yeah, it won't happen . . .

they are kind of a lab budding off of our lab - so it would be a HUGE slap in the face to eun . . . i don't really like the new boss that much either, but she is very my technicians should work 9 to 5, only in extreme circumstances should they be here outside of those hours (eun just ignores the hours that i'm here unless i point them out to her) hopefully, i'll just get a break from this for at least a couple of weeks after this grant data is finished tomorrow. one more night here late and tomorrow should be a 9 to 5 day . . . well, 8 to 5 . . .

go for it!!

what stops you from looking into a job with them? if you can switch from a horrible boss to a good one its totally worth it!! you get a lot more of those "we like you" comments then :) speaking from recent personal experience...

totally just made me smile

i have a pretty busy, long day today . . . but so far everything is on track (fingers crossed) i had to go to shipping and receiving to pick up an antibody that was ordered for me - but it was ordered by someone else under his name so i dragged him with me (mattie c) and kelli came just for fun. we walked in and everyone was like HEY! and happy to see them (usually, i'm lucky if i get one or two glances) then everyone was chatty and bending over backwards to help us find the package. um, that also doesn't usually happy. they are just so much friendly in the HIC lab then here! there is a position open in that lab, and they keep telling me i should just quit my job and move down there. today, matt was like dude, if we don't get this flu grant (the stuff i've been working on as well as some other people) and someone has to lose there job, we've been talking about it - you should just come down here and courtney can switch over and work for eun! partially, the suggestion was made because courtney would KILL eun but also just because they like me downstairs (and are rather lukewarm about gen and courtney - and eun for that matter)

its just nice to have a random 'we like you' moment :)

:)

im glad such bad lazy habits remind you of me :) but for the record, i dont think ive done that since i was in college!! (i also just own tooons of underwear now :)) and luckily for me i stay at satyans so often that when he does laundry (which is way more frequent than I do) i get clean underwear! i still only send out my laundry when i get to the thong stage as well....

i had a lot of fun last night too :) megan we missed you a lot! i stayed up way past my bedtime and ill probably be regretting it during my third hour of class tonight, but nonetheless it was awesome!

i can solve that problem!

just cut out the gym ;) you'll have way more time to hang out with one another!!! AND since you'll get all fat from not only dropping the gym, but eating things like wings on a regular basis that you won't look good in any going out type clothes, won't get out and meet new people and will have even MORE time to hang out with one another.

dude, i'm a frickin' genius!!!

whoa

meg, i was so confused when i first started reading your last blog. i didn't understand why thongs would make you think of anusha, and to be honest, i thought it was a little weird. . .now it all makes sense, though :)

it was so nice hanging out with rupa and anusha last night! we ordered wings and watched rent and sat around chatting for a while. . . it's crazy that we don't do things like that more often, and we all live in the same city! i guess it's just so tempting to go home on weeknights after a long day at work and the gym. . .

ok ladies, hope you all have a great day.

makes me think of anusha

i'm going to do something i've never done before - and it makes me think of anusha. i was too lazy this weekend to do laundry (which is REALLY lazy since its only just next door and its free) but i was having a nice time being lazy with edgar and i just didn't get around to it . . . so now the only underwear i have left is thongs - which doesn't usually bother me, its kind of like my 2 week warning to do laundry. but i also started my period this morning. i can't do period and thongs. so now i'm going to go to the store tonight and buy new underwear just so i don't have to do laundry for a couple more days :)

thank you ladies :)

i LOVE them.... thank ya!!!

nice pics!

its probably my computer which has issues...

hopefully i can go home soon so i have time to work out before our movie date..

megan, how was the weekend?

hmmm

don't know if it helps but i always use "http://usfour.rups.net" and it works fine. it should be the same though.... may be something about your browser.. do you have trouble with other sites refreshing?

bday pics are up :)
click here

link

http://onlyus.rups.net/

thats the link i go to ... and sometimes it doesnt refresh the page and sometimes it does...

