 2. a certificate signed by the dean of student life from the school where i got my BS . . . by 10/1????

maybe next year. or maybe i'll still try and i'll . . . email the dean? but i still don't have a teacher for my evaluation!!!

i'm going home and watch house.

vet school

prob at 1:30 or 2

i just mapquested rochester to colchester to get a ball park time . . . it said 5 hours and 47 minutes . . . so, if you guys are planning to be there around 7:30, we'll probably plan to head out at 1:30 and actually make it on the road sometime around 2 :)

dude - this means i get to sleep in!!!!

prob at 730?

we just need to stop by my house in CT (which is on the way) so i can pick up my car so we have an extra car if necessary and it prob shouldnt take us more than 3 hours...provided we actually get out of here at 430 and provided that most people in NY are trying to get to the hamptons and not colchester ct :)

thank you!

i'll take your back suggestions :)
i feel like there should be some magical stretch i can do that will suddenly just relax the muscle but i haven't found it . . . i'll take your suggestions and see if they help :)

if you leave @4:30, when does that put you in CT? i don't really want to beat you there . . . i'm taking the whole day off from work, so i can leave whenever i want :)

headcount

doesnt really matter. i picked a menu for the indian food that will only cost us 6 per person and it will be more food than you can imagine :) i love my parents connections...

but i hope he comes so you can drive with someone!!! did the direction email make sense?

we are planning on leaving the city at 430 or so - depending on when ellen and i can get out of work. unfortunately this friday is a really busy day for me workwise but i think im just going to be stubborn and leave at 430 anyway...i hope i can do that...

my back has been hurting a lot lately too. megan i think ice is better than heat - thats what they always told me when i had all those back issues back in college. i used a heat pad and the chiropractor yelled at me. also do a lot of stretches. the cat stretch is the best one (on your hands and knees and roll up and down with you back) also if you sort of squat and flatten your back and push your arms out, thats a really good stretch...ive been doing those a lot these days but also working out a lot so i think they are counterproductive....

leaving rochester

i had a horrible night - at some point last week, i hurt my back. i spent all of last night waking up every couple of hours and attempting to move which hurt like hell. it hurt so much that i could barely get out of bed this morning and was in tears because of how much it hurt. edgar convinced me to call the lab and tell them i'd be in later and stay home take some advil and lay on my hot pad until i felt a little better . . . so i did. now, i still don't have normal rotation of my neck and my back is keeping me very aware that it still hurts like a bitch . . . but i'm here!

i have no idea when i'm leaving rochester . . . what time are you guys planning to get to CT? when i leave depends greatly on the answer to that . . . plus, i have no idea whether edgar is going. over the weekend, he said he wasn't when he was upset with me. then we were better so i assumed he was. then last night he said he was "on the fence" i know you want a definite head count . . . and i'm still holding out hope that by friday, he'll have kicked the funk he likes to slip into lately, but i needed to share because after my horrible night everything is getting me depressed . . .

good morning :)

im in such a good mood today even though im totally exhausted. my classes at the gym were awesome and just what i needed after my day of work, then i hung out with the girls for a bit, had an awesome salad and pizza dinner with satyan while hanging out with julie then he and i just talked from like 9-1. it was so nice :) no tv no movie just us. i may be at work late tonight but i never know these days and then im gonna go over to his place and work on the taj puzzle...we havent worked on it since the first day...

megan what time will you be leaving rochester on friday?

its been a hell of a day

im going home and going to the classes at the gym that i like.

i cant wait till friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ill email them...

i need to check with my mom and make sure of them. the directions from mapquest are weird...

nushie . . .

can i get directions to the lake house?
or an address?

hello ladies

i had a great/awful weekend. . . .

i talked to the vet i volunteer with as this was my last weekend. i will be going on a couple random thursday in september - thursdays are surgery days and i had been previously invited to sit in - but this was my last friday/saturday as next weekend i'll be in connecticut (yeah!) and the week after that starts classes.

