hmmm . . .

ok, rupa is in india.
nush is in dc

jules, are you there?

good luck megan!

i hope it goes well! this week has been so busy. i leave tomorrow morn for dc and come back on tues. and tues is diwali - im pretty excited :) we are going to light firecrackers in DC, and satyan is taking me to amma (my fav rest in the city) for dinner on tues night.

i feel like i'm in college again

only worse, because i have to go to work also.
my head hurts, possibly from biochem overload, possibly because i woke up every hour last night. the last lecture slides i looked at brought the hormone that helps you not pee while you sleep. i don't know if i had to pee because i had to pee or whether the hormone being in my head made me need to pee but i kept dreaming about the 4 classifications of pee (there are none) and how they relate to the hormone. finally, at 5:30 i just got up and peed. then i slep blissfully . . . until 6:30 when my alarm went off so i could have time to walk and feed dollop before i ran off to work.

the test is in half an hour though so for better or for worse, its basically go time. i'm going to look over peptide bonding and DNA bonding one more time, then the chemotrypsin mechanism. then, i'm off!

i want to sleep.

hurricane wilma pics

hi guys, my dad's office finally got power, so he got to upload some of the pics he took of my neighborhood. nothing drastic like what you see on the newspapers, trailer homes rushed in half and all, but the hurricane still brought down some pretty huge trees. there's a lot of pics, but here's the link in case you guys get a chance to browse:

www.williejaramillo.com/wilma

good morning

rupas gone :( hopefully shell blog about her trip!!

megan thoughts about jan??

i had a fun night - went out for drinks with my team and a group from Morgan Stanley. we went to 8 1/2 (megan its in some season of SATC but i dont remember which one...) then i went to satyans. we had some interesting conversations. ill try to blog about them later...

back to work.

:(

7-9 ill be in DC for arjuns 16th bday, and the 13-16 is a long weekend so i wanted to go away somewhere...

vet school and january

i don't find out until forever from now . . . i'll be contacted for interviews that won't take place until next year . . .

as for january, i'm not sure. i'm going to be staying with my cousins 25-30, i don't know if i want to get back from nyc on day and move into their house the next - a house where dollop can't stay with me . . . is there a problem with the 7-9 or 14-16?

its the rain that makes life seem blah...

im sick of this weather! my room was cold last night! i hate the time of year that i have to take my ac out....

megan, when do you find out about vet school? what do you think about the january option i wrote about?

i'm here!

my life is just really boring right now . . . .

hello

i'm here - i've been busy all day checking the hurricane news updates and recruiting, so i haven't really had a chance to do much else.

i had a great weekend. got tons of sleep. went to a wedding friday night with my girlfriend jackie, which was fun. spent all day saturday indoors hiding from the rain and catching up on sleep. and spent sunday with julia - i took her to a rock climbing/gymnastics session for kids, then we went back to my apt and had pre-halloween fun with jackie. we carved pumpkins (one for julia, one for us) and baked cookies and cupcakes. soo much fun :) i need to send you guys pics. . .

Girls

i blogged but its not showing up...

good morning

wheres everyone been?

things here have been good and busy...i went home this weekend which was relaxing. we did a lot of wedding planning, i cleaned the house a lot with my mom on sat night which felt good. i love being there to help her out. i think sometimes she just get so busy singing and doing things for other people that she doesnt make time for herself. we had a good time :)

work is hellish as usual. but thats to be expected. its weird - it feels like my relationship with dev sometimes. where it sucks and i want to complain about it but then i realize that its the same stuff over and over and why do i put up with it. maybe someday when something better comes along (like in the case with dev/satyan) ill wisen up and move on to bigger and better things...thats my attempt to have a positive outlook on work...and worst case, i wait till feb and then think of other options...

hey girls

im back but i think im still on cali time. i was soo tired yesterday, then at night i was wide awake! and this morning i couldnt get out of bed at all.