tell more details of the weekend!! satyan and i had a lot of fun friday night. he really wanted to go to brunch on sunday but i was strict and said we needed to study :) we got a lot of work done, i worked out, and we watched a movie (weather man - it was really stupid - im disappointed in nicolas cage)

this week is so crazy for me!! tonight Julie rupa adn i are going to watch rent, tomorrow i have class, wed i go home (my mom gets back from india), thurs more doctors, friday im here, sat im going to philly and/or NJ for 2 bday parties...sunday im supposed to see toral but we always cancel so im not counting on that one...

good morning!

how is everyone? i had a lovely weekend and am feeling much better..

link

is it like a shortcut that you have made to link? maybe there is something wrong with that.. like it's a link to an old version and always goes back to that or something.. can you paste what the link is? me curious.

weird

not sure why it freezes.. tha'ts weird. i have started using the email address option.. b/c it's fast and less obvious to my boss :)

now i see them...

i always post from the link at the top (on my tool bar) and sometimes it just freezes from DAYS ago...

there are so many options for your bday weekend!! it sounds like so much fun :) I need to study a lot, so im trying to figure out what the best things for me to join in on are...maybe dinner friday and brunch sunday? cant decide...

weird

can you not see ours or the ones that you write? how do you post? using the link at the top?

how come i cant see the blogs??

am alive

after a miserable two days i am back from the dead... i'm alive and my fever broke (i have never been as excited to sweat)

i feel SO much better.. i slept a lot and took it easy.. which i realize i haven't done in weeks.. i don't think i've slept more than 5 hrs in at least 4 months.. which is why my body is catching up!

anyway i hope everyone is doing well.. nush, you feeling better? this weekend is still on so i will get to see you. megan, sorry about your crazy work nights.. how is edgar's pinky? that is a funny word.

jules.. come visit!

good morning :)

im all smiles but im not really sure why :) im still sick and didnt sleep well...but then last night i was thinking that all my blogs have been so blah this week and they shouldnt be. things arent that bad...im sick but life goes on..anyway that mentality is making me much happier.

im going to try to leave work early today....hopefully it actually happens today...

no sore throat for me...

still feel crappy though. and now just got my period too. im pretty sure im either going to stay home tomorrow or go home right after we send out the package.

i just talked to rupa. i could barely hear her but she said she feels a little better. i hope we can at least hang out this weekend even if it isnt going out...

im leaving soon for class....

oh, just saw the blogs from today

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meg, 4:30 is crazy!!! you don't get paid overtime, do you? :(

how did edgar hurt his pinkie?

the plans for the rest of rupa's birthday week are up-in-the-air, i guess. the doctortold rupa to stay home and sleep, so i'm guessing she probably shouldn't be out partying. she really really really wants to party and celebrate, though, so she doesn't want to call everything off just yet. i think she's going to wait until tomorrow to see how she feels. i'm keeping my fingers crossed for her. . .

rupa's still home sick :(

she went to the ER and found out that she has strep throat :( poor rupa. hopefully she'll stay away from her computer and get plenty of rest and start feeling better soon. . .

nush, your throat doesn't hurt, does it?

megan, it sounds like you've been working like crazy! hopefully you'll be able to stay home friday. . .

work here has been busy. blah. it all just seems never ending.

rupa's birthday dinner was so much fun! there were just a few of us there, which was nice. we had a lot of yummy food and like 4 bottles of wine.

ok, back to work. . .

need to go home!!!

if it werent the end of the month i probably wouldnt have come in yesterday or today :( i dont feel well at all and i think its getting worse being here...

rupa or jules blog about the dinner!!! what are the plans for the rest of the week??

running on 3 hours of sleep

i was here until 4:30am yesterday (well, this morning i guess) AND edgar got driven to the emergency room last night for a huge gash that required 14 stitches on his pinky.

pinky is kind of a funny word . . .

i'm super tired and keep shifting between almost giddy to ready to cry when people speak to me . . . but luckily, someone else is adding my monensin so i just need to be here long enough to set up my stimulation (which should happen in the next 20 minutes) then edgar and i are going grocery shopping, to blockbuster and then hopefully to take a nap - since he came and sat with me from like midnight to 4:30. i'll have to come back at 6ish to stain and run my samples . . . but after discussing it with the more reasonable people (ie not my boss) i have a plan of attack that will still keep me here until midnight or 1, but that is a far cry from 4:30 :)

i'm sorry everyone's sick :(

i can't wait to hear about rupa's bday celebrations :)

i'm having another long day at work - i might be here until midnight or 1 again . . . and then again tomorrow . . . and thursday . . . and next monday and tuesday. if it happens, i will hopefully be able to stay home friday - as long as i don't get a sample for the other project i'm presently working on . . .