edgar and i got in a wicked fight thursday evening. well, it started out as him pouting, lasted through to saturday and culminated today with my yelling and both of us crying. he didn't like that i went out on saturday because it meant that our sunday morning together was screwed up and we hadn't had on alone since july. i wanted to go out since i never do. since we're all better now (in fact, better than before because, as always, it meant all kinds of sidetracked discussions on issues that we didn't know were bothering one another) i'm soo glad i went out saturday! we went to daisy dukes which is a country bar in rochester. there is a mechanical bull, which i convinced alex (my summer student and in case you didn't know female) to ride. plus, it plays country and 80s music so we were all singing along all night. jess came out and we ended up going to her place after the bar closed. gen crashed on my futon. i felt like a fun social person for a night!

now i'm totally slacking on lab work which will bite me in the ass tomorrow when i do the 4 experiments i've resolved to crunch into one day since eun is presenting data in 2 weeks at a conference in england and is on service all of next week . . . but for tonight, i'm just here to check my email :)

hi

when is bryan coming down- if my sister comes, rooz will have a ride there and back, but if she doesn't.. is bryan driving down too? i'll definitely let you know about them by monday :)

bryan can drive him back

im glad they are coming! if you could tell me definitely about them by monday or so then i can tell my mom the number of people so she can order the indian food. i went over the menu/plans with her yesterday :) im excited.

yay

that was just the cutest blog to read, jules :) i'm so excited for your day with julia. the libraries here are so so beautiful. how exciting :) i also remember first getting my library card.. i love libraries..

how is everyone else doing? this week has been super busy for me, but nice b/c a lot of it i spent working from the comforts of my home.

nush/jules, i'm inviting myself over for sunday movie watchin :) that'll be a nice way to end the weekend. megan- we see you in a week! woo hoo :)

my sister is going to come to the lake house and rooz is too most likely.. he just needed a ride and i think my sister can probably drive them both down. don't know about jamy :)

happy friday!

good morning ladies! so, i was tired and grumpy when i woke up at 6:20 this morning, but i guess i'm finally awake now because i'm in the best mood! i got into work pretty early so i'm going to try to leave around 4:30. i love the thought of leaving early :) and i'm just so excited about spending a whole weekend in the city. i'm hanging out with julia tomorrow. we're making brownies, we're going to the library, and we're making a thank-you card for our hosts last weekend and a get-well card for the woman who hurt her ankle. i'm excited about going to the library - i've never been in nyc. we're both going to get library cards, and then i want to check-out "little house on the prairie" so we can read it together. since we stayed in a log cabin last weekend, i was telling her how people used to live in log cabins without running water or electricity or telephones or tvs, and she didn't believe me. i remember i read the "little house" books when i was in 3rd grade, too, and i LOVED them (because i'm a big dork), so hopefully she'll enjoy it.

you know what's weird - i don't remember a lot of things from when i was in 2nd grade, but i clearly remember the saturday afternoon my father took my brother and me to the library to get library cards for the first time. i guess it must have made quite an impact on a nerdy 2nd-grader. dorky, huh? anyways, i'm excited about the stuff julia and i are doing tomorrow. and then sunday anusha and i are going to laze around the apt and watch movies. doesn't that sound lovely?

anyways, i hope you all have a great day :)

classes

linguistics - junior year, maybe 1st semester?
and family was second term sophomore year.

i'm pretty sure i know where i have a copy of my transcripts at home. i'll look tonight if i get a chance and i can tell you for sure.

that sucks that you dont have onlineaccess to your transcripts anymore. i guess it makes sense, but still . . .

yup

second term soph year. you are applying for vet schools for this fall?

i think ill apply for 07 now...

no more alex

transcripts

i don't think i can because i signed on to the alumni part and it was like no phone calls, if someone else wants to pick it up there has to be an already signed permission slip for them to have yours and you can mail or fax a request, but allow a couple days for them to send them to you . . .

i don't think you can

anymore.. since we don't have MIT certificates anymore- you should be able to just ask the office to email you a copy. they can send it to your alum account....

random question

anyone know the immediate way you can see a transcript? remember the unofficial one we used to see on websis? i'm attempting to remember the whats and whens of my college classes, and it turns out i don't really remember . . .

