i love my boyfriend

both of us had to get up early today. and the dog woke us up even earlier - so we were both dragging. plus, i was in a miserable mood because of the BS i have to do today. when he got out of class, he called me and left me a message that if there was anything i wanted - a mountain dew, coffee, etc to give him a call and he'd drop it off. and then he called again later (i don't check me messages very often while i'm at work) to tell me he was no longer available to drop off treats as he was working on stuff now and not in the area . . .but if i really needed/wanted something he'd still do it. i just called him and told him i was fine now but i might want a mountain dew and some company around 7 - so he said he could do that :)

hi

i could never deal with a sporadic schedule like yous megan!

things here are good. i found out what my bonus is today. same as las year...which is annoying but i guess good seeing that our performance was half that of last year. anyway they said mid year they would raise my base and promote (which only means that i get 4 weeks vaca instead of 3 - which is awesome!!!) but all that only happens in july which is frustrating.

other than that ive just been busy with work and studying. i started working out again. 3 days in a row so far :)

hellloooo nurse!

ok, when does rupa come home?
and nushie - sorry :( i hope things get better :(

i'm at work in the AM for the first time in 2 weeks. i've been here since 8 and will be here . . . for a while. i really want to leave by 9 so that i can watch house . . . but we'll see if i'm finished by then.

stupid experiment.

but i am living at home again! i missed my dog . . . although she almost died this morning. apparently, its cruel of me to make her sleep in another room (away from the pack) so her crate got moved into the bedroom last night. and she woke up before 6am this morning and started crying. and then stopped and played (loudly) with her bone. and then cried some more. my landlords once joked that one of the tenents in my building (a good friend of their's) used to go into their apartment and walk, play, and take naps with their dog and if i wanted, they would come steal my dog for occasional afternoon naps. i feel like i want to go back and say sure - walk her everyday! knock on the door and if i'm not there, come on in and play with/walk the dog as much as you want! maybe if she used more energy during the day, she wouldn't feel the need to wake up at 6am!

looks like it's just you and me, meg

Girls

rupa's in india working hard, and anusha had a doctor's appt today and she's going to philly for the weekend. sounds like you had a lovely morning. good luck, i'll keep my fingers crossed for you so that you won't have to stay late tonight.

i'm having the best day! we had a department-wide lunch (sushi -- yum) this afternoon, and we also got a cake to celebrate that nick, the head of our department, got promoted to MD (managing director). that's pretty huge. i was kind of bummed this morning because i thought i'd be alone all weekend (with jackie in tampa and anusha in philly), but elaine, one of the girls i work with, invited me to go snowboarding with her and some friends! i'm really excited -- i've been dying to learn how to snowboard for a while now. she's only tried it a couple of times, so both of us are going to take classes. we're going with 2 guy friends of hers. one of them has a house by the mountain, so we won't have to pay for lodging :) anyway, i'm really pumped. we'll leave tonight around 2am or so (after the boys are done partying), and we'll probably come back saturday night. all i have to do is call julia and tell her i'll see her on sunday instead of saturday. . .

anyway, hope you all have a lovely weekend. hopefully i wont' be too beat up on monday. . .

good morning! sort of . . .

I guess its not really morning, but i just got to work soo . . .
i spent the morning with my cousins and edgar - it was very casual, very nice :) edgar and i had talked last night that he would come over after his class (one class MWF at 8am!! sucks . ..) and i jokingly said i'll have a medium french vanilla from dunkin donuts with cream and sugar. he was like you'll have to tell me that again tomorrow - so he called me this morning from the dunkin donuts line and brought me coffee! it was a lovely way to start my morning :)

i think that today will be really short (fingers crossed!) because there are no blood draws scheduled and hopefully hopefully hopefully they won't find any more RSV positive people (they found 3 yesterday and delivered them to me at the super extra early time of . . . 4:45pm) i really don't want to be here until 10 again tonight . . . which is kind of lazy of me since i didn't get here until 2:30 but . . . i feel like there is going to be chaos with the boys if they are home alone that long. ryan is already MIA - "i'm going for a run and probably going to stop at my friend's house two doors down" said at noon, he hadn't returned by 2. and george was on the phone with a girl when i was leaving who he knew is probably going to go out on a date with.

damnit, i just got a phone call that i have a sample coming. but its a stupid may or may not be positive one tube sample so there is a slim slim possibility that all i have to do is freeze it, but i wouldn't even ask if it weren't friday, my only sample, and worried about ignoring the boys that long on a friday night. . .

