gmat

here's all i know about the gmat :)

there's a guy at work who used to teach it... the princeton review grades harsher... so it's better to take their diagnostic tests... he actually says the manhattan gmat books are the best (which is the company where he worked b/c they teach you the material and they teach you tricks manhattangmat.com

they are starting to sell their boooks in barnes and noble, etc. too i think.

i had two books

one was a big thick princeton review and the other was basically just practice tests. i don't know about gmat, but gre sends you study software. but sign up early! i got my cd-rom in the mail yesterday . . .it takes them 3 weeks to a month to actually send it to you . . .

thats awesome megan!!!

i started studying for the gmat this week...its going very slowly...

im not so psyched about the book i got - kaplan - they teach you "tricks" but they dont actually review stuff like degrees of triangles and areas of things....which book did you use? satyan says the princeton review ones are better so i may take a look at those this weekend...

tonight is my first night alone in NY in a long time. satyan is in montreal and julie and jackie are in boston. i may have dinner with rupa but part of me just wants to go home and watch a movie and go to sleep....we shall see how i feel after work today.

and as an addendum to the last blog - im going to dc :) now i just have to figure out if i can stay overnight and go trick or treating. that depends on what time the meeting is...

i kick everyone's ass for stress this week

one thing off my list of things to do this week.
took GREs this morning . . .
now, i just need to finish my personal essay and submit my general vet essay tonight, tomorrow i'll finish my supplemental applications for georgia, illinois, and cornell (penn doesn't require an extra) and mail those saturday morning. then i will run home and study until a little after 1 at which point i think i'll head to dunkin donuts and buy a box-o-joe to take to my study group at 1:30 where the TA will go over the last two years tests in biochem. test is monday. monday night i'm going to relax :)

the only good news (which is hopefully a trend for the rest of the weekend) that although my verbal GRE score is not impressive (590 out of 800) my quantitative rocked! (740!) the only frustrating thing about the score is that i took the computer based exam, which means you choose your answer, confirm it twice (click next question and an answer confirm button which are right next to one another so by question 45, you just hit them together out of routine) you don't get to go back. i def know two questions i got wrong but figured out the right answer two seconds later - two seconds too late though. and with only 28 questions, those might have been the only two questions i got wrong to get a 740 . . .

maybe a vet school will let me in on the first try yet!!!

congrats, nush!

taking the boys trick or treating will be fun! you know what that means, though. . .you need to find a halloween costume!

i forgot to list one of the best things of my new office:

it's closer to the coffee machine/refrigerator (with bottles of water)/bathrrom. yay!

it's all rainy and dreary out. usually i hate this kind of weather unless i'm sitting at home in my pjs and under the covers. one of my co-workers, scott, loves this kind of weather. hearing him admire it so much is kind of making me like it, too. . .

moving on up...

I just had my first officialy confernece call by myself. of the 70 managers we are invested in, I unofficialyl cover 2 of them - which means that im supposed to be the main analyst on them and if i prove myself in these next few calls, then ill be the only analyst on the call.

it went really well :) this manager is close to DC and we need to do an onsite visit. I want to try to see if i can do that by myself and go on halloween (which is a monday) so I can take the boys trick or treating and fly back tues morn :) once i type up my notes ill ask steve if he will let me do that.

i thought it was friday this morning too! its been such a long week...

haha

it was so traumatizing yesterday when it finally dawned on me that yesterday was wednesday, not thursday! even now i want to believe that today is friday. . . .

and nush, i had to laugh when i read the title of your blog because just yesterday you were telling me how much you liked wearing a suit to work. i can't believe you did the whole skirt/sneakers thing. silly girl. :)

i saw the pictures, rups . . . i liked them :)

i'm sitting at my new office today. i got moved yesterday to an office with a much bigger window and with only one office-mate instead of two. it's also nice because it's at the beginning of the hall, so i'm farther away from nick (the department manager). woo-hoo! "i'm [slowly] moving on up. . ."

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no blogs this week, huh? I posted the pics in case you missed the last
one... I can't believe it's onlly Thursday. everyday this week has felt
like Thursday!!

i officially hate the suit thing - for one reason and one reason only...

i actually like wearing suits every day. i feel more professional and like i mean business and that helps when all the people i encounter are much older than me...

but last night i stayed at satyans. as i told julie i plan for staying there by bringing an extra shirt to wear with a suit that i keep there (the one i was wearing that day then stays there till i stay over again...) but this time i thought i was being smart and brought my black skirt to wear with the same jacket i wore yesterday...and i even planned from home on wed morn and brought black flip flops to wear with the skirt when i walk to work...yeah definitely left the flip flops at work. and we were so late this monring that he wouldnt let me change into the same pants i wore yesterday, so i had to do the motifying thing of wearing sneakers with my skirt :( i was so traumatized. he obviously was just laughing at me and basically thinking i was immature for thinking this was a big deal...anyway im safe at work with my flip flops on now :)

whats everyone up to????????

pictures

no blogs today i guess.. but i uploaded all megan's pics. megan, thank edgar!! these are great.. :) hope everyone is enjoying their tuesday.

http://www.rups.net/gallery/megan/

no blogs?

i wish it were friday :(

im sooo tired. i think we are only sending out this package tomorrow though. so im going to try to get out of here around 530 or so...

i hope that actually happens.

anusha rocks

thanks for the play-by-play of the weekend. rupa, i can't wait to see pictures!