so, you guys should continue to write blogs so that i have something to entertain me when i'm running my samples tonight!!!!!

hi

i haven't blogged all day.. i've been working from home. i am also sick like nush.. and dinner/wine last night made it much worse (not surprising).

dinner was super fun.... will blog more about it tomorrow (unless the now-healthy jules wants to start today!)

thanks for the gift email :) i'm excited to see what i got.. and i promise to open it with jules

where are the blogs??

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no blogs?

how was the bday dinner??

Happy Birthday Rupa :)

Im here megan :)

That sounds awesome!

I came to work today to study with satyan. We came here because we had to buy tickets to go to a conference in FL and I have to buy it from work...we booked them a little while ago :) im excited to go on "vacation" with him!!

one of our good friends got married yesterday. it was lots of fun. i met more of his family which was great :)

im also really sick :( i think i have what julie had last week...if we had internet at home i wouldnt come in tomorrow...but i have to come be connected so i think ill have to come in.

back to studying...for an hour or so then ill go home and sleep/watch tv. i think im too sick to go to rupas bday dinner :(

i'm in a GREAT mood

and i just realized no one is here to read this because you guys are all enjoying a day off . . .

oh well, still in a good mood :) i went to my grandparent's lake house saturday night with edgar and dollop and it was super relaxing - i came back this morning in time for my meeting where eun presented the data i collected friday (i was here until about 12:40am by the way) and tim's (the boss who may or may not know who i am even though the lab only has 15 people) quote was "this looks fantastic!" everything looked exactly as it should look - which means if i can just do that 20 more times, our preliminary data should be useful! it also means i have to do it 20 more times . . . over the course of 5 days . . .

ok, fill me in on the festivities when you go back to work tomorrow!!

hes wonderful :)

it seems so random that he has been in my life for 3 years and i didnt notice till a year ago...i was missing out :)

rups, when you figure out which day next weekend you want to go out for your bday let me know...hell probably come with us for a bit.

i'm sorry nushie :(

i'm glad you have someone around to make you smile - i like him a little more with every story you tell!

my mom sent me a random picture that she had on her digital camera (she was cleaning out her memory stick so my dad could take it with him this weekend) its my cat and my old dog sleeping on the dog bed together and its presently the background of my computer and its making me smile when i look at it.

i need a break...

my dad is ok. he had a stress test and everything was normal. its just scary that now he is home alone.

my mom left last night. she is gone for 2 weeks.

i have the best boyfriend :) last night after my mom left i called him and was just walking around the neghborhood. i was ok but i guess didnt have the same "chirpyness in my voice" he siad hed come over at 8 or so ( it was 6) so i tried to study but my head was hurting from all the shots, so i stopped, just watched wallace and gromit. then he came over and said he wanted to go out. we NEVER do that on a week night esp when we both have a lot of work to do. i got dressed up, wore all new clothes :) and went to boom. this fun italian rest near the apt. on the walk back from dinner i asked him what the sudden desire to go out was and he was like studying can wait, your mom just left, you got 50 injections in your head..do i need anymore reasons :) he was totally right. it put the biggest smile on my face. which slowly went away cause when i was packing for the weekend (we are going to a wedding in NJ on sunday) and trying on clothes nothing looked right and my hair looked gross and i just started crying....im a lucky girl to have someone like him there for me. it was really lonely in the apt from 6-8 till he came over

i cant wait for our trip to FL coming up in march.

oh, i have to work on monday

in fact, i have to work way too much in the next two weeks. the RSV study is still going on, so i'll get samples from that on a regular basis if not everyday (depends on how many people they find with RSV infections) PLUS starting monday we are supposed to be working like crazy to get some other data to act as the foundation of a contract - the write up is due march 6th. luckily, its a group effort so i won't have to do every step so i won't be here forever every day, i'll just be damn busy the 8 or 9 (or 10) hours i'm here.