update

im getting it done at the place i get my nails done near my office. i think most nail salons have affiliations with people who do this kind of thing...it isnt anything too new. the apt tomorrow is with an endocrinologist (hormone doctor). basically at this point the goal has been to rule out any problems from a specialist point of view - so far everything has been ruled out. who knows. im going to ct next thurs to see the original doctor. she says no more injections since im not responding to it and she wants me to come in. she was on maternity leave and hasnt seen me in a long time.

urgh. plus today our allocation material went out. it drives me nuts that things can be so unorganized. today the only saving grace is knowing that i report to brian :) plus my mom will be here in 2 hours :)

im going to philly tomorrow but i may come back sat. two of our good friends have bday parties tomorrow night and i may come back to go to them. but my brother is planning on cooking an elaborate meal tomorrow night so i may be tempted to stay.

happy thursday

nush, i'm glad we made you look good :) i'm also glad i finally got to go to one of satyan's shows! something else always came up the past few times. . . it was fun. when's your mom coming, is that today? i'm sorry about your eyebrows :( where are you getting it done? helga does it too -- i don't know if you've ever noticed the posters in her place. . . i know all this has been really difficult on you, but i can't believe how well you've been handling everything. and it's great that you look at the positive things -- like having satyan (you guys are so cute) and that your parents are close enough to be able to help you through everything. how come you have another appt on friday? more injections? didn't you just have one last week?

changing the subject -- i saw fever pitch last night and thought it was so cute! i wasn't expecting a whole lot, and i was very pleasantly surprised. maybe it's because i also love sports -- the heat, the red sox -- so i could totally understand to his obsession. or maybe it's because most of my guy friends from high school are also obsessed with miami teams. . .anyway, it was a nice way to end my very busy day. i feel like today should be friday! it's been a long week. . .

jackie's going to tampa this weekend to see her family, and i think anusha's going to philly, so i'm really not looking forward to spending a weekend all alone. is it weird that i hate being alone so much? oh well. i'm seeing julia on saturday. other than that, i have no plans. i can't wait to go home next weekend! my parents are thinking about moving back to colombia for good this summer. i don't know if they're serious about it or if they're still on a high from their 4 month trip, but i'm not so happy about that. i like that i can go home every 1-2 months to see my parents, and that i can talk to them at least once a day. i don't know how i'm going to handle only seeing them 1-2 times a year :(

thanks jules :)

julie jackie and ellen came to satyans show last night! falu was so impressed - you guys made me look good :) esp yesterday since it was such a big show for them! :)

he was so cute yesterday. i didnt see him or talk to him on monday and i was kind of irritated and i think he could tell -so he came all the way to my office for dinner before the show then after the show he came over despite having his tablas with him. this morning we could not get out of bed. i love him :) he makes me so happy.

i think since he came over last night despite all this, ill go over there toniht after my class. my mom is coming tomorrow because i have another apt on friday. and also tomorrow after work im getting my eyebrows done - ie permanent makeup on them because they are starting to thin and the doctor said it is really common for someone who is losing as much hair as i am to also lose eyebrows :( and if i wait too long then they may not know what my natural eyebrow line is...so im doing that after work at a nail place near my office. this whole thing is driving me nuts. i cant wait for it all to be over. and all i know is that i am thankful everyday to have someone like satyan there to comfort me all the time. and of course my trendy roommates with fun hats for me to wear when i go out :)

happy tuesday!

i got to work half an hour ago, i slept in until 10am this morning (with a slight break at 7 to walk the dog) did some laundry, ate breakfast and walked through this random tile store that edgar wanted to walk through. i think today is going to go smoothly so i have no reason to be frustrated or upset and yesterday there were no RSV positive bloods, so i was only at work for 2 hours.

of course between when i started writing this and presently, my boss found me. she also sent me this amazing email about the three other things she'd like me to be doing right now. wow. that woman can get under my skin . . .

i think i was planning on saying more when i started, but i need to go talk to the boss lady . . .

mood swings

jules, your last blog was "tired and grumpy" this one is happy and awake.... :) im amused...

im still a bit tired. i dont know if i blogged this but as of yesterday i report to brian and not steve. it actually makes me want to work more! i like doing things that he asks me to do...things are just much better here. plus i get a bonus in like 2 weeks...

