the boy news

why can't anyone know? because you aren't sure it will go anywhere and don't want to tell people its starting just to have to explain it didn't? or because your family can't know? or 'cause its bad to be hooking up with any boy? or because your friends wouldn't approve?

i don't blame you for keeping a fledgling romance private until its grown a bit - just wondering why :)

its alot easier to be excited about rupa moving to india and being virtually unreachable (jet blue doesn't do commuter flights to india, does it? ;) ) when you/she sounds so freaking excited about it herself :) :) :)

:)

rupa that was the best thing to see this morning :) i love reading about how happy this all makes you.

have a good trip back! hopefully we can get together for lunch in the next two weeks...

Hi!

Hello ladies,
I'm still in India. A bit exhausted from my trip and ready to come back and live it up in New York for a while. I'm flying out of here tonight and will be back in NY saturday morning.

The trip has been amazing. I'm definitely ready to move here. I think my life will be insanely busy once I'm here but I'm excited for it.

On to the FUN details of my trip, the boy. Oh man, I'm so smitten with boy. We hung out with everyone the first night I was in bombay and when I finally got him alone, we talked about us, how much I liked him, etc. It was a bit like high school. We talked abt us and then were fairly nervous. It took another night to break the ice and get over his nervousness but he finally ended up spending the last few nights with me at my hotel :). None of our friends there can know this is going on so hed basically sneak out after everyone went to bed. SO high school :)

I like him a lot. Well see what happens when I'm local. :)

hi rupa!

how was the trip?? is everything finalized for an end of may move?

tonight im just studying. i couldnt sleep last night at all im so tired. i heard julie and jackie come home and then was awake for a while. i feel like i fell asleep at 615 when my alarm went off at 630...

i got my nails done this morning since the reception is this weekend. 500 people! im really excited now :) my parents have done such a good job planning all of this i cant wait to enjoy it.

jules - i called the apt company but we keep playing phone tag...

NIH came

and i was right to be scared. its usually a 20-something sweet southern woman who is totally easy.

instead, i got a guy my parents age who clearly has been in science his whole life (aka totally socially wrong) it started off HORRIBLE - totally couldn't answer their first couple of questions - but it turns out thats just because they didn't know the equipment we have :) which made it a lot easier once i took them to the freezer. he warmed up to me by the end and i showed him a picture of my dog (it was my computer background and he was checking out my dock - see previous comment about socially wrong) she was really nice (the woman that was with him) but she talked less and had a wicked accent so when she asked questions i didn't know the answer to, it generally started out with i didn't understand the question because it was about acroynms i had never heard before and i thought i just wasn't getting what she was saying!

but its over. i have some stuff i need to take care of and email to them, but i have lunch plans with edgar and just excel BS to do for the rest of the day. and i'm going to hang out with jess tonight! oh, this day is getting better already :)

eek

good luck, megan! i was all excited because rupa was supposed to be back today, but i just got an email from her saying she won't be back 'til tomorrow night :(

i can't wait to see you, rupa! do you have any plans for this weekend? let's hang out . . .

NIH scares me

i have a person from the NIH coming to visit me any minute now . . . well, she's supposed to come at 8:30 but last time we had an arrangement like that, she came half an hour early because she thought i'd be hard to find. which means this time i needed to be extra extra early since i hadn't finished making everything she might want to look at extra neat. well, i still haven't . . . been hopefully i've done enough. i'm def scared . . . last time it was just about one study that Dee had taken over the organization of so our book was over the top anal. This time, it was just me and the running of the study (not just me) was much more random (i got bloods whenever they found a sick person instead of scheduled appointments) and OBVIOUSLY i find super detailed recording of everything to be tedious so i put it off and then i'm not 100% sure whether i have 3 vials (like my chart says) or 4 vials (like i filled into the freezer inventory)


i'm screwed.

wow, those beds are usually pretty tiny

you and your mom are going to be getting pretty cozy! and thanks for clarifying the sleeping arrangements -- that was definitely the first question that popped into my mind :)

cruises are fun. . .i'm jealous! did you get a chance to call the management company today to ask about our lease?