thats too bad you cant come in dec!! so far in jan i have to go to dc the weekend after new years, so later in the month is better...
if you dont get martin luther king day off, can you come a different weekend? I think I may go away with my parents or satyan since its a long weekend...jan 20-22? does that work for everyone? rupa - whats in portland? julie, will bonuses be paid by then? :)

soooo tired

why isn't it friday yet?? i started watching the interpreter before going to bed last night (we have it on netflix). i figured i'd watch 30 mins or so, then go to sleep. unfortunately, i got hooked and watched over half of it. now i'm sleeeepy. don't tell me how it ends! i like it so far and want to finish it tonight.

welcome back, nush! i hope you had a good trip. good luck catching up . . .

rupa's leaving us early next week -- i can't believe you'll be gone for 3 whole weeks!

my mom's going to colombia today. she's staying until the end of january, i think. i'm sad . . .i don't like it when she goes to colombia for so long, i get so worried. even though things aren't *as* dangerous as they were before, it's still not completely safe. i also don't like the reason she's going -- she has to take care of some family problems for two of her sisters, so it's not going to be all fun and games for her. and i won't get to talk to her as often :(

it doesn't like me :(

i blogged!
where'd it go?

january

i only get five official holidays a year - no martin luther kind day for me . . . but if thats a good weekend for everyone . . . i have no clue what weekend that is . . . i'll wait until nush reads everything to decide :) i'm busy january 25-30 (babysitting my cousins)

now, i'm going to attempt to do some of the work i've been bad at doing the last day and a half since i have a meeting with eun at 2 and class from 11 to 12 :)

i'm back :)

hi there,

i was working from PA yesterday b/c i had to go do a bunch of doctor things for my india trip and b/c my dad came back yesterday! it was good to see him :)

megan i'm now free for all of january. do you get martin luther king day off? then that would be a perfect weekend :) it's also probably enough after sashank's wedding that nush will be less busy. my vote is for that weekend.

i think i want to go to portland one weekend in january. once you decide your trip here i'll pick that weekend away.

i leave in less than a week!! yay!!

i'm here

i was in chicago last night for an info session at u chicago. then i partied til like 2am with one of jacob's co-workers and some of his friends. i'm exhausted. and i was so sleepy and hungover this morning that i just wanted to cry. blah. now i'm at work.

i don't know where rupa is. anusha's in california for a conference (i think) and she'll be back thursday.

the only think i have planned for january is partying like a rockstar after i get my bonus at the end of the month :)

no love?

what i miss? a big party in the nyc corporate world that i'm totally not invited to??

i don't think i'm going to visit in december :( my final is not until right before xmas - so we should plan a visit in january or something (start checking schedules now)

hmm . . . i think that's everything . . .

happy monday all!

i had a pretty bland weekend - i went to buffalo saturday night and went out to dinner with my mom and grandparents followed by coffee/tea at barnes & noble with my mom and aunt . . .

friday, i didn't do much of anything, sunday i came into the lab to make up some hours that i skipped on tuesday.

i watched crash last night . . . i'm not sure what i think about it. i'm inclined to dislike it because everyone was soo angry and soo over the top . . . edgar thought it was great. rupa, you didn't like it? jules/nush - have you guys seen it?

where has everyone been?

flood of emails

if i cant handle my email work load when im in the office, i am totally dreading next week when i am in san fran and have to deal with all of them...

ive been wanting to get my nails done too and havnt had any time in the last 2 weeks! its crazy.

we made tomato bisque with crab

it turned out really well . . . and then we cuddled on the couch watching a special on greece - i fell asleep in his arms and he stayed up watching the show.

basically, i was really happy with last night!

then, i got to work this morning and had to deal with more parking issues. parking angers me greatly because i think its run so horribly. they sell way more passes than they have space for so on any given day its a game to see whether you will be able to find parking. that's on top of me having to take a shuttle. oh, and the woman that works in my lot is a bitch. so, i just went down to parking and aired my complaints very calmly (amazingly calm, in fact, since i got to walk to work this morning and i spent the whole time rehearsing one liners that had a few too many bad words in them . . .) she was really nice (probably because i was so calm) and she was like you had a lot of very valid complaints and i think you need to report them to this guy and handed me the coordinator's cards who is the bitch's boss to email him. she told me it wasn't her first complaint of the morning from that lot and she'd pass them on also. so, i thanked her a lot because having someone proactively listen and say yup, you are validated here, this is what you should do really is key when you are that geared up for a fight. phew. i feel better.