tonight satyan has a show. i think a lot of my friends are coming but its only 12 - by 8 pm when it starts im sure most will back out. my cousin, patty, ellen, and corey (the guy i wanted to set jackie up with) and maybe julie are supposed to come...this show is supposed to be big - they have a few record labels and the like coming :)

this is my first 5 day week in a while...i dont know how ill last!

what a great day :)

it's sunny outside, i got plenty of sleep last night, and my parents are finally back from colombia! i miss rupa, but other than that, things are pretty good :) it's amazing what one night of sleep will do to you. now if only i didn't have to sit in front of a computer and "recruit" for 10 hours, i'd be ecstatic.

i'm hanging out with julia this weekend and i'm drawing a blank when it comes to what we should do. any ideas? what would you want to do if you were an 8-year-old and manhattan was your playground? she has no attention span, so i don't think a museum will work. anyway, i'm open to suggestions.

have a good day, ladies :)

hmmmm

sorry, megan, but our technical advisor, rupa, is off working hard in india, so i'm afraid you're not going to get a very good answer to your ihome question. I've seen the ihome at the apple store, but i don't really know a ton about it. i read some reviews online just now and some people love it, some people hate it (i know, not very helpful). that's probably what you should do, though. read some reviews online, see what people like/hate, then make your decision.

my parents finally got back to miami today from colombia! i'm glad they'll be readily accessible via cell phone again, and i'm so excited about going home in a couple of weeks to see them. i wonder if i'm ever going to stop feeling homesick. . .

i had a really good weekend, although today i'm exhausted and in a grumpy mood (rainy mondays do that to me). friday night was jackie's company holiday party, so we got all dressed up and hung out with all her work people. saturday evening i went to the movies with marcus. we saw match point, which i thought was only ok, but we had a good time. he walked me back to my apt after the movie and we had fun talking and laughing the whole time. he gave me a very nice kiss goodnight at my door, then he left. i dont know when we're going to hang out again. his birthday is tomorrow. . .

anyway, after that i went to free wine for dinner with evelyn and alejandro (a friend of coy's from miami who was in town for the weekend with some friends. he's colombian and has a crush on me. . .). anyway, free wine was fun. then we met up with jackie and some guys she was with at the copacabana for some salsa and merengue. i had so much fun! evy and i did not stop dancing at all. . .we were there until like 4:30am. i danced with alejandro a lot, but there were also a lot of guys there who ask you to dance as soon as you sit down. a lot of them are older, but it's cool because everyone is there just to dance, not to grind up on you or anything. sunday i was pretty much worthless and only left the apt to go to mammouns for lunch. i still feel so exhausted, though. . .too bad it's only monday :(

ihome

while over at a friend's apartment, i noticed her nifty clock/radio/ipod speaker combo thing. then, i ran into it again while wandering target - an ihome. i read random stuff online and it seems just great (considering the only things i really would want to listen to are the radio and my ipod and right now i don't really have a radio to listen to) i figured you guys would have opinions since it is an ipod gadget :)

hi!

HI girls :)

no blogs in two days?? im leaving work at 1 today to go for my next set of injections :( the only good thing is my mom is coming for it. this morning i got sad/scared to think about the 100 injections im going to get, so satyan gave me over 100 kisses to make up for it :) he is such a cutie...but i told him that prob wont make up for it cause its soo painful.

anyway last night we went to amma. it was awesome!! i love that place. esp when someone is taking us out and its free :)

life's highs and lows

so, i wasn't planning to come to work today until 2 - but i needed to be here by 2 so that i had enough time to do stuff that needed to get done by 3. i called the other lab to see if i could pick up samples (because the woman always seems so put out by having to drop them off) and they were like someone is scheduled at 1:45, call back then to confirm they showed. 1:45, they hadn't showed but call back in 5 minutes. 5 minutes go by, yeah still not here . . . so, then i don't get to work by 2 and i'm running behind. i figured out a way that i didn't screw me over too much but it was annoying. then, by 3:30 the blood still wasn't here so i got all excited thinking that the person never showed and i'd get to leave by 7 today and get a break from work! nope, got a call at like 4:30 that yes, the bloods have arrived. so, now i'm going to be here until late . . . and i don't think i'm going to finish what i'm doing right now by 6 (which is when the next person is signed up to use this computer) but i have a limited time to run the samples, so i'll have to come back at 9 (when the person is done) and finish them then . . . so i'm going to be here FOREVER!