i'm doing a long day experiment today - which is totally pointless because its to decide which of two types of experiments we are going to use. one doesn't work and mine looks promising. the decision is supposed to be made today - there won't be results from this experiment until tonight when i finish it and i'm not spending my weekend analyzing - so they won't be ready until monday. plus, i was hoping to get started at 8 (which is when i got here) but since eun decided all of this yesterday, i didn't have time to talk to the nurse that draws our blood so she didn't have a donor lined up for 8am. so, i got the blood 15 minutes ago. it'll be ready to count cells in 30 minutes, ten minutes to set up the stimulation 6 hour stimulation . . . 2 and a half hours to stain - we are up to 7:30 now, assuming everything goes well and no one dumps anything new on me. then, it'll take me 3 or 4 hours to run the samples on the machine - yup, i'm looking at leaving work around 11.

stupid job.

hi guys

i'm sorry to hear about all that's been going on. meg, how are you? at least you know about the clotting disorder . . . .that's got to be better than not knowing. nush, is your dad ok? how long is your mom going to be in india for?

i'm exhausted on this rainy friday morning. . . can't wait for the weekend. megan, you don't have to work on monday, do you? do you have any plans for the weekend? i'm looking forward to a nice dinner at alta on monday for rupa's birthday :) wow, 26. crazy.

hope you all have a lovely day.

i have a clotting disorder

the only restrictions on my life are that i'm not supposed to be on birth control and i should be aware of any weird headaches or swelling in my legs. other than that, i should just make any future dr's aware of it should i get pregnant or have surgery or anything.

i just got an email from my boss that i may have a very very long day tomorrow.

no blogs today?

guess it's busy and crazy all around.. happy thursday! good luck :)

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Girls

where is my blog?

Girls

stupid coworkers

"thats your job" my ass!
eun and tim (tim is eun's boss) waited until last minute to deal with some samples to get preliminary data to write a contract proposal and now i'm getting sucked in! i showed up to the meeting on tuesday - a meeting where i have no real creative imput as i don't have enough experience, and i have no real say as everyone responds with yeah well we all have to do something. now i am going to have go to the follow up/final decision meeting on friday. at 11:30. so, i will have to come to work for this meeting, park in my far far parking lot to get here and have to either have the people at RGH drop off my samples (which may not be until 4pm or later) and at some point either go out to my car after 2 to move it closer or walk out to my lot when i'm finished (which if i don't get my samples until 4, may not be until 8 or 9 and which takes me past a less than populated, somewhat sketchy area). which actually i'm going to have to do today since i had to go to lab meeting this morning because it was biosafety stuff.
all this is only annoying because i went to confirm with the guy that's organizing the meeting and gen and courtney to see whether i really need to be there and i got a "that's your job, no sympathy here" really? and you can say we left together last night all you want - you also attended 6 hours of class during the day (aka not work time) and i was here at 8:45am to go to the stupid meeting and i will be here late this evening - i'm putting in my hours. i'm attempting to limit my unpaid useless trecks to and from my godforsaken lot while still doing what you say is required of me (not my boss, by the way - just gen) and then you give me attitude?! i came and ASKED whether i needed to be there - i didn't tell you i wasn't coming! this will be only my second meeting, and there have been like 5 - my attendance wasn't required at any of the others and you find it shocking that i wonder whether its required for this one?!?!

plus, i decided i really wanted coffee, even though i had the coffee place the hospital now has with a passion. i went down, ordered my coffee (which i think i was overcharged for, but i haven't confirmed) the woman yelled it over to the woman making the espresso who started to do something. i'm talking to gen and courtney while i wait for my order to be yelled out (there are no other people waiting) the girl who took my order sat down at the couches next to the coffee place and started playing on her cell phone. my coffee isn't out. more waiting. my coffee isn't out. the girl who was making it is now on her phone. i finally approach the counter again and a new girl comes up and is like what did you want? i'm like the coffee i already ordered and paid for . . . yeah, its already made, she just adds the whip cream and hands it to me - did you want whip cream? nope. she takes it back, scoops it off the top of the coffee puts the top back on and hands it to me. wait, what? so now i'm just all pissy. and do i get to leave anytime soon? nope. i have to run my samples in 2 hours and i have more samples scheduled to come today (i don't know when or how many because even though alot of it is scheduled, they never think about telling me these *minor* details.