is it friday yet?

geez thats long....

ive been typing that one for like an hour in pieces and didnt realize how long it got :)

oh - and pictures - rupa has them on a cd - she is supposed to put them on her computer and then give it to you to bring home for me...

nice guys...

i think nice guys go to bars and clubs just like we nice girls do :) but they arent the ones who are throwing themselves at you to dance with you, buy you a drink, take you home...they are the ones that act like we do, scope the place out and usually get sucked in by the not so nice girls just like we get sucked in by the not so nice guys...and once you get one vulture you are screwed cause then you fall into the not nice category :)

really i dont know where i came up with that explanation since the last time i was at a club was at verlaine and i was practically married there...but after rereading it, i think it sounds pretty good!!! :)

friday we got there kind of late, and just talked/ate gouda and spicy doritos, gave megan her bday presents, and went to bed at like 2.

sat edgar drove us to the wine place. it was great, we stopped at 6-7 places and did wine tastings at all of them, after which - at every one - we had to wander around looking for edgar cause he was either taking pictures in some hidden scenic place or he was wandering on the phone looking for cell phone reception...but we found him every time :) he was sweet - he drove us back to the first vineyard to buy wine for the weekend since that was our fav one.

then we went to dinosaur bbq - ate waaaay too much. i thought id have to be rolled out of there :) we came home, megan dollop and i went for a walk. i realized that i didnt even touch her :( which i think im kinda sad about. she was super cute. and megan and edgar are the cutest with her and made me feel very comfortable didnt make me feel bad that i was being a nuisance at jumping every time she came near me :)

sat night we just stayed in and watched fever pitch.

sunday we made the baked brie ive been talking about and eggs for breakfast, then went to the mall, ate at changs (got a 50% discount again!!), went to target, came home and made guac while watching like water for chocolate.

then megan and rupa went to a party for a friend of hers - i tried to sleep but dollop was yapping away so i just rested till they came back...

that was basically it - everything i was expecting (minus you of course!!)

i want to hear about the weekend?

nush, how was your "meet the puppy" weekend? are you and dollop best friends now? did you fall in love with her?

what did you guys do?? how was the wine tour? are there any pics from the weekend?

my weekend was ok. . .some good, some bad. by sunday morning i was thinking that most guys are really scummy and creepy and i was really missing joe and thinking he's a really nice guy and it's hard to find nice guys. . . then sunday evening joe and i got into the stupidest fight (over text messages, of course). the fight was great because it reminded me why he's my ex-boyfriend instead of my current boyfriend, even though he is a nice guy. . . does any of that make sense? i

went to a bar friday night and met some guy who seemed nice at first, then started getting really touchy (putting his arm around me and kissing my arm and calling me baby). and i was pretty drunk, so i didn't run away from him as quickly as i should have (but i did get away safely, don't worry). ewww. (shudder). then saturday we all went out and met up with some of jackie's friends from manhattan college (the guys on the basketball team). one of the hot guys, mike (i don't know if you guys have heard of him. he was brian's best friend and roommate when he was at manhattan college), started dancing with me and hitting on me and stuff. he reminded me of the time he was in my bed and tried to hook up with me and i turned him down. i was having fun dancing with him, until he started getting really touchy and grabbing my ass and all. oh yea, and he has a girlfriend. i got away from him as soon as he started groping me. but yea, most guys are scummy. or maybe what i learned this weekend is that you really shouldn't expect to meet nice guys at bars/clubs.

ditto.

all of the above. :)

so fun....but im sooo tired

for our monday morning meetings i print out a package of stuff for people to look at/discuss. yeah def screwd up the package a lot and had to make like 3 different ones :) its ok, i excused myself by telling them i got up at 430 this morning...

plus im gonna get my period this week. this is not going to be a fun week at all.

so busy

and i'm hungry and tired and don't want to work. . .but i wanted to say hi! nush, i'm glad you had fun yesterday.

megan, i watched this week's episode of gilmore girls yesterday. i didn't know the season premier was last week! and our tivo managed to mess up recording it, so unfortunately i don't get to see it. sad. even though i hate the end of summer, it's nice to have our shows back!

anyways, hope you all have a great friday. rupa and anusha, have a great trip to rochester. megan, happy birthday!

happy bday jessie and chike :)

im in the best mood (not really cause its jessies or chikes bday since im selfish just thought i should throw that in there!)

the malcolm gladwell talk was awesome. im so glad i went. i realized yesterday that there are so many educational/cultural opportunities in NY and I dotn take advantage of any of them. I spend way too much time working, watching movies, eating, working out...and not enough of exploring what is out here - so yesterday was my first step to changing that. hearing him talk was awesome, (he signed a book for sashank!) then i went to satyans concert which was awesome. his friends were all there and love me so it was really fun :) i hung out with them until the show and then when they are playing i am just totally mezmorized by how fast his hands fly on the tabla...

afterwards i left pretty early to go home and pack and was saying bye to him thinking i would just meet him for dinner tonight but he said he wanted to come over :) he brought his tablas all the way over just to spend the night. i definitely did not want to get out of bed this morning.

but now that im out of bed, i cant wait to get to rochester tonight!! megan i love our tradition of coming for your bday :) i hope i never have to break that tradition (well i wouldnt mind if it werent rochester...but where ever it is :))

anyway back to work... have a good day!

jules you should email that last sent to your mom :)

i send my mom clips of emails/conversations where i give her compliments like that - and her response is always that makes it all worth it...

wow, you guys all brought up really good points

I think we all agree on one thing: it's definitely a personal choice. I'm not saying that you have to go out and be a career woman just because you have an ivy-league education. if you choose to be a stay-at-home mom, that's your decision and I'm behind you 100%. like megan said, it's definitely better to have an educated person raising children.