if you guys don't know - jules, do you remember when we took linguistics? how about when we took family? nush, you took spanish III with me second term sophomore year, right?

helllooooo

i'm sleepy . . . i got here early so i could get one thing done before lab meeting . . .

i'm ready to be accepted to vet school now.

g'morning

how was the movie last night? nush/jules, i'm around this weekend.. (I can't believe we are all overlapping!!) so we should hang out.. nush, you should come to the improv show on friday :)

good mood killed.

i didnt pass...

i found out at like 3. went for a walk with patty. she bought me some pecan pie :) its a sickening feeling. oh well...i did my best...im going to not think about it for a month or so and then decide if i want to study again...

this weekend

i don't have any real plans for most of the weekend, either. . .and i love it!

i'm going to see julia either saturday or sunday - i'm not sure yet.
friday night i'm going to scott's 2-man improv show with rupa. it's just $8 at 8:00pm if you and satyan want to come. he's pretty funny. hmmm...other than that, i think i'm free. my goal is to get a ton of sleep this weekend. . .i don't think i need any help with that. but, i'm sure we can find fun things to do in the city the rest of the time :)

i'll give you a call when i'm free today - probably around 8ish.

i want it to be 5:00 o'clock already!!!

:)

i like keeping one weekend a month to just be in NY - that in itself is a plan!!

by the way - a weekend/week of mine just got booked to be in san fran for a conference :) im sooo excited!

uhoh someone has kidnapped anusha . .

nush - you have a weekend practically free of plans and its already wednesday!!!! does this really happen?! i was under the impression you were booked through june of 2007 . . .

im in a good mood too

ive accomplished so much today. i love it.

jules im gonna go to the gym from work and then go there...if its crowded we are just going to go somewhere to have a drink or hang out so def call me around 8 when you get out

jules what are you up to for the weekend? im free fri night (but satyan will prob hang out with us if we do something since he is going home on sat) and then sat i have to go dress shopping all day but im free after dinner, and sunday im free all day - if you have fun city things you want to do and want company let me know :)

feeling rather worthless

i guess i'm in a good mood because i'm not in a particularly bad mood . . . but i'd rather be pretty much any where other than here . . .

the lake house is so soon! (i just looked at the calendar in front of me) now i am in a good mood :) except that i have a lot to accomplish by then . . .

ditto

i really liked "born into brothels", megan. you should definitely add it to your netflix queue.

nush, i think i might join you guys for the movie. i'm going with jackie to the MAC store in the evening, but it closes at 8 so i should be able to meet up with you guys. . .i'll give you a call, ok?

i'm in the best mood today! it's a gorgeous day out - sunny and warm, but not hot or humid at all. and i'm looking forward to this wine-and-cheese celebration we have this evening for one of my coworker's (katy) birthday. and life is good :-)

hope you all have a lovely wednesday!

born into brothels

megan you should def see it. it is very very sad but the cinematography is amazing. i saw it with jules and satyan last night.

rupa - do you want to come to the movie on the hudson tonight at 830??

wow

cant' believe alex is going to grad school. luck you, nush! megan, good luck with all the vet school stuff. . .

nothing new on my end - just wishing it were closer to the end of the week.

why waiting is good

but i'm probably not going to get into vet school on my first try, so really you are just holding off so that you can go to school with me :)

good morning

news from my front:
alex quit yesterday...he is going to grad school at berkeley...he just found out and he has to be there next week, so thurs is his last day.

which is good in the sense that we are going to hire our intern full time - and i love her. she and i work very well together. and she will do most of my crap work which is good :) but at the same time it totally kills my thoughts of moving on at least for the next few months....

i saw million dollar baby last night - i liked it a lot. i didnt like seeing it by myself though it was way too sad for that...im finally going to watch born into brothels tonight.

not yet posted actually

because i haven't figured it out yet :)
cornell, def.
i was thinking UF - but i don't think i have a chance of getting in . . . maybe u of illinois. i think i might have a chance at u of auburn (in alabama) but i don't think i want to go there. i can't get in to UC Davis or U of NC . . . . and that's as far as i looked . . .

damn those indian people...

