Budgets.

Oh!  Now I get it!  The name of the blog is s490.  And our office number was s490!  It all makes sense. 

:)  Yes, I really hadn't made the connection earlier.

So, what would cause me to decide to post?  The realization that weddings are ridiculously expensive, and a little bit of buyer's remorse.  I decided to go with this absolutely wonderfull, but extremely expensive, photographer for my wedding.  The thing is, I didn't realize until today how much I'm going to have to give up to have her.  There won't be nearly as many pretty little details for her to photograph now.  I'm sure there will be plenty of nice stuff, and the bridesmaids are going to look beautifull :)  but I might have to drop my lovely chair covers and/or my damask overlays, or drastically reduce the flowers for the reception, or something like that.  We'll see...  I think I'm going to try to not spend too much for a couple of months.  That might make me feel better.  Plus I still haven't gotten a paycheck, or my sign-on bonus.  I'm sure I will feel *much* better once I get those.

The other wierd money issue that comes with getting married - a sense of responsibility to someone else!  All of a sudden I've started thinking about Susheem when I'm going to spend my money, since the money would otherwise become partly his next summer.  I think I will get over this, but I'm not completely sure...

I need to make a normal budget for myself.

 

Devin, it is good to hear from you and about Boston (although I think you may be here this week and I will have to look for you). anyhow, driving in Italy is exactly the same (I was just glad that i didn't have to do it) so I feel for you.

Meinwhile I have learned to lay tile. Yes, tileing was just one of the things that I got to do this past weekend. We went to Utah to see Chris' family and to help work on his Brother's house. I'll tell you all about it later, but it was quite the project.

Anyhow, here I am in S490 alone, but I am hoping that you and Nikki might stop by?

HiHi!

I think we can give up on the dream of having devin@google.com type email addresses. Oh well. :)

Hi! I have moved into my wonderful new (old old) apartment. I hope I haven't upset the managers by asking that it be cleaned to the standards I am used to (California standards). I am starting to think people just don't do that here. But I really don't want to have to clean the blinds and the outsides of the windows myself. And I am wierd enough that I will end up doing it myself if they don't have it done.

Yup. Pretty wierd.

I can't believe how different Boston is from the Bay Area. I feel like I am in a completely different country. In fact, the driving reminds me very much of Sri Lanka or India, except with slightly better pavement. In all three places, lane lines either do not exist or are ignored when they do exist. I like lanes.

What I noticed this morning...

I noticed this morning that some people have flat butts. I mean really flat. These people gain width as they get older, or fatter, or at least seem to, but there just isn't much volume back there. Why is that? It makes me wonder how they walk, or climb stairs...I really think that is what the muscle back there does... Anyhow, that is my quandary for today. How is it that some people--notably some women--have flat butts?

I turned it in!

I submitted my dissertation to the University! I even took the extra copies to the book-binding company to be bound. I am really truly done with my dissertation. It's pretty hard to believe.

Right now I am torn between continuing to work (finish up the papers which make up my dissertation, and start a couple of new ones) and taking a nice long holiday. I imagine I will do something in between.

...

so it turns out it was my phone. I guess that is not supprising since I was then only one here, but I had just put it on the charger to power up the night before. it should have been fully charged...i guess that it is kindof on the blink...

No one here

I was in the office alone all day today (which actually was quite productive i think), mostly it was leading up to a meeting that I was to have with Ulrike at 3:30...

As I'm sure come of you can guess, the meeting got cancled at 3:30 (when I showed up to go to it). I really don't mind (it will be tomarrow morning instead) and it wasn't her fault at all (evil and demanding MBA students...) But I did think it a bit amusing...

anyhow, as stated no one else is here, but I swear that a few hours ago I heard what sounded like the last beep of a cell phone running out of power...Anyone missing theirs?

anyhow, I hope that both of you are having wonderful days!!!

The Swan...