I guess what really bothered me about the article is that (1) women are still expected (by society and/or by themselves) to be the main caregiver, and (2) that these women don’t think it's possible to be both great at your job and a great mother. yeah, maybe my feelings will change once I'm actually at that point in my life and once I see how difficult it is to juggle a career and a family, but I like to think that I can be superwoman and do both.

I think rupa also had a really good point -- just because you're home with your kids all day doesn't make you a better parent. my dad worked really, really hard when we were little, but he still made it to more basketball games than my mom did (my mom wasn't a huge basketball fan).

my mom worked her ass off when we were young -- running around between work, school, and extra-curricular activities. to this day, she still remembers how exhausting it was to do everything. but she still got to do it all, and she did a great job at everything. if my mom would have been a stay-at-home mom, my parents wouldn't be where they are right now, semi-retired and comfortable and enjoying life. and she obviously did a good job raising us -- just look at how I turned out :)

I just hope I can be nearly as successful (both in work and with my family) as my mom was :)

Girls

i agree that its wrong to enforce your standards - in both directions. so being forced to work just because you are a girl and educated and thats the trend "women" want is wrong also...but people tend to express their opinion on any topic and i think thats fine. if jackies mom made her have an arranged marriage today without her knowing i think thats wrong but her suggesting that she thinks that is how it should be, i dont think thats necessarily wrong...it might not be what she wants to hear but everyone is entitled to an opinon.

i think you could do both really well :) but i think that soccer game or board meeting you give up in the trade off between career and home is a decision you are making to put one or the other first in that scenario. the points about parents coming home and not talking to their kids or parents smothering them - some people are just bad parenting and shouldnt have kids (jules - like metz's parents:)

i agree that it isnt correlated to the time you put in - not just in this but in everything - some people could have studied half as much as i did for level 2 and passed, i put in all i could and still didnt...

i think you just have to take a stand for what you believe in for yourself and that applies to everything not just this also...

yay

i love when we have topics like this to discuss :)

nush i agree that each lifestyle works differently for different peopple.. and that some actively choose to stay home which is ok. i think it's just wrong when people are enforcing their own standards on to someone else.. like when is a good time to get married.. who should stay home and raise the kids etc. the fact that it's assumed it's the mother who should in itself is also an assumption that's no longer valid. why is the struggle of balancing work and kids up to the mom? what about the dad? i honestly believe that it should be something the family figures out together.. if the wife makes more and so it's better for the family if the dad stays home, so be it.. there's nothing wrong w that!!

i do disagree though that when you balance you aren't the "best" at one or the other.. b/c i don't really think that one is a tradeoff of the other.. yes if you are working more you are spending less time with your kid.. but what if the parent who stays home with the kid is really smothering them with attention and makes the kid more spoilt? or the kid less independent? i think how good parents are doesn't really corrrelate exactly to how much time is spent. i mean extreme versions are bad of course.. the parent who never goes to the kids soccer games etc is bad.. but i know parents that would be there when the kids were home etc but weren't such good parents.. they'd "be" home but wouldn't talk to their kids.. or know what was going on in their lives.. but other parents wouldn't always be there.. but they'd come home and talk to their kids.. know their friends names etc...

i just think you can do it all ;)

balancing career/family

to this day, my mom is all guilty that she spent too much time at work and not enough time being a mother for steve and i. eun has constant feelings of guilt that she spends too much time at work and not enough time with her kids (that one is a problem though because not only does she do 9 to 5, she takes work home) one of my first convo's with dr. ottosen (the vet) was about his feelings that being a vet almost ruined his marriage because he spent so much time at work. now, his wife has become a vet but i think its only possible for both of them to be working because their kids are late high school/college age. you can't live your life the way you live it now and have kids. the cost of child care can be huge and since extended families don't stay around each other as much - sometimes its more economical for the mom to be a stay at home mom until the kids are off to school (elementary, i don't mean wait until college) i really admire what dr. ottosen's wife did, that she didn't really have a career (i'm not sure exactly what she did before) until she was 40 and then she went back to school. she got the chance to raise her kids AND become fully invested in a career.

i agree with anusha - i think its a personal choice. i don't think its a waste of an ivy league education because i don't think education is ever a waste. plus, i'd rather have an educated parent raising their child than an uncaring day care worker instill ignorance in children. i can see where it would make you angry, but i think that telling a woman since she's smart, she can't stay at home with her kids is pretty similar to since she's a woman and therefore very maternal, she needs to stay at home with her kids. feminism should be about equality - which means the ability to make a personal choice, whether it be staying at home or going to work . . .

i wrote a long response, where is it?

Girls

personal choice

I dont think its a trend that is going to change throughout the entire population; i think it needs to be a personal choice. i do agree with this statement though:

"My mother's always told me you can't be the best career woman and the best mother at the same time,"

I dont think it has to be so absolute and I think many women are able to balance it but I think that even if they are able to balance it, they arent the "best" at either one. like my aunt for instance - if she wasnt trying to be a good mother, she could be so much farther/better at her job, and vice versa - if she didnt spend so much time at her job, she would be able to be home when the kids were home, take them to more activities, etc.