blah. but i did get to hang out a little with edgar this morning and then go out to lunch with jess and clark . . .

ditto

i know exactly how you feel -- the rain makes me so grumpy, too! i just hate the world for not letting me stay in bed and under the covers today. i'm going to happy hour with rupa and a few friends from work at 5:30, so at least i have something to look forward to. too bad it's only 11:45! :(

and evelyn's coming this weekend -- i'm so excited to see her! i need to try to keep reminding myself of these things so i won't be so miserable all day. . .

urgh

this day has been so miserable. i even bought and finished my starbucks already.

i got here at 830 - allen is in boston today and has already called me twice, once complaining about everyone else, then the second time to call and ask me about a slide that i put together for him like 2 weeks ago. there was a mistake in one column of numbers :( so he was mad...all i could do was fix the numbers to represent what he wanted and then resend it - but he has already presented it before. i think he was more mad because he doesnt expect mistakes like that from me, but it was such a random assignment and i misunderstood what he wanted. i have a footnote that explains what i did, but that got lost in the compliance approval step so the footnote i wrote wasnt even part of the slide...

and its only 11 am :(

good thing i went to my class last night. i get to leave today and just go home, relax and then study a bit. i cant wait till tomorrow - a work colleague is taking satyan and i and two other people out to amma (my fav indian rest) and friday my mom sashank and kerry are coming...

i hate the rain. it makes me moody.

it's 7pm and i'm still at work

as i seem to always be lately . . .
but i think this should be the last day/evening i do this annoying been here since 8:30am, staying until 7:30pm thing . . . i think tomorrow i can officially to the 2 to 10 thing i've been dreaming about and continue doing so until the end of february. maybe. possibly. god, i hope so . . .

...and yesterday was mlk

i had so much fun yesterday :) satyan and i had a full day just to ourselves doing fun things around the city. i cant remember the last time we got to do that. we spend a lot of time together but often its just doing routine stuff.

we went out to brunch, then to the apple store where he bought a nano - its soo cool! then went to starbucks, i studied and he read for like 3 hours :) then went to a different coffee shop where we continued the same. its weird how i actually got a lot of work done and had a lot of fun doing it yesterday :) then we got the best pizza ive ever had in the city. an indian girl opened this pizza place on 74 and 2nd called slice. it was sooo good. a little pricy but def worth it. then we watched what the bleep - i liked it but it def dragged on at the end. it was very interesting...im glad i watched it with him, it was way too boring when i started it on my own before.

then we watched 24. megan are you watching it this season?? they had a 4 hour season premiere this weekend.

im going to class tonight from 545-845...

its only tuesday

i opened up the page and saw that the posts from monday were still there and thought geez, i know i have been busy this week but no one else has posted anything since monday??!!!! then it hit me that its only tuesday.

but my day is going better than yesterday. i need to get my attitude under control because between yesterday and today, i've grown down right rude to eun - which i think she deserves but its still totally inappropriate to convey that feeling to my boss. oh weell . . .

ditto

on the mondays :) especially when the whole rest of the office is out! (sorry you don't get today off, megan). i'm sure it must be freezing there too! i think it's a treat yourself to starbucks kind of day.. so you should do that if you can :) and the vacation idea is a great one. how about next weekend? take a road trip!!

how is dollop doing?

i despise monday

i am in the best mood sunday night and then sometime between the second and third time i hit snooze on monday mornings my mood starts to plummet. by the time i've hit the shower, i'm agitated. by the time i'm in the car, i'm downright annoyed. by the time i walk into the lab - i've got a headache and i've morphed into the wicked bitch of the west. i think i need a vacation really bad.

late nights

geez both of you worked late! this week was pretty nice for me since allen is on the west coast. i got a lot of time to just get my work done but was able to leave by 5/530 every day...

they put thought into matching - same sex matches first off, and then you check off all your interests and stuff and they match those things. they called satyan for a reference too (and prob rupa since those were the 3 people i put) - he didnt know if he was a business reference or a personal one so he siad he kept getting confused at how to respond.

ive been in a funk lately and i dont know why. i hope a relaxing weekend helps me snap out of it..