DUDE! i'm a basically happy person! i was happy when i woke up this morning, edgar and i were joking around - it almost made me late because we chatted so long. how does being here suck it out of me?! this is why i liked coming in late, it limits my contact with my coworkers who can be so totally negative sometime that its hard to stay in a good mood.

is your dad ok?!

i haven't talked to my dr - my appointment is for 11am tomorrow. really, its probably going to be no big deal, just something to be aware of when looking at the list of side effects of any medication - i just hate having a dr callback . . .

and yeah - i don't know whats up with all this going to the dr bs when we are only in our 20s! a family friend was recently admitted to the hospital for unexplained leg issues and now they are pretty sure she has MS - she's only 2 or 3 years older than me! and she's a crazy person who went to princeton and then takes off to africa to do studies on wild zebras! and then everywhere i look there is stuff about MS - extreme makeover home edition was about a woman with MS this week and there is a study going on at U of R with MS treatments that i've heard advertised on the radio a couple of times . . . i don't want to hear about chronic conditions about any of my contemporaries until we are 50! i was really happy being that person who can check no for everything on a health survey - no allergies, no surgeries, no medications, no hospitalizations - and i'm the only one in my immediate family not permanently on some sort of daily drug - i really liked that!!!

stupid doctors.

doctor

did you talk to the doctor megan?? im really emotionally drained out with stories about doctors and sicknesses and all of that for people our age! imagine what its going to be like 20 years from now!

i dont know if i ever blogged about this but one day last week my dad fainted at work - almost on a new patient. its been pretty scary just cause no one knows why or what caused it. and my mom leaves for india on thursday....

i need a vacation from all this medical stuff :-/

vday plans

i think my plans consist of taking the dog for a long walk (we attempting an hour walk each day - we did 3 hours on saturday and an hour each on sunday and monday) i'll be at work probably until 8 or 9 and edgar is working tonight - so he won't get home until 9 or 10. plus, i have to be at work at 9am tomorrow sooo . . . it doesn't matter though because we've never really celebrated vday. the first year, we went out to dinner randomly a couple of days before which was a cross between our "one month anniversary" and vday but thats about it - i kind of like it that way. he had class this morning and then had to take his mom to an appointment (she had her gallbladder removed friday) but we ended up having enough time to go out for coffee between then and when i left for work . . . i guess that sort of counts as vday celebration :)

so, my day hasn't been the best today. but i'm still pretty happy - which makes me thing i'm doing a better job controlling my stress in general. i got a call while i was at the coffee house with edgar from my dr.'s office asking me to schedule another appointment. at my last appointment (also my first real appointment with a dr in a couple of years) i had a normal physical and everything was fine but she had my blood drawn for a blood test for clotting because it turns out that a weird genetic clotting disorder runs in my family. it is my impression that the only way you can determine for sure whether i have it is to run a genetic typing, but the dr just asked for some sort of clotting assay - which is probably all you need to determine whether it will effect me. she told me it would probably take about two weeks and she'd only call if something came back abnormal. well, she called so i'm a little nervous . . . but in all likelihood its probably something was weird, we should run another test. plus, its not really something that will stop my life. my cousin has it (the reason the rest of us found out about it) but it was because she was having headaches (little blood clots in the brain) she has been on birth control and has successfully had two kids and is working on a third so its obviously not stopping her. i think my mom is heterozygous (spelling?) for it and she's never had any problems - but my grandmother (who i don't think has ever been tested) had a storke when my mom was in college and then another one when i was a freshman - so thats not very fun. i'm mumbling, i realize but i'm a little nervous about it all and i don't feel like talking to people at work about it and i don't want to tell my mom until i talk to the dr because it will just make her nervous . . .

and then i got to work, thinking i had all the samples for the day (because that was what i was told) and would probably be out of here by 7. then i walked into a meeting where everyone was a little edgey, followed up by receiving a phone call that there was another sample coming . . . and there is a stupid woman using the centrifuge i usually use which is screwing up my pattern. ok, that one is pretty minor but its still annoying!

but today is tuesday . . . which means when i'm out of here by 9 (and i WILL be out of here by 9, goddamnit!) i can go home and watch house and play with dollop.