I think everyone has to decide what is important to them - and i dont think that has anything to do with going to an ivy league school.

not that i can influence/change your opinion - but jules, i think id be fair for this to bother you if it was yourself, or if it was someone like jackie who adamantly tells you now that i dont want ot be a stay at home mom and i want to work, and if you see her change when she has kids it could bother you - but if someone were happier staying at home, why work in a job you are unhappy with? if you had the option of working in recruiting or staying at home and taking up a hobby that you actually liked (even if 10 years from now that meant raising your children), i dont think there would be anything wrong with that...

rita

jess was supposed to fly to texas this weekend to visit clark. she called me this morning and was like do you think i should go? i don't think she's going to now because she's afraid the hurrican will hit texas and she'll be delayed and she has a test on tuesday. clark was like nonono it def isn't going to hit here!

marriage

it seems like there's been a lof talk of marriage around me lateley. earlier this week jackie's mom told her that she should start thinking about marriage and settling down (needless to say, jackie was pissed by her mom's comment. just because her little sis is getting married at the age of 23 and after dating the guy for 2 months doesn't mean that jackie needs to get married too!). then, i read this article in the NY Times the other day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/national/20women.html?incamp=article_popular_2&pagewanted=all

it talks about how girls who are going to ivy-league schools are going back to accepting traditional gender roles by planning to be stay-at-home moms once they have kids. that bothered me for some reason. . .

nush, you forgot one thing

when you were listing the things you were excited about, you forgot to mention dollop!

dude, have you guys seen what a huge hurrican rita has turned into?? so sad for all those people in texas and louisiana. . .

Girls

9/23 36 8:15pm - Rochester, NY 9:35pm
9/26 45 6:10am - New York, JFK 07:20am

flight #s

you should give me exact time/#s of your flight tomorrow

its ok :)

im fine with any of those movies. im more excited to just see your new place and eat guac cheap beer and good wine :)

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megan are you getting excited???

i have bad news

rupa and anusha . . . i've been too busy to actually watch the movies i've got, so i still have 2 left from about 2 weeks ago . . . bicycle theif got sent, but its a no go on like water for chocolate and fever pitch. BUT there is a blockbuster's down the street and i have a free non-new release movie coupon :)

empire falls

im totally loving this book. i had lost interest in it but the end is getting so good! jules i left for 30 min during lunch and read in the park, it was so nice :)

we all blogged today!

i don't have a lot to say . . .
i watched gilmore girls and house yesterday with jess - it was very nice :) she's flying to texas this weekend to see clark - who i refered to as her boyfriend last night and she didn't even flinch!

i'm excited about rupa's blind date :) although i'm guessing the story is less "oh i'm in love" and more "wow. never doing that again"

nush and rupa - you can share the futon if you want, but i still have the circular couch so technically - while ghetto - you guys can both get your own bed :)

is it really only wednesday?

nush, I'm glad you're embracing commitment and taking satyan to your brother's wedding and all. . .but I thought we decided you couldn't marry him? anusha shah??? ;-) just kidding, I'm really excited for you guys.

I'm exhausted. I was dead tired last night so I tried going to bed at like 11, but I just kept tossing and turning all night! ugh. so annoying. watching the food network with nush and jackie and talking about cooking was fun, though. jackie says she's going to start cooking for us since she gets home so early. I hope it lasts :)

rupa, what blind date??? I want to hear all about it!

:)

i think you will be a fine substitue for megan :)

blind date!!!

what???? i cant wait to hear about it....

the futon may have to be with me and the pizza unless edgar wants to sleep with me in the bedroom :)

last night was so fun :) i went to satyans, worked out, ate dinner, and when i got home watched the foot network with the girls. i know it sounds pretty boring but we must have been so tired and delirious that we were having a blast!

work update : the sales guy chris that was stingy at that work event with me and dev quit yesterday....now larry and i are the vertrns around here - weird huh? with elizabeth around im def not leaving here anytime soon though...

yay

so excited :) i can't wait.

i would love to claim the futon with me, megan, and a slice of pizza!!

i have had a really busy day.. but i went on a blind date yesterday which i have a great story about.. jules i'll have to tell you over coffee soon.. megan/nush, you can hear about it this weekend.

yay for your birthday getting closer!!

rups

jess and fam

someone will be sleeping on my bday present from my parents - they got me a futon.

as for jess, i haven't gotten her anything yet . .

i'm planning to go home after 1. gre's, 2. vet application is due 3. my first test in biochemistry is over - october 7-9 :)

oburg

are you going to go home anytime around now for your bday? what did/is your mom getting you?

what did you get jessie? does she have plans for the weekend?

so many questions...

been there, done that . .

i don't mind watching it, but i don't think i'll get hooked :)

tv

that sounds like fun. its prob good for you guys to have planned times to see eachother

by the way - DH premieres on sunday - so we have to watch that even if you dont like it that much :) maybe we can get you hooked on it too...

i love that we're talkative today :)

tonight is gilmore girls and house . . . i'm going over to jess's to watch (since i don't get the wb) its the first of our weekly ritual so that we have scheduled seeing each other time :)

lawyer

much more suitable for him...she went to princeton too. they have been dating for 3 years and she just graduated...