the post doc sounds annoying :)

georgia seems so far away.. where else are you applying again? i know i could probably just read that in an old blog but it's so much fun just asking you.

stupid post doc

there is this indian post doc who i think is fed up with the lab and just wants to publish a paper and get out of here. i think she is starting to make everyone else around here want her to just publish a paper and get out of here . . . emphasis on get out of here. i get to recount all of my plates of a previous series of experiments - just to see what the numbers look like . . . so, i signed up on the machine - the fastest one, which also happens to have the scanner. big no no to count on the scanning computer but i don't care, i only signed up for 2 hours first thing in the morning. anagha (the post doc) gets here a couple of minutes ago and is like are you using the computer (um, yeah . . . i'm signed up and the computer is in use) and then she's like are you almost done? actually, i signed up for two hours, the first of which isn't finished. SHOCKING! i signed up for a machine i actually want to use! so, she is attempting to push me off. actually, no - i have every right to be using this computer and you can wait your turn.

oh a completely different note . . . i think i'm going to apply to u of georgia . . .

i like all the blogs too!

jules - your weekend sounds awesome :)

also - i like to hear all this fly to rochester talk :) :) :)

i think you guys will love my apartment. hopefully, the aloe plants that i repotted this weekend will still be alive in a month . . .

so many blogs!!!

what a pleasant surprise!

if we want, we could look into taking the train to stamford and renting a car from there - or we can take the train to New haven - a bit more expensive, i think 18 there and it should be 13 back. but we wont have to rent a car - my mom could come pick us up and drop us off at the lake but only if we go to new haven and i have to check and make sure she is free that day...

ill look into price for renting a car in stamford...


for rochester - im going to take the 815 flight on friday because the 520 is too early for me. coming back i think id rather take the sunday night flight at 715, but that is 20 more, so if you guys want to take the monday 6 am flight id be open to that too...


ravi uncle brother in law passed away yesterday. ive been in kinda of a blah mood since i found out yesterday morning. he was so young and basically i think was unfortunate that he and his wife are very uneducated and i dont think they took care of his health enough. he was really young. ravi uncle is flying to india tomorrow, so he and nalini auntie came today to get a visa. i just me them and had lunch with them. it was nice to see him and give him a hug...

eewwww

i can honestly say there have NEVER been any fantasies with bryan. yuck. umm, that's ok, i'm just looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend :-)

rupa, i like your idea of taking the metro north out to CT - that would give us the added advantage of skipping traffic. i haven't bought my ticket for rochester yet. what times were you guys thinking of flying in/out?

megan, it sounds like you had such a productive weekend! i spent the weekend "camping" with julia. although we weren't really camping - we stayed in a huge beautiful log-house near the delaware river. it was so much fun! rups and nush, you've heard this all already. . .everyone i met was incredible - i'm so impressed by people's generosity. the whole camping trip is organized by these two men who decided to build a gorgeous log-cabin and donate it to the family center for their use, and they're there almost every weekend year-round hosting these trips. they were incredible, so attentive and thoughtful and kind. the house has 6 bedrooms - 1 for the 2 guys that run it, and then the other 5 are guest rooms, each with 2 twin beds, so there were 5 buddy pairs there. and the house looked like it was taken out of catalog of fancy vacation homes - martha stewart would have been jealous of everything in the house! everything was top-of-the-line and just way more than you would ever expect - especially at a house where little kids run around wild and free. and the little girls were so sweet and adorable. it was just a great experience all around. . .

bryan and julie

with the dwindling numbers, we're running out of bacholerette options . . . nushie and i come pre-equipped with boys, rups got one across the globe . . . looks like its up to julie. and the options are dwindling . . . . this could be a weekend to fulfill long forgotten college fantasies for bryan :)

cars

hi everyone :) i am so excited for the lake house. hey nyc girls, hve you guys bought your tickets for rochester? the last time i looked jet blue was 49 each way but i didn't buy yet.

anyway about cars, manhattan is always way overpriced for car rental which is why it's 100 a day.. we should go across to jersey or take the metro north right into ct and then rent a car- i just checked jersey prices and it's 50 a day (but i'm sure we can find cheaper too).