i hope i didn't bring down anyone's mood! i'm still happy - and i'm wearing bright red pants in honor of vday! I wasthinking about doing the vday cards this year around the lab but i never got around to getting them - and i thought it would be a little weird to give them to some of the lab members who i'm not that close to - and a little weird themselves . . .

happy valentines day

rups - i liked your blog :) thats why i love your party every year. i never thought of it like thanksgiving but its totally true!

i think this is the first year im excited to be in a couple on valentines day :) we had reservations at this new indian rest but then found out last night that it was a $70/person pre fix menu. No dinner is worth that amount of money for me...so we cancelled it. now we have reservations at amma but we might change that and do exactly what rupa wrote - out to dinner, say cute things, .... :)

dammit, rupa beat me to it!

i wanted to be the first one to wish you all a happy valentine's day this morning :) . on my walk to work this morning i was thinking of the 1st grade valentine's day cards that you always bought, megan, and how much fun we had signing and delivering them. ahh, the good ol' days.

nush, what are you and satyan doing tonight? and you and edgar, megan? did you girls already blog about that? work has been really busy, although i was very entertained reading yesterday's blog :) nush, you guys are so cute together! i guess i always figured you'd be the first one of us to get married. going to india with you girls sounds like fun, but i definitely can't do it for christmas and new years. i want to go to colombia again at the end of this year, hopefully for 3-4 weeks. every party has a pooper. . .

ok ladies, hope you all have a lovely day.

happy love day :)

i LOVE valentine's day... i never really liked it when i was in a couple b/c i felt like we did the same thing we did every night.. went to dinner.. said cute things to each other.. and then had some sex (kidding!)

but seriously.. i like to treat v day like thanksgiving only for people.. where you just think about all the love in your life and the people who give it...

so.. good morning.. and i love you all lots! thanks for making my days a lil brighter with this blog and my life brighter just by being in it!!

:)

i know weve been talking about this stuff waaaaay longer - thats why i wrote it anyway :)

we talked - i think rupa would agree that it wasnt very rationale when i tried to explain the conversation. when it came out of my mouth i realized most of it would only make sense to me and him :) anyway we talked about proposal soon..but no specific date. he sort of hinted that hed rather propose and then go together to buy a ring. at first i thought i didnt like the idea but then i realized that its pretty cute that he wants to go with me so i can pick out something myself..anyway our parents havent met yet - he doesnt think its important pre proposal but i kind of do...so if i had to guess id guess "anusha day" :) which is a random day in march last year that we took off to hang out in the city. march 31 - we are taking the day off again this year. or my bday..but i also dont want to speculate and want to just have fun.

with regards to registering we arent anywhere near that!! we talked about wedding dates but very "who the heck knows" and even pushed it to 08...but then i said that was too late and if we knew why wait that long...

that being said, itd probably be more fun to register in rochester or CT and NOT NY. :)

i'll go to india!!!

i love the "definitely in ct (i think . . .)"

boys are so weird about that whole "privacy" thing - we've been telling each other this kind of stuff longer than they have been around :)

and next year is "that soon" have you guys explicitly discussed things? proposing? rings? will he surprise you or is it all very rational talked about type thing? i mean, tomorrow is vday . . . and then your anniversary (or was that last week? i remember they were two tuesdays in a row) are these possible memorable moments for him to drop to one knee?

do you have to take him with you to register? because if you don't, i would TOTALLY plan a trip to NYC for a weekend to go to stores and register!!!

goa

i will definitely be there this winter for xmas and new years.. well xmas in mumbai and new years in goa. i would LOVE to shop!!!!

now i'm just waiting for megan's reactions to nush's blog...