it was fun - we kind of ran out of stuff to talk about after a while but thats ok :) it was fun nonethe less...

that's super fun!

is the girl he's engaged to from princeton?
was he premed? i don't know what i'm basing that on . . . but it seems like he should be . . .

haha

he would prob do that, but he has a recording session all day sunday for their cd...

guess who im having lunch with today? well i guess ill have to tell you because none of you would actually guess this - john tanski - remember him??? (rupa you may not know him - he was my best friend in high school, but i havent talked to him in forever) well my dad found out from one of his patients that he got engaged so i wrote him a congrats email and now we are getting together for lunch :)

jetblue last minute

he could probably still get a ticket :)

balderdash

ill bring this again. its really fun! and i def vote for guac again...and again and again...(ie fri, sat, and sun :))

i told my mom this morning that i was def bringing him. shes super excited...its a bit scary...but fun at the same time :) one of the main reasons i didnt want to bring him was because i dont want my whole fam getting excited about him and forgetting that the reason we are there are sashank and kerry...but i think that itll be more fun this way and when he said that he wanted to be a part of all of this it made me feel too good to let up...

and he went a few LARGE steps past dev a long time ago - measured by the fact that anyone i know actually likes him and thinks he is good for me...and that my family is excited about the fact he is my boyfriend and not terrified by that fact :) his friends are so cute - every time they plan to get together they always add things like you are only invited if you bring anusha and stuff like that; it makes me feel good :) he even last night was wishing he listened to me abotu coming to rochester just so he could hang out with us more!

games

i remember the other game . . . cranium

anusha embraces commitment

so satyan is going a step farther than dev, right? dev met immediate extended family, but not the whole clan? does your mom know?

ok, i thought we could attempt a game night this saturday - but i don't know what games to play! i have the sex and the city game and trivia pursuit 90s edition, edgar has taboo . . . i was looking at walmart the other day for more games - scene it (which i don't want to buy the whole thing because my parents already own it, but you can get replacement dvds and we can be ghetto with the board and the dice) or outburst (which is sort of the verse of taboo) or . . . damnit, there was a third . . .

also - i think rupa should make guacamole again this year. we were supposed to go out for burritos last week and i got all excited to have guac . . . and then we didn't go. so we went yesterday . . . and it was the most disappointing burrito/guac experience. the carnitas meat was dry and the burrito was huge . . . but they only dished out like a teaspoon of guac.

2 blogs from julie in a row :)

jules are they not working you hard enough anymore?? :)

you didnt wake us up although at the first scream he def had a what the hell is going on out there look and i told him you guys were watching that :) he and i started il postino yesterday but got too tired and only watched half of it...

i also officially am taking him to sashanks wedding...he asked me about it yesterday and we had a long conversation about what that will mean to my entire extended family and if we are ready for that sort of encounter...we decided itll be fun and he was like this is an important day for you and your family and i want to be there too...i thought itd scare me that it was so deep but really i just thought it was cute...

he has another show here thursday - megan they arent going to rochester anymore :( it got cancelled for another show in NY at south street seaport for 3000 people! I think thatll be a lot of fun. rupa - its oct 2 if you are in town and want to come

saw

jackie and i watched a scary movie last night, "saw". nush, sorry if we woke you and satyan up with our yelling at the tv. the movie was grotesque and a bit twisted, but i thought it was really good. kind of like "seven". it kept me thinking and guessing the whole time. megan, i signed into netflix to recommend it to you and my dad (my two friends on netflix), and i noticed you already had it on your queue. it's definitely not for squemish people (so i'm sure you'll have no problems watching it, meg), but i highly recommend it!

ok, time to call my parents and see how tropical storm rita is treating them. . .

socks

just saw this article, megan, and i thought of you. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/09/miss.match/index.html

looks like you're in the "tween" (age 8-12) girl market ;)

fear of dogs

so, this weekend will be trial and error with you and the dog :) edgar's grandma isn't super keen on her because when dollop's nails were long, she scratched and cut his grandma's arm. now, i guess dollop just steers clear of her. we'll have to see whether dollop just naturally steers clear of you or whether we need to "encourage" her not to bug you :)

I cant wait for this weekend :)

I did a whole lot of relaxing this weekend and Im totally looking forward to more relaxing this weekend...i just want to go to a grocery store, get a whole bunch of food and wine/hoegarden and just sit around and talk and hang out...maybe by the end of it I may even like dollop! :) i was pretty good around bruge and star...

i told my mom you got a dog and she was shocked that i was going to visit you - i said dont worry, one thing i am certain about is megan wont take my fear of dogs lightly and i am totally not concerned :)

calluzzo sucks

don't hang out with him, he sucks big fat donkey dick.

but if you should talk to sunil or any kappa sig (or maybe someone knows this already) how is milner and family doing? my mom asked me a while ago and i felt all guilty because his family never crossed my mind and here my mom is, never having met him, was like how did the family that you stayed with in new orleans do during the hurricane?

ok, time to chill out with courtney before class :)

hello ladies

wow, i haven't blogged in forever! i hope you all had a great weekend. my weekend was really nice. i went to the bronx zoo yesterday with julia, anusha, and satyan. i haven't been to the zoo in like 15 years! julia had a great time. getting her home was a pain in the butt, though, because the trains were all retarded. it took me like 3 hours to get home after we left the zoo, so i was exhausted. friday night jackie and i tried to see the new movie, "just like heaven" or something like that, but it was sold out. so we went to barnes and noble instead and hung out there for a few hours. it was nice :) saturday was disgustingly hot and muggy out, so jackie and i shopped for a while and then went home and vegged.