So while I was running this morning I was listening to the radio, and the problem of course with morning radio is that the djs tend to talk rather than play music, but interesingly enough one station was talking about the swan finale...the pagent, and the show in general. Their main comment, the show took these women from looking like ordinary women to looking like drag queens. Of course this got me intreaged, so I had to look at the before and after pictures on their websight, and I had to admit it is true. With the too heavy makeup, fake looking breasts and tight attempting to be sexy but often failing clothes, they did indeed appear to be female impersonaters. Even the ones who were, to me, pretty before. Its not really a good look. (look devin, I was paying attention last night, and have even figured out how to bold, now if only I could underline and write in diffrent colors...)

Well, I should really consider working now, but as a last bit on the subject, does anyone want to see connie and carla?

Nikki called me on her cell phone! It was so exciting! (Should I start doing longer and more substantive posts, or are these okay?)

Hi?

Noone is here! Wow, I just realized that all I wanted to say was "Noone is here!" I guess that means I'm done now.

:)

It was too late for me to vote, but it turned out the way I wanted anyway.

Reupert won!!!

In case you havn't heard I just thought that I would let you know that Reupert won the "america votes" part. It is not supprising. I figured that only he and boston rob really had any chance. anyhow, I bet it was a bit of a landslide...they didn't tell us of course, but I would guess that reupert won by a whole lot....

anyhow, yea! We all really have thought that reupert should have won last timw, so it is really good to have him win in the end!!!

Reupert

:(
he didn't win, however, there is still the possibility that we could give him the 1 mill this thursday. Just go to CBS.com and vote for him!!! I am really hoping to see him get it this tursday!!!!

Yay Rupert!

I have only watched about 2 1/2 episodes of this season's Survivor, but I just remember loving Rupert from last Season (the only one I ever really watched.) I'm glad he's still in it. :) It would be cool if someone nice could manage to win!

:) (I seem to be in a smiley mood today.)

Empty Office

It's 11 and the office is empty, of other people at least. I do see various belongings of Devin's (a belt and backpack) that make me suspicious that she has been here (have you?) where are you????

With respect to Survivor last night which I watched, What was Tom thinking? Also I'm really not sure how voting Tom off was in the best interest of rob and his girl? If they stuck with him they could have been confident of getting to three...That is unless they thought that he would side with Rupert...

Tired

I'm so tired. I've been overly tired all week. I think that not exercising has gotten the better of me. I've come to the conclusion that exercising only makes me tired for the first few times in a row that I do it, but not exercising just drains me! I'm not entirely sure that this conclusion makes sense, but it seems anecdotally true. When I've been exercising I just pop out of bed the next morning, but all this week it has been all I can do to drag myself out of the sheets at all...

I think that I had better get dressed and force myself to go running now. I'll let you know how it goes.

Real food here too, soon...

Chris and I will again be able to store real food at home again tomorrow! The new fridge is arriving. Yes, we are getting a new fridge. While the fridge has probably been in steady decline for several years (it never seemed that cold) this state has been accelerating quickly for the last month or so when it quit freezing things all together. Currently the milk is residing in the freezer. This is the best option since the freezer, while in no danger of freezing anything, is colder than the fridge, which is probably only mildly cooler than room temp...
wish us luck...

Real Food.

So in response to yesterday's hunger posts, I went grocery shopping. I brought more of the not real food items - like cereal bars and popcorn cakes. But I also brought some tuna cans with the easy open lids, and some Ritz crackers. Mayonnaise packets, salt, pepper, and utensils are readily available, and I already have plastic plates and paper cups in the office. I also have oatmeal, which cooks nicely with the hot water from our water cooler. We'll see how this goes.

Of course, I do think it is good that we leave the office occasionally. And the lack of food generally does force us to take a break... Perhaps it's better if we don't have food?

I'm hungry too....

...which is really unnecessary, since we have a refrigerator in our office but none of us bring real food to eat (except for Becky's occasional yogurts).

I want a cookie.

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