HAHAHAHA

first of all if he saw everything i wrote in the blog hed prob tell me to learn to be more private :) and to wait for things to actually happen before i say anything!!!

but...yes really :) and prob not that soon...next year? the year after? not sure...and definitely in ct (i think...) well i guess its safer to say definitely not India...

but we can still go to india :) maybe this winter?? new years in goa?? and we can go shopping together! it would be so fun!!

i just had lunch with rupa. totally last minute and very fun :)

im in such a good mood...too bad after work i have to go home and study :(

oh my god...

can we please all go to india? how amazing would that be? i am saying that totally unrelated to anusha's future love plans :) but we can do it with any excuse...

really?

not really? like you'd marry him, just really? should i be shopping for wedding clothes? are we that soon? is there anything to wait for?

just checking.

so do you have the wedding in connecticut? NY? INDIA?!?!

wow :)

my first reaction to that blog was.. wow i have to buy more indian outfits to wear to nush's wedding.. my second reaction was.. NUSH'S WEDDING!!! AHHHH!!!

:)

i love that you know that you know :) and i love weddings.. and i can't believe i'm typing this.

nice pics

i like the one with the random red sign in it. i love dark/black/white scenes with one thing in color...

rupas party was awesome :) i had the best weekend. it started with kneading gnochi for almost an hour :) and then drinking too much...sat and sun were perfect. just me and satyan - no other people, no parties, nothing. we studied most of the time but it was fun - it was fun to look up from my books and have him there next to me. and we'd take breaks to eat and talk and watch movies. it was great.

we had lots of long talks of when next steps happen...it was such a nice conversation - no pressure no issues but basically the conclusion was whenever - soon not soon anything...i just smiled at him and said its just a fun nice feeling to know that you know....

snow!

mostly b/c i didn't have to shovel it or drive through it.. i was in LOVE with the snow that we had yesterday. the most time i spent in it was just me taking pictures.. and here they are!!

red drinks

i'm a little jealous :) i love non-traditional vday celebrations (see senior year's rejection game on vday, where i picked up my townie)

i met up with my dad this morning and got a new phone - my old one's speaker (maybe?) died, i could no longer hear the other person unless i had my headset on. then we hung out for a while and went shopping for my mom for vday and her birthday (dad got her a couple bath and body works things, a dvd and raspberry and orange truffles from lindt) a random story he told me was while at a place in ogdensburg, they discovered a new drink. well, not new . . . but a variation. my new favorite drink is a mojito and i got my mom to try one last time she came to rochester with my dad. anyway, i guess they are now serving pomegranate mojitos at a bar/restaurant in ogdensburg! this is the same place that has a bass sign out front but doesn't actually have bass there! its just weird to hear about any drink beyond, well, beer being served in ogdensburg . . . my dad couldn't convince my mom to try it. i just thought of it with the red food and drinking . . . it could be a red drink!

hello

same old here...i think i might have to leave your party early tonight rups - my parents want to come for an anniversary/vday dinner...and with our family that doesnt mean a romantic just parents thing - they watn satyan and i to come also...so we might meet them at amma at 9 - it hasnt been finalized yet though - we shall see. they were supposed to come tomorow but with the weather want to come earlier...

hi

me stresssssed about work.. am excited for food and drink tonight...

megan, i'm having my 2nd annual vday girls night tonight.. with red food and drink and drink and drink... yay.

feb

im just waiting till june 4th...

although satyan and i have decided no studying the next two tuesdays - we are just going to go out to nice dinners and spend time together. for v day we are going to an indian rest he has been wanting to try (ada) i think its new but im not sure..we may go see broke back mountain. and the week after is our 1 year anniversary - i made a reservation at la esquina some yuppy snobby mexican place. they only take reservations, no walk ins, and they are totally booked..anyway i got a reservation for that night.

rups - what are we doing for your bday? are you here the long weekend? want to go out to dinner monday night?

thursday morning

i'm having a 12 hour day today. and so far - not great. i'm thawing cells - expecting 22 million cells back, at last count i had 13.5 million. WAY too little . . . i'm recounting, hopefully some (about 10 million) will magically appear. hopefully.

i called my landlord - everything is fine. the husband had the check but forgot to write it down so the wife didn't realize he'd already taken care of it.

as for vday plans - none. sometime soon he and i are supposed to go to my grandparent's lake house and spend the weekend there but since he hasn't chosen a weekend and told work he needs it off, i'm not sure when that will be. his mom is having her gallbladder removed tomorrow, so i'm guessing its going to be a little while . . .

how about everyone else? any fun february plans?

so sweet

very sweet :)

what are your vday plans with your boy?