i'm still so tired today. i can't wait for the weekend so i can just sleep in. jackie's mom will be in town, which is great for me because it means that jackie probably won't want to party, which means that i won't be tempted to go out and party, either. my big plan for the weekend is hanging out with julia. if the weather is nice i want to take her to central park and rent the little rowboats that anusha was talking about the other day.

i did ask about them!

ill have to check that out next time i go to ct...i havent had those in forever. and i still think of george whenever i have guac :)

i had lunch with satyan and some other fund of funds people. its so fun to see him randomly in the middle of the day. and esp when its for work and i dont feel guilty not being in the office.

its funny though because most people are talking about how people in the industry are sketchy, they cant find anyone loyal, nice, etc. and he and i just look at each other without saying anything - as if we are proof that what they are saying isnt true. its such a nice feeling :)

and we are going on a cruise in august with my family!! 4 day cruise to halifax in canada. it leaves from NY. it is totally perfect. im really excited. first family trip - mom, dad, sashank, kerry, me and satyan...i know youll all want to know sleeping arrangements so here it is - satyan basically gets his own cabin, and ill sleep in the same twin bed as my mom :) and the extra bed in his room will just be empty....

grocery thoughts

guess what i noticed in the dairy section the other day? farmers cheese! now why couldn't we find that when george was making guac for us . . .
also - just as random - i checked the freezer section for vanilla-sicles the other day (anusha - you asked about them) they do sell a version here, in a variety pack though by a company that for the life of me i can't think of right now - the one with the bright yellow box and there symbol is like two different colored oblong shape with dots around it i think. maybe if a certain brownie is extraspecially good, the next time she comes to rochester there will be some in the freezer waiting ;)

hello

that's so sad about edgar's dog. it's scary how much we end up caring about our pets. . .

i got back from miami this morning and am exhausted. i had an amazing trip. i spent lots of time with my family during the day and partied with my friends all night. which, of course, means that i got absolutely no sleep. it feels like it keeps getting harder and harder to come back to new york after a weekend in miami. . .i'm going back with jackie for memorial day weekend and we're spending a couple of days partying at the keys with a bunch of friends, so i'm really looking forward to that. just a few more weeks. . .

sorry, i can't write much because i still have tons of email to catch up on and i need to leave in about an hour for my basketball game.

oh yeah, one last thing: i wrote to ekta, she wrote back, and i've completely forgotten about it. i'm glad i wrote to her, just because it let me put the whole thing out of my mind. i'll copy and paste the emails here:

-----Original Message-----
From: Ekta Desai [mailto:ekta.desai@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:04 AM
To: Jaramillo, Juliana
Subject: Re: hi!

hey Jules,
i just got this email - i left work yday around 2pm, and haven't really had a chance to check email until now. i totally understand not being able to meet up - i'm sure you have a million things to do!

i'm really sorry about last weekend and i'm glad you told me. i know i didn't tell you until saturday and that was really inconsiderate. so i apologize - it was wrong and inconvenient. i don't want to make excuses, but i do want to tell you that i was trying to catch a bus on saturday for the second night of the party (even though it was salsa dancing which we know i can't do!).

gah - i have an interview today, so i better get up and at 'em. but have a great trip - safe travels. take lots of pictures of your craziness in miami!

hopefully i'll see you soon :)

always, ekta

- Hide quoted text -




On 4/20/06, Jaramillo, Juliana wrote:

hi ek,

sorry, i don't think i'll be able to meet up tonight. i have a ton of things i need to do before my trip tomorrow.

also, there's something that's been on my mind the past few days . . .i understand that you had things to do and couldn't make it here for my birthday and that's totally cool, but i really wish you would have given me some notice, just out of courtesy. i was looking forward to seeing you and i was counting on you being here, figuring out sleeping arrangements and all, and then i just felt like you pretty much avoided me and ignored my emails and my phone calls until saturday afternoon. it's cool, i'm not mad or anything. . . like i said, i just wish i would have known.

anyway, have fun celebrating calluzzo's birthday this weekend. i guess we'll catch each other the next time you're in town.

love,
jules

ahh megan i now see your blogs...

thats really sad about edgars dog :( i cant imagine what the must feel like :( how long has he had the dog? how is the other dog handling it? i remember you used to always say that both your dogs are so attached to each other that the other wouldnt know what to do with themselves if one died...