good morning

this weather is gross. it makes me want to crawl in my bed and watch a movie! last night we saw the interpreter. it was great! megan how was the dinner/etc with edgar?

we survived

satyan and i just had our first conf exp together post relationship. it went well :) i sat next to him - we might have snuck in a few touches here and there but overall very professional. :)

i knew that bbc was the british version...i didnt know what coupling was. i just looked up the office american version. its on nbc tues at 930. ill tivo it and watch it sometime to see which i like better...

im not a huge fan of shows on netflix because it seems like way too much crammed into one thing...

english vs bbc

bbc is english. thats what the first b is for (well, british, not english) the american version is on nbc, its in its second or third season with the 40 year old version as the boss.

coupling is another bbc comedy that nbc tried to bring across the atlantic to fill in their crumbling "must see" spots with the finales of frasier, friends and now will & grace.

now im confused too...

whats coupling?

we saw the office that is on bbc. season 1. i heard there was an english version of it....

megan your day/night sounds awesome. the last two days i have not been able to get out of bed at all. both days ive asked satyan if we can call in sick but he has this big presentation tomorrow to hopefully get their seed capitla so he hasnt been able to.

im off to get soaked again and go to a confernce...be back around 3...

the office/coupling

i tried watching the american version of coupling, hated it and then tried the british. the script was the same, basically word for word. the office, while a completely different premise, got the same hype of british hit turned american so i never even tried it. i've seen the ads, it just doesn't look interesting enough.

gilmore girls on the other hand . . .

i skipped work yesterday :) i don't even think eun noticed. it was great, i slept in a little, made edgar go to class (he was going to skip to hang out with me) and while he was at class, i hung out at a starbucks and studied. then we went grocery shopping and played with the dog and hung out just the two of us. then he went to work, i played with the dog alone and met up with jess like an hour later. we went shopping - i really wanted a white tank top. i found two :) plus a black sweater, a orangish/reddish shirt, funky earrings and a hair thing. then we watched gilmore girls. when i went home, i got all annoyed because somewhere in the couple of minutes during the day she wasn't being completely fauned over, dollop had peed and pooed in the corner of the apartment. so, i got all mad at her and went on a cleaning frenzy. then i think she got mad at me and peed again. then she went into her crate. we've made up now, but i think she was pretty darn scared of me for a while last night.

edgar has the night off tonight, so i think we're going to study (he doesn't know that part yet) and make tomato bisque with crabmeat. and maybe watch a movie . . . or the gilmore girls episode i taped for him if he didn't finish it last night . . .

hi

i'm all for skipping the hedge fund things.. they really don't tell you anything that you can't read in the WSJ or even worse just know b/c it's common sense.

i'm confused about which office you watched :) aren't the british one and the english one the same? i saw the american one which sucks b/c they tried to copy the british one so exactly but i really love the british one.

i really like tabla.. i went there for a work thing and also went there on a date a long time ago. the bread was really good but i felt the same way as you about the food.

i went to the opera last night for the first time. it was so much fun.. i was reminded a lot of the sex and the city where alexander takes carrie and she's wearing that big poofy dress and they dance in the courtyard at lincoln center. pia and i got all dressed up and then met for dinner on the upper west side at this seafood place that i now love.. the opera was a german one called ariadne auf naxos. it was really weird actually.. they started a lot of plot lines that they then never finished.. but the singing was amazing. there was one woman who had the most incredible range.. she sang notes that i didn't think human voices could sing. :)

it was really fun.

i finished season 1

its dumb. but parts of it are really funny. we saw the britsh version. some people tell me the english version is much better others say it is much worse, so i dont think i am going to waste my time with it...