deshaw's rates don't tend to be cheaper.. they are just 10% off the regular rate (or maybe 20%) but diff places weekend deals tend to be much cheaper than that. (and the deshaw thing lets you rent without paying the under 25 fee.. but yay on not having to worry about that anymore).

don't know about rooz and jamy.. i'll ask rooz today.

no ones flying

in fact the number of people is dwindling - i think its just the 4 of us, edgar, bryan, and ellen. satyan cant make it. sandi doesnt want to come. i havent heard from rooz or jamy - rupa do you know?

i think we need to rent a car from here but from what ive been finding its like 100 a day...rups/julie are there de shaw corporate rates which would be better? we should probably look into that soon - im not sure if car rentals are like flights and the earlier you book it the better rate you get?

lake house

i'm planning to drive up friday morning and drive back on sunday and yes edgar is coming :) so - if there is anything you need me to bring (extra towels pillows etc) that people flying in won't have room to pack . . . . i'll have a whole car with only two people :)

sounds like fun

i cant believe you already have a dress for the wedding and the wedding isnt till next year! i think we are going dress shopping this weekend...

i had an awesome weekend. i went to a dinner party fri night at satyans friends house - i feel so grown up going to a "dinner party" with 3 couples. it was a lot of fun. we slept over there then went white water rafting in delaware. that was a lot of fun. yesterday i slept till 130, read for a while and then went out for a nice mac and cheese dinner at a fancy steak house :) the joys of becoming vegetarian....

megan what are you plans for driving to the lake? edgar is coming right?

my busy weekend

the vet said apply this year. sooo . . . i think i'm going to be stressed for the next couple of weeks.
thursday - i went to a dinner party at eun's - it was fun. then, i met up with jessie and clark (who was in rochester for 24 hours) i got home about 11 and went to bed because . . . friday morning, i got up and was on the road by 7:15am. spent the day at the vet's then my mom spent the night in auburn with me so we picked up my grandma from the nursing home she is now staying in, took her out to dinner and walmart and then took her back. my mom and i stayed up for a while talking about what i'm going to do with my life and what my brother is doing with his. saturday - back at the vet's until 1ish, then i went back to rochester, took a shower and relaxed for about 2 hours. i drove to buffalo and met up with my cousin. we hung out and jennifer (my cousin), mark (her husband), and myself walked to the everclear concert. it was nice getting to hang out with her, the concert was ok but she had had just enough to drink that she wanted to have a discussion on the status of our familial relationship in the middle of the concert (her mom and our aunt not so secretly recent one another since my grandma had a stroke) we got back to their house around midnight and i went to sleep on the couch. nicky (jennifer's eldest son) woke me up at 7:30ish but let me fall back asleep. at 9 i woke up again hung out for a little while and then made nicky cry when i said i had to leave. breakfast with my grandparent's and mom and aunt cindy followed up by a trip to david's bridal to try on the bridesmaid dress. that's all ordered now - i just don't know what shoes because steve didn't have an answer for me when i asked what missy wanted me to wear. its pretty - strapless with beadwork on the top, lilac colored. then, drive back to rochester. i ended up back in my apartment a little after 3. i was too zonked to deal with going to work (i love my job some days . . .) so, i did some laundry and repotted some plants . . . very relaxing. i was up until almost 1am though because edgar didn't get there until 11 and i hadn't seen him since friday morning :( now i'm at work!

howd it go megan?

megan how was the vet thing? are you going to apply for next fall? did you take the gmat yet?

i think after work im going to go to B&N to check that out...i keep having doubts...i wish i just knew if i passed the second test or not. i think my outlook things would be different then...

last night was fun - went for drinks with my coworkers then finished watching sliding doors with satyan. i love that movie :)

rupa and megan what are you up to for the weekend? jules is going camping, im going white water rafting...

in fifteen minutes . . .

i'm going to meet with the u of r vet and have him tell me whether i should apply this year or next . . . i'm a bit nervous

lab meeting

so, a couple things i completely disagreed with - but it would have kind of "nauh! that's not what i do!" then, some other stuff i just didn't agree with what he was saying - but i can't say he was wrong. he was gently told his summer was a farce by tim, which i think was bad enough.