jules? megan? where have you been

jules, how was FL? did ekta write back? see you tonight after my class..

megan - did edgars bday pass? what did you do? say happy bday from me..

things here are same old. my class was really good, busy but i learned a lot. friday im going home for sashanks reception. im really excited. its gonna be a huge fun party :)

i wrote a big long blog

last week.
and it never showed up :(
and now no one has blogged since then! i know everyone took a long weekend - but dude, its tuesday! you've all got to be back by now!!!

friday

ok, i know i'm talking to only cyberspace right now, that everyone is somewhere else - but i'm putting it out there anyway :)

yesterday was great and horrible - i planned on taking the morning off since i worked early and late wednesday and would be doing it again on friday. so, i went to edgar's house where he's working on a fountain in his back yard. dollop ran around, i read sitting outside and edgar worked - with occasional help from me when he needed the extra hands. it was lovely.

the bad part - edgar's parents have two dogs. the older of the two stopped moving and eating tuesday. they are pretty low maintence on their pets - they don't have a regular vet, i don't know the last time the dogs got vaccinations, basically i think they are a little too old school, its a thing you don't need to spend lots of money to take it to a "doctor" the older dog (rusty) 1. didn't get better and 2. hadn't died. by wednesday, it was killing edgar. occasionally, he'd whine and edgar would sit with him and he'd quiet down but his breathing was labored. edgar didn't want to go to the vet i go to here because they suck and he didn't want to feel railroaded into a treatment that would only keep an already old dog going for a couple more months, but he still wanted to make sure he was doing what was good for rusty. so, i made an appointment with the vet i had volunteered with. so, at 4 we packed up rusty and drove out there (its about an hour away) it was horrible, the dog started crying half way there (i was sitting in the backseat with him) and his breathing was so fast - he clearly wasn't getting oxygen the way he should. we got to the vet, i talked to dr. ottosen and he checked out the dog. without more tests he couldn't be positive about what was causing the metabolic shut down, but it boiled down to the best scenario would be a ruptured spleen that could be operated on. other options were other internal ruptures or just liver or kidneys shutting down. so, edgar had him put to sleep. there was crying (both edgar and i) but we took the dog home and he's now buried in the backyard next to the fountain edgar's building and edgar got a flowering tree to plant over the grave. so - yesterday was a little tough at the end.

as for the ekta thing - when edgar and i were talking about the weekend, i said you know - i'm kind of glad ekta didn't go because then i would have probably gone out saturday night even though i didn't feel well and it could have ruined an otherwise great sunday of walking around and talking with evelyn and jules. he things its horrible that i would bend over backwards (go out when i didn't want to) for someone who is so much not a friend that she doesn't even show up to see me (he's also heard ekta stories and is thorougly not impressed) in fact, the whole concept of maintaining relationships and rearranging my life - no matter how insignificantly - for someone that isn't super close is one of the things he would change about me. i was sitting in my butterfly chair (the blue one i had in 254 sophomore year) and he noticed how ripped it was - i told him how concetta had borrowed it and returned it without saying a word to me about the fact it was ripped and he rolled his eyes when he found out i still hung out with her without saying anything.

so, while i recognize that its totally positive to have that confrontation, actually quite healthy - i still can't bring myself to do it the bulk of the time. kudos to you for sending that email and i'd love to hear the response!

ok, i emailed her

can't wait to see her reply. . .thanks for the advice, nush. i guess i just needed an extra little nudge.

eyebrows, shots, and 3 days of CFA class. . . sounds like you have your hands full for the next few days. at least your mom is here and it's gorgeous out :)

ok, back to writing to professors. it's so hard to motivate myself to work hard when it's 75 degrees (and not humid) out!

i miss rupa. and megan.

say something

i think what jackie suggested is good to say - at least in the light of tell her you had been thinking about sleeping arrangements etc and if she wasnt coming she should have told you...

and i like the have fun celebrating calluzzos party jab right at the end :) subtle and out there at the same time. thenagain it think confrontation is better than letting it brew...

im on my way out now. my mom is here - going to get my eye brows redone since a lot more of the hair fell out, then shots at 430 :( tomorrow, sat, and sun i have my cfa class from 8-5...