have you seen it?

jule/rupa - no more 100 women things unless there is some tempting aspect (other than i think the guy speaking is smart). all eric talked about is where the hedge fund space is going - which is a complete waste of time because i know that already. i wanted to hear why he isnt making money what he attributes it to why he thinks he will make money going forward where he sees opp what he thinks rising rates, gas, and oil prices will do...he didnt talk about any of that!

oh well, dinner was great. rupa, have you ever been to tabla? its an indian french fusion rest that serves tapas style...it wasnt the best indian food but if you didnt think of it as indian it was really good. plus CSFB took up the tab so that was pretty exciting. work dinners can be fun with people our age...

the office

you guys are watching the office now?

good morning

i finished my first research report on a manager yesterday :) steve said it was really good. im pretty excited that i finally get time to do stuff like this for myself. plus i think with the travel this job seems a little more exciting...

bikram was great last night :) i love going there.

jules - apparently we were supposed to get the american version of the office not the britsh version!! the american one is still on tv. so we should look into this...

DC

gosh darn, too bad i have to go to a wedding with jackie that weekend. looks like i'll have to miss the bday celebration.

has everyone noticed their evites?

who wants to go to dc? :)

good morning

i had a fun weekend :) met satyans parents, went to philly, hung out with my fam and his friends..i love philly - everything is so cheap! we went out with 12 people and the whole dinner bill was only 100!!! granted his friends dont drink but still...

yesterday i got back early and just caught up on studying, reading, etc...

i know the feeling

thats how i felt last weekend - but then it turned out to be great. i only had one thing planned the whole weekend and i actaully got stuff done...

i was so busy and had so much energy this morning and now im beat...

cooking

the culinary studio seems like a fun idea.. .i'll look into that, see if i can find some fun/easy/cheap recipes. thanks, megan.

nush, thanks for the invite to philly, but there's no way i can cancel on julia. . .that would break her poor 8-year-old heart. little kids don't handle re-scheduling things so well. it's also been like 2 weeks since i've seen her, and i won't be able to see her next weekend, so i definitely have to hang out with her this weekend.

i'll be fine. . . i hate that i'm being such a big baby about being alone all weekend. i think i'm just more emotional right now since i have my period, so facing a lonely weekend just seems like the end of the world. the shitty rainy weather doesn't help, either. it's so much harder to be depressed when it's sunny and nice out.

julie's weekend

didn't you guys (you and julia) get library cards one weekend? why not go to the library! you guys can pick out books for your respective weekends inside :) or look up fun recipes online (funky nobake cookies or random fall-ish - apple crisp, something with pumpkin) and turn your kitchen into a culinary studio :) rainy weekends can suck but i think there are easy to make fun with a little kid :)

Girls

my weekend wont require much money if you wanted to cancel julia and hang out with her another weekend...you cant go to coney island in the rain!

i think we are just having a lowkey night of drinking at home and playing board games and just hanging out...

today was soooo busy and now i have a ton of work to do but dont know where to start. and i want to get my nails done but i feel like i dont have any time for that! oh well...

i wish i could go to philly. . .

but i can't . . .i shouldn't. i have to hang out with julia tomorrow, so i don't want to be exhausted after a night of partying and all. and i can't afford a night of partying, either. . . but i hope you have fun! who's going from work, besides elanie and gerry? anyone else?

i guess all i have to look forward to this weekend is netflix and our dvr box. . .

Girls

yay so many blogs :)

i'm going to philly tonight. jules you should come with.. a bunch of work people and friends from home are gonna go.. we're going out to dinner and dancing in philly and then everyone but me is coming back to NYC in the morning.

i had fun in boston.. interviewing mit kids was really fun. i hung out with rooz and my sister and tried a bunch of new fun restaurants. and i got a haircut too! i'm excited for this weekend. nush i can't wait to see your hair :)

gosh

everyone has exciting weekend plans except for me! i hate being all alone all weekend :( and i'm supposed to hang out with julia tomorrow but it's supposed to rain, so we can't go to coney island (which is what she wanted to do). . . blah.