megan about thurs/fri - i wont be much fun around then so i dont want to have to take a day off on my account...but ill def be at once upon a tart :) i just might miss out on all the drinking action at night and be around for the morning after coffee/brunch :)

sounds great, nush

that program sounds so cool! i got a call from someone last week asking me to provide a reference for you. i had to lie and tell them you were a very sweet, thoughtful, and responsible person :)

i'm exhausted today. i was at work til almost 9:30 yesterday, but i think i've finally caught up with everything i got behind on when i was in colombia. tonight i'm going with jackie to her floor's holiday party (so it's everyone on the exchange). it should be fun. she called me this morning to tell me that a bunch of guys have been asking her if she's bringing her cute roommate :) other than that, i'm just really looking forward to getting some rest this weekend.

poor dollop... i remember when my doggie got spayed. i was pretty young, but i felt so bad for her! she just layed around for a few days.

sounds great, nush

that program sounds so cool! i got a call from someone last week asking me to provide a reference for you. i had to lie and tell them you were a very sweet, thoughtful, and responsible person :)

i'm exhausted today. i was at work til almost 9:30 yesterday, but i think i've finally caught up with everything i got behind on when i was in colombia. tonight i'm going with jackie to her floor's holiday party (so it's everyone on the exchange). it should be fun. she called me this morning to tell me that a bunch of guys have been asking her if she's bringing her cute roommate :) other than that, i'm just really looking forward to getting some rest this weekend.

poor dollop... i remember when my doggie got spayed. i was pretty young, but i felt so bad for her! she just layed around for a few days.

hello!

i was here until 10:15ish last night . . . my hours have been rather sporadic.
dollop went to get spayed today, she's already out of surgery but i can't pick her up until tomorrow morning :(

nush - that program sounds great! are you just paired up at random with the kids or do they put thought into matching up people? random tidbit - i know bank of america is huge but i found out that someone i graduated high school with works for boa in like virginia or some other random southern state.

ok, i've told everyone that needs to know that i'm going to nyc in april - do you guys want me thursday night or friday?

good morning

yesterday i went to this training session for a mentoring program i am going to do and it sounds like so much fun :) the program teaches kids about technology (computers, email, web pages, blogs, etc) and when they go to this imentor class, they write an email to their "buddy" about whatever the topic is that week - my responsibility is to write back to them at a min of once a week...and they plan events for us during the year, we have to go to at least 2 / semester. im pretty excited :) i wanted to do the family center program that julie does but cant committ to the time she is able to with studying at all. ive been wishing there was some other program that i could do that isnt as time intensive - and this is perfect :) plus their mission/concept is interesting. i like that we are supplementing a classroom environment..

that was my night :) then i just went home and watched some tv and went to bed. tonight im going to satyans and will be back in the city on sunday...sunday and monday will be mostly studying. my weekly class was realyl good - i just have A LOT of work to do before every class. they gave us a wonderful drop dead date of tax day to finish all the readings at least once...

none today?

no blogs today? it's already 1pm :)

!!!

i don't actually have anything exciting to say, but everyone else seemed to be peppering their blogs with exclamation points so i wanted to be part of the fun :)
i had my lab meeting today, it went so so - but since i expected really crappy, so so is phenomenal!

then gen courtney and i went to the grocery store to get chips, beer, soda for a floor wide meeting this afternoon that one of our grad students is presenting at - i got half a sub and a soda and it tasted yummy but now i feel ridiculously full and just want to lay down and watch a movie.

hopefully, i can avoid eun for the rest of the day, get my work done in peace and leave as soon as the floor meeting ends . . .

good morning:)

the show was a lot of fun! rupa all night satyan just kept talking about the word cow :) i love doing things like that in NY that are totally different from my usual routine. I think Satyan and I are going to take a day off in the next month or so and make a whole day of it...go ice skating, go on one of those NY movie tours, go out to eat...i think i need a day like that - i thought this month would slow down since all the chaos of the wedding is over, but its just busier and busier...

my class starts tonight :-/

i'm here, too, and crazy busy!

this is the crappy part about going away on vacation -- all the work that piles up while you're gone! i'm still happy and glowing from the great time i had in colombia, though, so i'm not bitter yet. . .

nush and rupa, i can't wait to hear about the show! glad you girls had a good time. i've been too exhausted between work and going to the gym to do anything social at night. rupa, i'm wearing the earrings you brought me from india with a bracelet my aunts gave me in colombia. they match perfectly! i'll come down later to show you :)

megan, that weekend in april sounds great! i can't think of a better way to celebrate tax day!

ok, back to work. and i still need to catch up on the blogs i missed. . .

morning!