i only get frustrated with eun! which is bad. she's a very nice person - but she just isn't cut out for research. she is doing too many things and research is a 24/7 job. she's not on top of the latest journals or constantly rehashing her data because she doesn't have time. therefore, her science has some gaping holes when presented which instead of learning from, she bullshits her way through. so, its very frustrating . . .

interns and sleepiness

when did your interns start presenting your stuff? cant you interject and correct them if they are wrong? or are they not really wrong you just didnt like what they said? :)

i thought lab meetings always made you fall asleep not furstrated...

i dont think my sleepiness in shows is a function of how little sleep i get (which is way too little...) cause i came home and was wide awake :) my assessment to satyan yesterday was that its cause im not talking or doing something, i get sleepy just sitting there.

getting sleepy

do you think getting sleepy in the middle of a show you are really enjoying could be a sign you aren't getting enough sleep?

so - the summer students that were working with eun presented at lab meeting today. basically, they were both presenting my data that they had analyized. alex wasn't that bad because her analysis had nothing to do with my technique. neal's project was basically a break down of whether my technique sucked or not. really, i shouldn't get defensive but there were a couple of points that i wanted to stand up and be like wait a second! that well looks so bad because its possibly the worst well i have and then he said that i get background in my IL-5 plates - which i don't!!!! so, it was annoying. and then eun's new catch phrase is apparently "absolutely" because she said it in response to basically everything that came out of tim's mouth - regardless of whether she would have agreed to that had it been alex or neal or myself talking to her about it in private - suck up much??? yeah, i know he's your boss but the nature of science and research is to question!

lab meetings with eun make me angry.

how was the de shaw party?

the de shaw girls have been mia for a while...but hopefully theyll come back to write about the party last night!

i saw wicked last night - it was awesome!! it was sort of like finding neverland in that it was about the wizard of oz before the wizard of oz...the actresses were awesome. i always get so sleppy at these things though - the whole time i just wanted to fall asleep! but i managed to stay awake through the whole thing....

born into brothels

i haven't seen it yet but its on my list :)
you can watch it and review it for me and tell me whether i should bump it up higher

born into brothels

megan have you seen this?? it won an oscar for best documentary so its next on my netflix queue. one of satyans friends used to be an MD at bear stearns and he quit to make documentaries! i had a fun time talking to him about this one last night - hopefully ill get it sometime this weekend...

fun!

is she still in boston? do you talk to her? im pretty sure lil meghan and rita both live in the city now but i havent gotten in touch with them at all...i should do that one of these weeks that im not so busy.

the show yesterday was great. kerry's brother kevin came with me which was fun. i like having someone there to hang out with and kevin is so much fun. then we met up with sashank and kerry for a drink.

tonight we are going to see wicked :)

rups are you feeling better??

morning my lovelies!

cara is going to visit me in september!
she has a wedding to go to in the middle of no where NY so she's going to fly into rochester and spend a night with me :)

where is everyone?

im so tired i need some entertainment!

wedding stuff part 2

it was so nice to be home sunday and yesterday. we got a lot of wedding planning sorted out. we are going bridesmaid dress shopping in a few weeks - but most of the dresses we were seeing online are so ugly!!! i think i may just wear a saree in the same color...i think when bridesmaids are all different heights/sizes, the dress will look cute on one girl but it never fits the rest as well...

i saw wedding crashers on sat - i think sat was one of my favorite days in the city. i helped devs brother pack in the morning (he moved out of NY too...) then had lunch with satyan, we went to B&N and read/hung out for a few hours, then went to the park and laid down and were that annoying couple that makes you sick :) but since it was me it was so much fun. then we ate dinner at whole foods - their food court area is awesome!! we had indian food there and it was better than most indian restaurants in the city!! then we saw wedding crashers :) it was such a great day. i love days like that in the city...

i think only 3 more doctors appointments to go...my mom set up an apt for a facial after the apt since it hurts so much and she wanted to pamper me and kerry. id never had a facial before - i loved it!

rups - want to come to satyans show tonight? its supposed to be awesome...he is fired up about this one for some reason...