maybe i'll go out this weekend and buy a moped like my mom suggested ;) she's so funny - the terrorist threats on the subway are freaking her out, and she always likes to overreact.

nush's bangs look AWESOME! go nush :)

yumm

i havent had wings in a while...

my doctors apt went well. that was the last one! then i went and chopped off my hair (aka got bangs..) its still hard to get used to it but i like it :)

im meeting satyans parents tonight, sleeping over, then going to philly sat...

g'morning

i'm excited because i'm going home this weekend :)
my dad is going to have wings and celery waiting for me :)

have a good wed and thurs...

im leaving now for ct - i have meetings all afternoon and then hopefully my last doc apt tomorrow. it is going to be such a busy day.

glad rupa is smiling!

i too am smiling . . . i mailed my cornell app this morning, so i'm finished! except that my academic advisor never responded to me . . .

then, i got to work and found out my parking lot was full so i actually got to park really close! it just took me half an hour to figure out what lot to go to . . .

so now, i'm at work and enjoying dunkin donuts coffee and a pumpkin muffin . . .

thanks ladies :)

i'm in a much better mood today.. so is my sister.. i talked to her last night and she had just finished cleaning out the apt... sweeping, mopping, and getting rid of his litter box and stuff which made her feel much better. it was catharctic for her. i'm so excited to go there tonight :) i think she's happy to have someone sleeping over for two nights (which i am!). recruiting at mit will be super fun.. i'm glad to go b/c i think that we kinda unfairly evaluate mit kids and i'm glad to me one of the people evaluating them. megan, there's no fun toys.. it's just interviews where we sit in the career services center and they come in one by one.

my sister has picked out two new restaurants in boston that she's really loved to try tonight and tomorrow.. and umm guess what else i'm doing cuz i happen to be in BOSTON and i love to do this thing in BOSTON? :)

yes i'm getting a haircut. :)

thats the one :)

110 degrees in the room. i went to a regular yoga class with J+J a few weeks ago and i thought i liked it - but after going to this i dont think i could ever go back to that one. this one is so much more intense. from a religious standpoint - according to a recent talk i went to - you cant reach mental meditation/self realization until you can accomplish physical, mental, and spiritual yoga...satyan and i are on our way to the physical part :) i can actually hold most of the poses now - there are some really hard ones and i am amazed at what my body can do after just 4 days...i cant wait till tonight :)

sorry nushie :(

i remember you talking about him :(
i'm sure it will mean a lot to him to have you visit and it will be comforting for you to have gotten to see him :(

on the yoga note - is the high intensity/westerners are stupid because you can't understand meditative yoga until you've gained enlightenment through the torture version of yoga? i know i'm saying it wrong, but they had a guy on the news talking about it and showed shots of the work out and it was all basically in shape looking people bending themselves and holding it and sweat dripping from there bodies and muscles twitching - it looked scary . . .

believe it or not i understand too!

im not a pet person but i can understand how attached one can get and how sad it can be...you were telling me all about her cat recently! sorry :(

i had sad news yesterday too. megan and julie - do you remember a guy named bernie? he worked in my dads building and basically would drive us to the airport, pick me up from school, fix things in my house as his major source of income. once a week he would go to my dad and tell him allt he stuff he did and my dad would pay him. he was/is like a grandfather to me. anyway, his wife got alzheimers like 3 years ago so any time he came over she would come too. he was so good to her and took such good care of her. she had a stroke last week and passed away on sat at 3 am. he had a stroke at 7 am the same day :( and is paralyzed and in the hospital. in a morbid way i think its amazing how you become so close to someone that when one person passes away the other person frequently does also...

my mom told me this last night when i got back from yoga. i cried a lot. im going home tomorrow (next doctors apt is on thurs) so i am going to go see him in the hospital. im really bad at coping with death - ive been very lucky (knock on wood) because i havent had to deal with it much...

i go in and out of really sad/choked up feelings. i just want to go home...