enjoy miami!! i cant wait to see the gift when you get home tonight :)

and after the confrontation, dont let ekta get to you :) it isnt worth it...it isnt worth it to let anyone get to you. life is too short to miss the people who are there...i know it sounds cheesy but i think its true

hello ladies

just one more day and i'll be in miami! i can't wait to see my parents. they're going to colombia from the beginning of june until january, so i only get to see them this weekend and memorial day weekend. i don't know how i'm going to deal with not being able to see them for 6 months!

anyway, i got an email from ekta on monday (after she pretty much ignored 2 emails and a phone call from me last week and didn't call to tell me she wasn't coming for my birthday until saturday afternoon) apologizing for not being able to make it and wishing me a happy birthday. oh yeah, and telling me that she would be in nyc this coming weekend so she hoped we'd be able to meet up. my first thought when i got the email was, "oh, too bad i won't be able to meet up with her because i'll be in miami." and then it hit me -- this weekend is calluzzo's birthday. coincidence? none of this would bother me if she wouldn't have avoided me last week. she could have just let me know in advance that she wasn't coming for my birthday, right? that's common courtesy, isn't it? oh well. . . i just had to vent. i know it's not important enough to let it bother me, but it's something that i haven't been able to get out of my mind. jackie thinks i should call ekta out on it (just say something like, "hey, not cool that you didn't tell me you wouldn't be able to come for my birthday. it would have been nice to know beforehand so i wouldn't have been expecting you. i won't be around this weekend but have fun celebrating calluzzo's birthday). she thinks i let things slide too much and i'm not confrontational enough and that i always make excuses for people (like, i didn't go to ekta's birthday so i shouldn't be bothered that she didn't come to mine). but, i don't know if it's worth it. i know ekta and i haven't been super close the past couple of years and i really don't expect a lot from her. if one of my real friends (like you guys or evelyn or mari) made me feel like this, i'd definitely say something. ok, i'm babbling and i need to get some work done. jackie and i are going to buy my birthday present after work today :)

which reminds me, i should schedule my massage for when i return from miami. . .

how's everyone doing?

still not sure...

they havent set a date yet but im starting to think it will be next year which means I probably wont get to go. Once I figure that out (and figure out when my brother has vacation and we can go on a family trip) then ill be ready to book flights to vegas! bryan told me yesterday that he and most of the delts class is going. it should be a lot of fun :) i will keep you posted...

6 more weeks left then im a free bird...

but when is your cousin's wedding?

the rest of the afternoon was really nice - it was another beautiful day to walk around the city. seeing chirag was kind of weird . . . i feel like there is nothing overlapping in our lives any more so i had no idea what to talk to him about - only that i probably shouldn't ask about carrie and i wasn't sure that i cared all that much about his job.

my flight was fine - we spent an extra 30 to 40 minutes taxi-ing on the run way, waiting for our turn in line to take off - but the tv's were on, so it wasn't THAT bad. i need to remember to leave a little bit earlier when i take the train to the airport, though :) luckily the gate i fly out of is right next to the security check because they were calling pre-boarding for my flight as i was putting my shoes back on!

rupa, whenever you get a chance to actually read this, i hope you are having a great time in india!

good morning

good morning girls. megan I hope you had a nice day sunday and a good flight back. I got back like an hour after you left. philly was great. its so weird to be hosted at sashank and kerrysh ouse. it feels so grown up.

rups - im coming to india this fall! if just with my mom in october, and if i can coordinate with my mom, satyan, and his parents then either oct or dec...for at least 10 days. a few days with you and hopefully you can come wherever i will be (madras, bangalore, etc) for part of my trip too!

not feeling so hot today :(

and i definitely don't want to get sick right before the weekend! this sucks :( hopefully i can get out of work a little early and go home and sleep it off. . .

meg, i'll be at home waiting for you, too! call when you're in the cab.

megan i cant wait to see you!!

ill be waiting at home (probably asleep, so call when you are in the cab!)