oh yea, this is hilarious. i told nush already. i got like 3 phone calls at 4am sat morning from a phone number i don't recognize. i didn't pick up because i was obviously sleeping, and the drunk-dialer didn't even have the courtesy to leave a voice mail. saturday night, i asked jackie to try calling that number from her cell phone to see if we could figure out who it was. it was sunil's phone. so i chatted with sunil for a bit, told him about the 4am phone calls, and sunil says, "oh, i bet i know who that was. that was probably my friend, johnny calluzzo. . ."

how funny is that?? they were sitting in calluzzo's apt having a few beers when i talked to sunil, and we talked about maybe meeting up that night. they never called me back, though. i guess calluzzo was embarrassed or something . . .haha. oh well.

anyway, i hope you ladies all have a fabulous day!

somebody say something!

i agree with satyan

but i know where you are coming from :)
lab meeting finished . . . now i have about 5 minutes until i need to leave for class . . .

march of the penguins :)

i loved it! i didnt like the sad parts of it and satyans response was life isnt always happy they have to show you the reality that sometimes the baby penguins die,,,i just stuck my tongue out at him for being so practical :)

it was a lot of fun though. im glad i saw it in the big screen.

rups - i may not make it for dinner tonight - torals cousin is in town and i may try to have dinner with him but we havent been able to connect lately so it may not work...ill let you know later today...if we do go out to eat, ideas of where to go?? im craving wings (i havent become strictly vegetarian yet :))

yay

so exciting :)

fever pitch

its next on my list :)

ok, so like water for chocolate, bicycle thief, and fever pitch it is :)

fever pitch works for me

its next on my queue so ill just take it off and we can see it next week if thats ok with megan :)

so we have our list! i cant wait!!!!!!!!

taal

i have taal so i can bring it.. actually i have a bunch in philly so i can just bring them and we can pick from them. if you could get swadesh, that's a really good hindi movie that i don't mind seeing again... another good one is astitva. it's a bit more serious but good... there are also some classics that are really excellent that my parents should have... i'll check at home and let you guys know.

kuch kuch hota hai is good too... a lot of the old aamir khan ones are good.

now a random american movie i really want to see- i know it's a chick flick (kinda)... is FEVER PITCH!! that jimmy fallon movie about the red sox... what do you think?

hindi movie taal?

rupa youve prob seen it since its really old...but ive always wanted to see it...


Mohabbatein is another one...

rups you pick

megan - have you seen black? its my fav hindi movie of all time. but its sad and ive already seen it so i dont want to see it again...

march of the penguins

i already saw it at the imax!
i was disappointed, but only because they hyped it up waaay more than they should have. at heart, its a nature documentary. i still recommend everyone see it :)

more movie blogs

i've seen . . .
house of flying daggers (AMAZING cinematogrophy, i'm just not into that genre of film)
vanity fair (really wanted to like it, but wasn't so impressed)
secret window (keep bumping it down, its not that good)
anchorman (will ferrell funny)
waking life (very cool, but if you are going for surreal, not as good as what the *bleep* do we know!?)

bicycle thief looks good :) also - like water for chocolate is on my list already :) so i think we should pick a third foreign film (brown or otherwise, i don't care) so there is a theme :)

one more thing to add to the agenda...

Desparate Housewives season primier is the sunday that we are in Rochester! Jules, does that tempt you to come be with us??

new list

lets try again :)

Ive never heard of bicycle thief and would be willing to see it..megan did you see penguins in imax?? do you think itll still be out next weekend? if you do then i wont go see it tonight and we can go next weekend (if rupa doesnt mind...)

here are some new ideas - im basically listing things on my queue that keep getting pushed down...

rogue trader
ali
house of flying daggers
vanity fair
secret window
road to perdition
anchorman
like water for chocolate
waking life

movies

i've already seen the rest :) crash, baghban, and il postino...

baghban is worth seeing.. i think there are better brown movies out there and we may want to make it a brown festival :) but we can decide that later.... crash i hated so i don't want to do that agian...

but...

IL POSTINO.. so good!! could we do a bunch of movies in that genre? like the bicycle thief?

and the list shortens . . .

i've already seen adaptation, being julia, and kinsey.

adaptation was really good - until the end.

i LOVED being julia!

kinsey was ok, but felt a little long.

so, crash, Il Postino, and Baghban?
rupa? thoughts?

you all just want to be more like me :)

it gets addictive...

megan here is a random list of things Ive been wanting to see but havent gotten around to it:
adaptation
crash
being julia
Il Postino
Kinsey
Baghban (a hindi movie...if you are in for the brown movie with your fav brown girls...rupa, have you seen this?)

whooda thunk

that i would be planning for november. at least my december is wide open.. so any wknd that works for you guys works for me :)

megan, what's the plan with the wineries.. which of us is driving :) and who all is going?