on a lighter note - im addicted to bikram yoga. its the best work out i have ever had. satyan came with me last night and it was even more fun. he and i made a pact to go together twice a week. he said hes talked to a lot of people about it and the health benefits of it are amazing and you lose a lot of weight doing it and fast...

i have a new mat in CT - now i just need to buy him one...

i'm sorry about the cat :(

i think pets can become very important parts of a family and its very sad when they die. i'm dreading the day when i get a phone call from my mom telling me star or my cat passed away . . . i understand how you feel :(

its fun that you have something to look forward to (i think? recruiting at MIT sounds fun to me, but maybe its actually not . . . do you get to go around and get the toys are the fair like the students do? you still look young enough to be a student :) )

nush - you can just use satyan as a reward for studying, kind of like doritios :) just schedule an hour of studying time a night before he comes over and promise yourself that you can stop studying as soon as he gets there :) i don't know who lives in 333 :) we lived in 339, 350 was the julie's and ekta (who sent me a bday card by the way) and 375 was juancho and luis . . . so, 333 would have been like betty or jojo's room in that suite by the elevator . . .

morning :)

i missed all the blogs yesterday...

hi everyone! this week is really busy b/c i'll be out thursday recruiting at MIT... i'm kinda in a bummy mood today b/c my sister's cat died. i hate how petty it sounds when a pet dies... my sister's cat was just very very affectionate and really close to all of us and i was about to get to take care of him for a few weeks. he died really suddenly last night.. he just seized for no reason and was dead.. she thinks it was a brain tumor. uggh.. it makes me sad.

other than that i'm good... i like my job a lot :)

who was 333?

i have the worst memory...

megan im so proud of you for doing all of this! i think its great that you are getting all this done...

im about to call and order my cfa books...im dreading all that...i have a hard time focusing on studying with satyan around. it isnt really his fault cause I totally could tell him to read or do something else but sometimes he is just too cute and i dont want to do anything except lay around and talk/watch tv. yesterday we watched tv together from 7-11, i dont think ive ever done that (except for 24 marathons with megan...). we saw 60 min (which i think is one of my fav news shows) then the office (which julie got from netflix), then desparate housewives (which was actually good this week...relatively...), then greys anatomy which im also addicted to now.

339!

i'm so hurt . .

umm . . i think i blew chunks on that biochem test. (did you like that visual?) i think the answers i put down were, for the most part, rational but i only answered like 1/2 to 2/3 of the test - not promising . . .

but i just mailed my georgia application and my experiment for the day is on track to be finished by 4:30. so, i'll get to go home and play with dollop before going to spin cafe and using their internet like the coffee house whore i am. but only 2 more days of this! cornell application needs to be in the mail wednesday!

i give up. i want to open that bottle of wine i got from amberg and ignore the world . .

;)

well if you do that, feel free to mail the test to 63 sullivan, ill put it up on the fridge like we put the 18.02 test on room 333 :)

i started studying this weekend. i think i may look into taking the test on dec 3..ill wait to sign up though and if its booked ill just do it in jan after the wedding.

this month is so busy i dont know how im going to handle it...

test in 15 minutes

and i'm really not ready for it . .
then, finish the georgia supplemental application (which is a stupid repeat of the exact same questions on the general application) then actually do a little work. finish up the day working on the cornell supplemental application - which is not due until wednesday (postmark) i haven't actually looked through it, so who knows if they have an extra essay.

oh, and it took me 2 hours on saturday to submit my general application because first i had to call a help line and find out that although the application can be filled out using safari (its online) you can't submit it on safari, only internet explorer and netscape. after trying with internet explorer and getting a little farther but it still took an awful long time i made a second phone call oh yeah, you can't use a mac, again while everything else works, submission must be done on pc. so, edgar took me to mcc which has pcs in the computer lab. then it took me about 2 seconds . . . meanwhile, i was late to my review session running around attempting to submit it . . .

i'm sooo not motivated to do ANYTHING right now. picture 18.02 test when i wanted to go to the mall so i just showed up to write my name and a couple of jokes . . .