Girls

you should say sullivan between spring and broome.. sometimes they are not quite sure of how the # system works...

i'm getting in late

so i thought i would just take a cab. i'm not going to want to deal with the subway at 11:15 at night . . .

so - 63 sullivan . . . is there anything else i need to tell the cab driver to get me there?

haha

you can hang out with me :) im not going to the club. but ill probably just go to bed since I need to study most of the day on Saturday.

i cant wait to see you! I assume you are taking the subway or a cab to our apt thurs night when you get in?

i'm scared of quo

seriously - maybe i should just preparty and then stay in the apartment by myself :) even the bad reviews commented on the couture/trendy nature of the femail clientele!

have you guys been there?

yeah!

jules - your plan sounds great for friday :) this morning i wrote and then deleted a blog about what kind of places we are going to to figure out what i need to pack because i thought monday seemed to early to ask - that it should be delayed until tuesday or wednesday . . . but i'm finding that when i look outside and see sunshine, all i'm thinking about it i hope it stays sunny for this weekend! and when i think about my to do list for today, i think about whether i need to do laundry tonight - which all depends on what i want to pack for this weekend. and i just scheduled time to run samples on thursday - and i scheduled it extra early so that i'll be out of here on time so i'm not rushed for my flight.

apparently, no matter what i do i'm going to have a bit of a one track mind this week :)

this week

this week is going to be great. Satyan is taking his GMAT now so tonight we are going to just hang out and relax. I havent spent more than an hour with him in over 2 weeks and its driving me nuts!! plus allen is out all week so I should have time to get some stuff done.

im in for lunch on friday in midtown...

yay! same here :)

the first thing i did this morning was check the weather forcast for this weekend. i can't wait! thank God this is goign to be a 4-day work week for me, i don't think i would have been able to handle and extra day.

megan, ekta's not coming until saturday afternoon, so it'll just be me and you all day friday! i want to sleep in, get a mani/pedi, maybe go to a museum and meet anusha and rupa for lunch? oh, and maybe do some shopping. i want to buy something new to wear saturday night.

i wish we could just skip ahead to thursday night already. . .

although the week has barely started

i'm already totally looking forward to this weekend :)
i just checked the weather for nyc - it said highs of 64 all three days with lows of 51 - sunny everyday but saturday when there is a chance of scattered thunderstorms.

YEAH!

thats awesome :)

ill be there next year to visit when my cousin gets married :)

wow.

my life

hi! so i have been wanting to blog for the last few days (at what julie hinted at) but i have been so swamped and also so unsure about what exactly is going on that i haven't. have some time now but what exactly is gonna happen is still up in the air.

here's what i know. i'm moving to india. for about two years, maybe three, maybe one. i will be working for the same company that i'm working for now, helping lou (who is another senior person at the firm, the parallel and best friend of my boss) build out businesses in india.

i've been wanting to do this on a personal level for a long time.. not move there for good (which i am definitely not doing) but just live there for a few years when i'm in my twenties.. before i have a husband or kids (or job i can't leave) keeping me here to enjoy the country that i love so much for more than just a few weeks a year.. and to also be close enough to my relatives (ESPECIALLY my grandparents to really get to know them instead of just the occasional phone call or whatever). i always thought that it would be a transition for me between jobs, in that i would have to leave my old job, do some kind of local job there, and then move back here to something new. but i really do LOVE the company that we work for... and i'm really excited that i get to stay with them and live there at the same time.

what i don't know.. is exactly WHERE i'd be living and WHEN i'd leave. this is the part where excitement turns to nerves. one business that we are building, which is one that i've worked on since january, will be based in delhi, at least in the short term. which means that although i will get to mumbai in less than a year, it could be as much as 8 months that i live in the delhi area before moving. (mumbai is where my family is.. and the reason why i love india so much).

when i'm leaving.. it will definitely be before the end of the summer. it could be as early as the end of may. if i end up working w this one new business that i've worked on before, the guy running it will start on june 1st, and i will likely need to be there when he starts. craziness.

that's all i know so far... will update you as i hear things.. i am nervous and scared about what my life will be like.. and what i'm leaving behind here.. and if it will be the same when i get back. but i also feel SO excited and SO ready for this. i'm ready to do something adventurous and a lil unknown where i am alone in a big city and have to find my way. if anything i think living in delhi where i know NO ONE will be good for that.

you also MUST visit me (and you have a long two year window to do so).

me too!