hi ladies :) i've been mia forever, i know.. and i will be for the next many weeks, but wanted to say hey. work is great.. just really busy. i'm working on our india-related projects which means i'll get to go there again! i leave next friday for my first trip and come back about a week and a half later.. i'm really excited.. but it's crazy busy. i don't know how people do this all the time for years! i feel like i'm working nonstop and am still buried.

jules, sorry i haven't seen you in days.. come down and visit if you can :)

nush got me the best xmas present and we enjoyed it last night :) it was tickets to 25th annual putnam county spelling bee.. it was SUCH a good show. really funny and interactive.. they had members of the audience go up and be in it. i think i'm gonna get my parents tickets to that as an early anniversary present.. or a bday present for them on my bday :) i don't think the show is around for too much longer.

it was really fun.. and it was nice to hang out with satyan too.

megan i'm excited for your visit! april feels far away but i feel like it was just october so it'll go fast. that's it. hope everyone is well.. haven't read the blogs in a while so i need to catch up soon. maybe this weekend.

oh! i'm going to boston this weekend.

oh again! here are pics from my new years/xmas/december in general if you want to see!!

apparently i'm full of it

i just looked it up - apparently i do get labor day and memorial day . . . i could have sworn i only got 5 days . . . hmm, maybe it just FEELS like i work that much :)

mlk

presidents day is in feb - on miss rupas bday this year :)

work this week has been so slow because allen is gone. no one is really working! it kind of pisses me off actually that im here and working hard and no one is around except brian and liz...

anyway i think ill take some time to study or something while im at work...

you dont get memorial day off?? isnt that mandatory??

long weekend?

is it president's day or something?
the only days we have paid holidays for are 1. xmas 2. two days for thanksgiving (thursday and friday) 3. new years 4. july 4th for a total of 5 paid days off.

i have to work. after tomorrow this week, i think i will be working 2pm to 10ish. i think . . .i thought i'd be doing that this week but so far it hasn't happened.

have you guys ever seen office space? where he gets hypnotized into apathy and the guy dies before he can snap him out of the apathy? thats how i feel right now. its like i've gotten too frustrated to be any more frustrated so i've given up and just don't care.

good times, good times.

documentary

he basically likes watching any movie i want to see :) it works out quite well for me except when we are busy and netflix movies sit in my apt for so long that i end up watching it by myself...but ill wait for him for this one - he likes movies that spur discussion like this one will seem to do.

thanks for your summary and motivation :) it worked! ill probably watch it over the weekend at his parents house

do you have a long weekend this weekend? what are you planning on doing?

what the bleep do we know

its soooo good!!!
you may want to watch it in doses though. and with somebody. preferably jules and rups so we can have a group discussion about it over muffins and coffee at once upon a tart on april 16th :)
the movie is a bit hard to swallow whole - basically it asks you to believe that what seems like total science fiction is real (parallel plans, etc.) but if you keep an open mind it kind of asks you to rethink what you believe to be so obvious fundamental law that you don't even think of it as being a variable, just a given - where in reality, leaps in science (and even culture and theology) take place only when a scientist steps back and questions a "given" (the world is flat! the sun circles the earth!)
is satyan for or against weird documentary-ish movies?

its ok :)

i think i need a vacation too. i had the opportunity to go to FL with satyan in feb but my parents wont let me travel with them - back to their silly notion that i cant stay in a hotel with him. urgh. part of me wants to tell them that he stays over almost every night and see what they think of that :) its ok though - i also dont want to piss them off. things with him are going so well that id rather just let things be and do things that make them happy. i think he and i may just take a day off to hang out in the city or something...

studying is back in full swing :( i signed up for the weekly classes, so every wed from 545-845 thats where ill be...

megan - i havent seem what the bleep do we know - from reading the description i cant even figure out what its about - but its on my desk waiting to be seen..prob this weekend sometime...