more wedding stuff

the wedding is going to be either memorial day weekend next year or the weekend before or after - they haven't picked out a place yet to have it at . . .
i didn't want to be one because the whole dressing up wedding ceremony thing is just a little over rated to me . . . but i think part of the problem is i've never gone to a wedding where i really care about and/or support the marriage - I haven't gone to a friend's except vince (from chang's) and i think he jumped into that for all the wrong reasons . . .

yay!

that is so exciting! why didn't you want to be a bridesmaid? when's the wedding - have they set a date??

i have news!

i'm going to be a bridesmaid!!! Missy asked me this weekend. i thought i didn't want to be but then as i keep talking to them about the wedding, I was a little sad that I wasn't . . . but then she asked me! she is going to get me the style number of the dress sometime this week so i can go try it on and see if it looks good :)

good morning

i drank too much wine last night....i have a headache and just feel blah...but it was a fun night :)

def still tell me

it depends on when and where - but i think i'd still want to go :)

sad

he said the rochester portion of the trip is during the first week of october and he isnt planning on going to it...hes just going for the weekend...

but megan ill let you know and if you are interested you can still go to the show :)

:)

ill keep you posted about that weekend. i think they would all stay in a hotel, but ill suggest to him that he and i can stay at your place...or at least ill def stay at your place :)

i hope this isnt just a big tease!!!

oh, one more thing . . .

i love the parrot sequence :)

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!

i would be around :) AND i'd love to see his band play :) my apartment isn't that big but if people don't mind the floor they can all crash at my place :)

rochester!!!

megan, what are you doing the last weekend of sept? the 30-2?? satyans band is going on a road trip to montreal and yesterday he said they may be doing a show in rochester....if i take that friday off im invited to go as a groupie :) will you be around??? it isnt definite but i might get to see you two weeks in a row :)

application is due 10/3

Girls

im back :)

the trip was great. i saw bryan each day and saw sandi and a cousin of mine last night. this morning was the best meeting of the lot and i just got back in the office..

megan when are applications due? is this for vet school in fall of 06?? im still thinking about the gmat...i think on sat ill go buy a book and look into it more...

computer

my compooter keeps crashing. bah.

good morning all!

i wanna be in boston . . .

i'm a bit on the stressed side, thinking about applications and GREs and such. basically, i have minor panic attacks. edgar is dealing with me well. i really want this period to just be over.

wow

nush, your trip to boston sounds great. i miss tapeo! i think i might be going to boston the first weekend in october for jessie aleman's bday (it's a surprise - her girlfriend is taking her there, and jackie, jessie and i are going to surprise her).

my weekend was good, although i feel like it was all a blur and i was only in miami for like a day (it was actually thurs night - sun night). jackie had a great birthday weekend - we partied like crazy. i also got to spend a lot of time with my parents (mostly my mom), which was really nice. i didn't get as much sun as i would have liked, but oh well. i also got absolutely no sleep, so i'm still exhausted.

anyways, hope you all have a lovely day :)

im in boston :)

my weekend was great. friday night i hung out with satyan and ellen - dinner, magnolias for cupcakes, wine at home, then saturday i went home and hung out with my grandparents. i got to boston last night. im staying at the fairmont copley (i think the next house formal was here? and the aphi formal that i went to with nick was def here) its fun!

i took bryan out to dinner last night, worked out in the gym here this morning then had meetings all day. im about to go wander around the pru until i hear from bryan. im going to tapeo tonight with the two guys from work.

my weekend was good

i almost adopted a kitten - but i didn't.
i visited my grandma in the physical therapy unit of the nursing home they've placed her in - it was very sad.
the vet loaned me his copy of harry potter, i've got less than 200 pages left . . .
and i think tonight edgar and i are going for a bike ride :)

monday!

hi there :) how were weekends all around? mine was fantastic... i went home to philly, to ikea, then here to a free concert in central park, to dinner at my favorite tapas place... and dancing. :) and that was all saturday ;) yesterday i did yard work with my dad... and drank sangria. i love having a little getaway with trees and a yard and no city.. :) and free indian food.