FREAKS!

although, as you say what weekend in december i should come, i'm thinking to myself . . geez, i wonder when my final is . . .
and my aunt asked me to stay with my cousins (the family in rochester that i stayed with before) for a long weekend in january - she gave me two options and i'm thinking i have no idea what that will eventually impede with . . . will i be busy looking at vet schools at that point? what will i be doing?!!

i don't like planning so far in advance.

oh and anusha and rupa - put in your orders now for netflix! its taking me an awful long time to watch movies these days so i need to put them top on my list if they have a chance of getting here by then :)

good morning girlies

what's the latest on this tuesday morning :) i have a crazy day so probably won't get to blog much but wanted to say hi

hi!!!!

24??

im in cali the whole week before...are you coming to NY on the 24th after the wedding? or going straight to the airport/india??

otherwise pick any day the week of the 10-14 and im in for dinner!

its a good thing! see even a month before we are too busy to plan stuff!

you might as well tell me the day you are getting back now too :)

oct 25th

is when i leave... so we should have dinner the week before.. maybe the thursday or the wednesday before? (the weekend before i'll be in philly for a wedding).

i am starting to sound like you :) you are either rubbing off on me or corrupting me.. i still haven't figured out which one it is!

ok jules, you too.. i'll send you an outlook invite so that i'm on the calendar. i just talked to my parents who are over there.. and they are having a blast!!

youre sounding like me :)

tell me the date and im def there :)

also megan, not to get totally ahead of myself but if you were planning to come to NY in Dec, the only weekend that Im fee is the 17-18...the bachelorette party is the 3rd, i have a wedding reception to go to on the 10th, and then its xmas/wedding stuff...

when do you leave for india/ im in cali for a week in oct and would like to have dinner with you sometime before you leave...

hi :)

wow.. i'm so glad that it went well with him meeting the parents :) you two were totally the cute couple at his bday.. it was nice to see. my weekend was pretty uneventful.. i basically slept ALL weekend.. (except for friday). it was amazing.. absolutely amazing... i basically had stayed awake so much the week before that i felt like crap saturday morning..

this week should be really fun.. i've back from the dead (again!!) after a hellish few weeks so this week i'm catching up with people.. tonight i am hanging out with my roommate.. tomorrow i'm having dinner with moushumi and wednesday this hedge fund thing w the girls. thursday night i'm going to alta (my fave tapas place that megan we have to go to when you are here next).

and i'm definitely going to india!! i think this is old news for the nyc girls but i finally got my tickets.. i'm going for three weeks, from end of oct to mid november.. i won't see ameya for much of it though b/c he'll be travelling with his family, but i'll get lots of time with my grandparents and to travel with my sister and cousins.. i'm so excited!! this is my first real vacation since i started working :) i've decided that i'm having you girls (nyc and/or megan if she can :) ) over the night that i get back.. b/c i'll be so excited to see you but too exhuasted to go anywhere.. so you'll come over.. we'll have dinner and whatever random indian fun foods i bring back with me.. i also predict that i'm gonna be craving sushi by the time i get back so we are having sushi. yes that is 2 months away but i'm penciling myself into your calendars now!!

meet the parents...

satyan met the whole fam yesteday. we went to lunch with just my parents, it went well. we went to a south indian rest, the conversation was fun and comfortable. then he went to his place, my parents and i went home. sashank and kerry came over and we discussed wedding stuff for a few hours, then satyan came over again to watch tennis with us, so he met my grandparents too. it was the accelerated track of introduction to the fam!

its really good but also scary that its so good at the same time...

im excited for this week :) tonight im going to try to go to yoga with j+J, tomorrow is the fashion show, wed is some hedge fund thing (ie get to hang out with julie and rupa), and im off friday for my next doctors apt...should be a fun week...

megan all those wineries sound good to me...

wineries

http://www.senecalakewine.com/

http://www.keukawinetrail.com/

http://www.cayugawinetrail.com/

those are the three wine trails. my exit off of 90 is exit 45 - the winery i went to was on the cayuga wine trail, montezuma winery and it about a 40 minute drive. i think i'm leaning towards seneca or keuka because they are closer . . .

finally!

megan thanks for the entertainment :)

if its on your way home from the vet does that mean it is close by? ill volunteer to drive us there and you and rupa can drink more if edgar doesnt want to...

what website?

i went to a winery yesterday, i drive past it on the way home from the vet's every week and i decided yesterday was def the day to walk in . . .

it made me so excited for my bday! it was the most random, not beautiful set up ever and i still wasn't the only person in there! i tasted two different wines and bought a bottle of the second - honey wine, which isn't made of grapes its fermented honey (mead) and they have there own beehives so the honey is made onsit! plus - although this won't excited nush - there was a boxer sitting in the front of the door as you walked in! i love places with dogs in them . . .

where is everyone?

i like the blog as a distraction!!

gucci fashion show :)

one of my coworkers brian is totally tapped into the fashionable network in ny - he just got back from a 4 day trip to nice just for the hell of it, and liz (my intern) and i were just chatted with him about his trip and he was like i have a lot of invitations to fashion week if you girls want to come with me. then he comes back 5 min later saying he has 4 tickets to gucci on tues night with an after party after that!!!!! im so excited. i have NO idea what to wear to something like this...

overall im in the best mood. i took yesterday off to go to the open again. we sat in box seats, 10 rows up and had a suite to go to for air conditioning and food. it was great. nalini auntie met satyan and was raving about how great he is to my mom :) it felt nice to hear all that...

megan - want to come to ny tomorrow?? im thorwing a bday party for satyan and verlaine (the place i died at after my bday....) his friends think im the coolest gf for getting him the whole seinfeld dvd set and open tickets and throwing this party for him :) im excited...

my fam (everyone - parents, grandparents, sashank, and kerry) are coming for dinner on sunday...my mom asked if id invite him to that and i really want to but im kind of weirded out to have dinner with the 8 of us...that seems like a big move for me...anyway ill ask him about it tonight...

rupa - hows the website?!?!? i cant wait to see you tomorrow night :)

the lights are on but nobody's home . . .