sorry nushie :(

you were counting on me and i failed you yesterday . . .
my job is one big headache right now. i dread waking up and going to it every morning and i'm starting to get a bit argumentative with my boss. i've been here since 7 (oh yeah, good times) and will probably be here until 5 or 6 tonight. i'm presenting at lab meeting tomorrow and i'm working on an experiment today so i'll be rather busy. why would i plan an intensive experiment the day before a presentation, you ask? well, i'll tell you - i didn't. friday afternoon it was dropped on me in passing. in fact, had shelley not had to ask eun a question about her part in the experiment i may not have known i was doing it. eun didn't bother to ask what my schedule looked like - but don't worry, after a phone call and an email, she eventually got around to calling me yesterday. and she'll meet with me sometime this morning. no wait - she's got a meeting at ten. so i'm hoping that means she can meet with me this afternoon but from experience i'm recognizing the distinct possibility that she'll have time to fit me in ooh, right about the climax of my experiment through lunch and then as we are finally getting somewhere with my presentation she'll have a really important meeting she HAS to rush off to. she's usually about an hour and 15 minutes late to our hour and a half lab meeting, so part of me wants to lace the first hour of my presentation with total cynicism that will be completely lost on her as she won't be there - but it will be just my luck that this will be one of the few times she pulls through for me (she generally does when tim is watching)

yeah, i'm pretty frustrated. i think i need a vacation.
on a happier note, edgar and i hit 2 years on saturday :) we haven't celebrated yet.

JULES (caps so in case you skim you know to read this part) - i'm sure you have been too busy to wade through the blogs you missed so i'm going to mention it again - since i can't come until march anyway, i was thinking of pushing my semi-annual pilgrimage to the city back until april . . . say the 14th to the 16th? just waiting for your go ahead and i'll pass the dates onto eun (who will say yes of course promptly forget and be all confused on the 13th when i tell her no, i cannot meet with you tomorrow as i will be jetsetting off to nyc - seriously, really bitter right now) and then reserve my seat on jet blue!

good morning

the DE shaw girls are always busy on mondays...megan what are you up to???

i had a draining weekend...lots of doctors apts etc etc...yesterday was nice though - i had coffee with satyan, went out with some of his friends then just watched a movie in the apt.

happy new year!

i'm back and have a ton of work to catch up on so i can't really write much, but i just wanted to say hi! hopefully i'll get to catch up on reading the blog soon. i had an amazing vacation! it was so great to see my grandmothers and cousins and aunts and uncles. . .i'm really sad to be back, though. i just got used to being around tons of people all the time, so the apartment felt really empty when i got home last night, and i still haven't been able to shake off that empty feeling. oh well. i want to go back again at the end of this year, but hopefully for longer. 12 days was nowhere nearly long enough.

damn you!

and debated what size your bed was too! shake fist!
there is more coming - expect a package soon :)

sheets :)

thanks for the new sheets megan!! except that I have a queen size bed not a full size bed :) but I think I should be able to take it to the store and exchange it...

welcome back jules!!

works for me too...

provided julie isnt planning some crazy cruise get away again this year :) well have to wait till jules gets back tomorrow to find out what she is thinking about her bday...

cable: has never worked since we moved in. it has major issues and every 2 months something happens to it and its all fuzzy/doesnt record well etc etc. its annoying to the point that id rather just get rid of it!! anyway jackie was going to call some manager there that she has been dealing with so well have to wait till she finds out what the problem is...

works for me!

i like that idea. busy day but hi! hope all is well

you broke your cable?

what's wrong with your cable? (asked with a slightly bitter/sarcastic undertone as i haven't had any type cable, much less the deluxe stuff you guys subscribe to since i moved into my present place)

i'm going to be weirdly and unexpectedly busy throughout january and february as it is RSV season. since its already being pushed out until march, why don't i wait until april? how is the 14th to the 16th for everyone?

march??

we pushed it out to march?? i order of preference is the 17, 24, 3. The weekend of the 10th I will probably go home becasuse my mom will just be getting back from India....

I slept 10 hours yesterday! went to be at 10 and didnt get up till 730!! it was great. of course time warner still sucks and our cable is still not fixed despite me leaving work super early to take care of that....

weekend

did you guys decide what weekend in march the three of you were free?

hello!!!

the week was wonderful. the wedding was absolutely beautiful. it was the best wedding i had ever seen - very tasteful and sophisticated. the band was phenomenol - everybody was dancing the whole 5 hours of the reception!! and satyan met my ENTIRE family. and he survived :) and actually liked them despite all their questioning about when our wedding will be etc etc...the amusing part is after the whole weekend yesterday he started talking about places he would go for a honeymoon!! it was fun but surreal at the same time. anyway then the conversation started to scare us so we just kept talking about the weekend...

julie gets back tomorrow, i see rupa on tues night for her xmas present, megan - did you pick a weekend??

happy new year!

:) good morning everyone.. how were weekends?