i think my landlord is going nuts

i got a voicemail from her this morning reminding me that she hadn't received my rent this month . . . then i went online to check my account because i KNOW i wrote and put in their mailbox last week a check . . . and yup, there it was, debited from my account - written on 2/1, cashed on 2/3! so now i have to call her back and say umm . . . not only did i write you a check, you've cashed it already . . . .

in other news, edgar and i got in a deep conversation last night - started randomly and ended talking about deepseated insecurities (not relating to our relationship, just in general) so on his way home from class this morning, he stopped at a florist shop and bought me a rose :) and then when he got home, he made me breakfast :) :) i'm crazy about him . ..

hi

me around but busy... anyone got stories?

where is everyone?

yay

that's very exciting that you'll be travelling :) i'm happy that your job is working out well...

i'm obsessing over this john mayer song "comfortable"...

i love when i listen to music on random on my ipod b/c i rediscover things. although the words don't do the song justice... here they are..

I just remembered that time at the market
Snuck up behind me and jumped on my shopping cart
And rolled down aisle five
You looked behind you to smile back at me
Crashed into a rack full of magazines
They asked us if we could leave

I can’t remember what went wrong last september
Though I’m sure you’d remind me if you had to

Our love was comfortable and so broken in

I sleep with this new girl I’m still getting used to
My friends all approve,
Say she’s gonna be good for you
They throw me high fives
She says the Bible is all that she reads
And prefers that I not use profanity
Your mouth was so dirty

Life of the party and she swears that she’s artsy
But you could distinguish miles from coltrane

Our love was comfortable and so broken in
She’s perfect
So flawless
Or so they say

She thinks I can’t see the smile that she’s faking
And poses for pictures that aren’t being taken
I loved you
Grey sweatpants
No makeup
So perfect

Our love was comfortable and so broken in
She’s perfect
So flawless
I’m not impressed
I want you back

updates

youll have to read the blog for detailed updates!!

but a quick summary - im in full studying mode. im taking a weekly class this time..its working out well. the hair situation isnt getting better...but my spirits are still up and i try not to think about it too much...easier said than done but somehow ive been able to do it...work wise i now report to brian - things are MUCH better. and im now the "asian analyst" for the group :) which means if i do my job right and if i get up to speed on asian markets i may be making trips out there :) tokyo is first on the list followed soon by india :)

and netflix updates - i think ive seen the two best movies in a row - cold mountain and now im watching in her shoes. does anyone have the cold mountain book? also rupa - on friday can i borrow the book that has the upside down dog on it? i read for the 30 min that im at the gym everyday and ive been wanting to read that...

hello?

updates updates... tell me!! i want to know what's going on.

hi!

i am back at work... my trip was really good. very busy but very useful for my project.. i also spent a lot of time with my friends in bombay at night. it wasn't like last time.. where we'd drink all night every night, but the weekends i did do that. (during the week i stayed in a hotel so i wouldn't get distracted and could get work done).

there are pics from my trip (of course!!) which you can see here if you want.

i still have to catch up on blog reading but how is everyone doing here? what's new gossip?

welcome back rupa!

how was the trip?? are you back at work?

ok :)

the shirt and necklace are cute :) i think im going to wear it for v day dinner...

haven't sent it yet

. . . and now its growing. i'm glad you picked out a shirt you like and a necklace :)

hi megan :)

rupas in india, i think julie is in FL, and i was in ct yesterday. just got back.

when i was there i went to target to exchange the sheets - but we were shopping so much in the jewelry and clothing isle that i never made it to the bedding...so your new gift to me in exchange for the sheet is a black tank top type thing and a really cool necklace :) did you say you sent somethign else? i thought i read that in the blog but nothing has come to work...last time i ordered something from amazon it got lost in our mail room...so just checking :)

im exhausted from all this travel to ct. luckily for me allen is really understanding and my parents are so close....satyan gets back tonight from FL so im looking forward to that. tomorrow we are going on this manhattan movie/tv tour similar to the sex and the city one we did for julies bday...im excited :) its his early valentines day gift for me. i think im going to buy him an ipod arm band to work out and a gift certificate to starbucks - he buys them for me and other people all the time but no one every buys him one!

where is everyone?

helloooo . . . . nyc . . . . anyone out there?