Girls

i woke up at 9:00 when i heard you jump in the shower! i guess i turned my alarm off at 6:30 without realizing it. the worst part is that i woke up frightened and still super sleepy and i've been in a bad mood all morning. and the snow outside isn't helping. what's going on ??

megan, is it snowing in rochester?

have fun at home, nush. tell your mom i say happy birthdday!

rupa rupa, don't you have something to blog about?

overslept

Nyquil knocked me out!! I didnt get up till 9 am, didnt get to work till 945...
oh well :)

im leaving around 445 to go to grand central, have coffee with satyan - i havent seen him since sat it feels so weird!! then going to CT for my apt/moms bday...busy busy day...

prob just the two of us

edgar said no, and satyan has to do stuff with me the two weekends prior (Tejal's wedding and then Ravi Uncles 50th bday party) so he might not come, but I told him the invitation was open...same for you rupa - if you feel like flying back from India, you have a place to stay :)

jules you get to go home in 2 weeks right? hopefully youll get lots of time with your mom then..

im going home tomorrow night. i have an apt in CT on thurs which also "conveniently" happens to be my moms bday. wed night we are going out for pizza in new haven when i get to the train station and thurs we will just hang out together all day.

soo busy till then....the nyquil still hasnt worn off :)

the 'burbs

rochester is practically all suburbs! and to make it more enticing - one of the malls now not only has a Coach store, Brookstone, and a Mac store - it now also has a Lindt chocolate shop and an aldo!

come on - i'll pick you up at the airport . . . :)

awesome!

that's so exciting about vegas! is it just the two of you? are you guys leaving the husbands at home? i definitely can't go -- it's jackie's birthday weekend, so i need to do whatever she wants.

nush, i hope you feel better. rupa, it sounds like you had a loveley weekend. this weekend really made me miss my mom. jackie and i went to the heat/nets game sunday night in new jersey, so we took a zipcar all day and went to short hills mall all afternoon before the game. jackie was shopping for a dress for her sister's wedding, and it seemed like wherever we turned all i could see was high school girls with their moms shopping for prom dresses. i miss that, just going to the mall with my mom. aside from feeling sad about that, i had a very nice day. i really miss being in the suburs and walking around a real mall and driving. unfortunately the heat lost the game, but oh well. this coming weekend i want to lay low since i know we're going to be partying like rockstars the weekend of my birthday. oooh, which reminds me, i need to finish my taxes . . .

vegas :)

megan and i are going! im excited :) rupa, we have room for you if you are in the country, jules if you change your mind its not that expensive! 120/night.

swamped

sorry ladies.. it's been a crazy day.

my wknd was nice.. i was in town for the first time in forever.. i stayed in friday and hung out with my cousin moush.. we went to a local really good italian place and ate sorbet on my couch.

saturday i had brunch w nush and jules... hung out with my parents (who randomly came into the city for their own date weekend.. dinner and a movie :) ) and then hung out with jonathan over wine and tapas at night and met up with jules for good drinks :)

ok that made no grammatical sense.. but you understand the point.. which is that food is the center of my universe. my parents stayed till yesterday evening.. i hung out with them.. wrote a lot.. went to the park. it was relaxing.. quiet.. introspective. exactly what i wanted.

i'll try and write more later and read more.. which i haven't done in a while. i miss you guys and i miss this blog. can't wait for 4-of-us time :) yay for good friday. i'll try and take it off too (or at least lunch and after)

happy monday

how was everyone's weekends?

best weekend

i was out on friday and just hung out in the city with satyan all day. i love days like that when its just me and him and without any real agenda. saturday i had brunch with satyans friends which was also great. i love getting together with them. its nice that i feel like they are my friends and not just his friends anymore. they are such fun people to hang out with. then i accompnanied julie jackie and rupa while they ate brunch. i felt bad that i wasnt eating but the waiter was cool about it so it didnt matter.

yesterday was blah. i was home alone all day just studying. i thought id see satyan at night but he studied till like 10 and then i wanted to go to bed...and i woke up this morning with the worst sore throat so im going to quarntine myself from hanging out with him so he doesnt get sick before his test next week...

thats all from me :) as for next weekend, ill probably just hang out for bits and pieces during the day and not join in on the drunken festivities at night...