9 to 10:30, lab meeting (which always runs until 11)
11 to 12, biochem lecture
12 to 1, lunch
starting next week . . .
2-?, weekly meeting with eun
4-6, biochem "workshop" . . . recitation

all of this equals one crappy wednesday.

cara

she's coming to see me this weekend!
well, she's going to a wedding and the rochester airport was one of the few options she had to get to it (the wedding is in the middle of no where) so, she's staying until monday and going to spend the night with me sunday night :)

cute picture!!!

Megan that pic is so cute :) I cant wait to meet Dollop...I hope you figure out how to make her stop biting though!!

I had the best weekend. Sat I went to a wedding with Satyan which was really fun. I like his friends a lot - they are all really interesting and funny and love me :) then sun i went home and got back last night. we went to the open last night, saw ginepri (who is one of my new fav cause he is so cute and really good!)

we are going again tomorrow. im taking the day off again. i thought i had like no vacation days but i always forget about our floating holidays. so i just asked allen. i was so nervous but i got the you put in so much work go have fun (of course after he was like well if you dont have any pressing work to do...) it feels good to be here long enough to be able to get away with things like this...

im in such a good mood :)

rupa - hows the website???

so adorable

she's SO SO cute!!! i can't wait to play with her :) yay.

happy monday!

i didn't email kristie (refer to last posted blog) but i figure if i put something together today, i can chance it and email her anyway . . . so get me names or just tell me what to say :)

also . . . i have pictures . . .

i haven't emailed kristi!

what do we want to write about our weekend in connecticut?
what are rooz and companies last names and graduation years?

its friday, i want to go home . . .

the puppy is fine, although i'm a little worried she's not so smart . . . not that i think she should be house broken, but her schedule is just so random! she's not going when the mood hits her because she holds it when she's in her crate but we'll walk outside for half an hour and 20 minutes after she's inside, she'll pee! its frustrating. she has her first vet's appointment tomorrow - she needs her ears cleaned, her nails clipped, i think she'll need two booster shots, flea control, probably have her blood drawn for a heartworm test and some of the heartworm prevention medication . . . while there, i'm going to ask the vet about when i should be expecting her to respond to housetraining and also how he/she feels about puppies and biting because she (the dog) has made quite a habit of biting during play and i'm worried she'll start thinking its ok all the time to bite . . . .

the alpaca autopsy was def interesting. do you know the scene in star wars? empire strikes back i think where they are stuck outside on the frozen tundra planet and the cut open the pack animal to use his insides to stay warm? it looked kinda like that . . . the animal actually died because of a blockage in his urethra, which in turn caused a tear and allowed urine to flow into his body (very bad) so, the autopsy was to see what caused the blockage and if it was a stone, to figure out the nutritional issues causing it so that the whole herd doesn't get them. he couldn't find a stone, so he thought the "blockage" might have been caused from the alpace getting kicked by another alpaca and the urethra being damaged, the inflammatory response by the body swelling and constricting the area and in that way impeding urine flow . . . then he gave me a mini anatomy lesson of the alpaca (3 compartments to the stomach, awesome intestinal tract - very cow meets pig) the smell wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it would be, so i enjoyed it :)

i also saw two spays, 1 neuter, and an amputation of a toe probably damaged by bone cancer (the amputated tissue was sent off to a lab for testing)

my labor day plans? relax :) and study . . . i started biochemistry today. saturday, dollop has an 11:45 vet appointment, saturday evening i am going to buffalo to get my dress that my aunt picked up for me, introduce dollop to the animals in buffalo, and go out to dinner with my grandparents. saturday evening, gen is having a little "yeah, my smelly roommate finally moved out!" party. at some point, edgar and i have plans to 1. go to a park to play with dollop and 2. go shopping, possibly outlet, since he needs new shoes and its tax free week.

forget work and PA

rupa, you should do something crazy in your life. . .go to jetblue.com and buy a ticket to PR! come on, you know you want to. . .

meg, how's the puppy? do you have any labor day plans? i already know what the nyc girls are doing.

i can't wait to leave for puerto rico tomorrow! luis emailed me a whole itinerary with everything we should do while we're there. megan, remember that pub, shannon's, that the puerto ricans used to talk about all the time? we're going there sunday :)

ugh. am i really supposed to get work done today? i'm too hyper!

wow

that's crazy... how was it? is it like a human autopsy? not that i know that much about the human ones but i've seen them on crossing jordan :)

i have nothing really to blog about... i've been working lots this week. hung out with my friend anuj last night which was really fun... and i took my roommate shopping...

this weekend i have to work a bit (hopefully just tonight and saturday) and then i'm going to philly for a big suburban labor day... which means block parties, go cart racing, and lots of pennsylvania beer. i can't wait.

blogless

i guess it makes sense that there were no blogs yesterday, it was just rupa and julie . . .
i was in auburn watching an alpaca autopsy

geez

no blogs???

i had a lot of fun at the open yesterday :) saw agassi play, federer practice...it was great