The weather in NYC sucks. Its cold and foggy and is kinda rainy…blech.

I got up before 7:00 am, after going to bed at 11:00 pm which has become my habit lately. Not exactly sure why but I cant seem to sleep any later.

Yesterday was a big day I am now official at Bumble, went in to sign the papers and hand over my temp license. We went over the benefits and they arent bad! Remember this is a salon. They have full medical and dental, 401k, gym membership discounts (equinox) and 180 worth of products a quarter which is pretty darn good when you think about how much you use products. Ughh…Im so excited I cant even begin to tell you.

I wanted to take some photos of the waiting area to post but it felt kinda wierd, Ill do it next week once Ive actually started. Its so darn cool!! During the interview I ran my new name by Chloe who didnt sound overly impressed with it. Apparently Connie has final say on the names. Yes it blows my mind that I have to do this, but it is what it is.

So if Theo doesnt work out Im thinking something gaudily french like Lionel, or Didier or Laurent something ridiculous. Theres also Caleb because Ive always liked that name. Ill cross that bridge when I get there Im kinda hoping Theo makes it.

Had to do workstudy yesterday at YS which is kinda a bitch its along four hours. I generally do the mens showers and swwep and mop the yoga rooms, which are BIG rooms and then there is the laundry.  Im honestly hoping that I can make enough to stop that doing that ASAP.

Off to Shelter Island for another opening for Mark. It will be fun to get out of the city.

IM SO GLAD THAT THE END OF THIS PURGATORY IS OVER! IM READY TO WORK!!!!!!!

And so a new era begins…..

I got the job at Bumble and Bumble … hallelujah! I found out on Tuesday at my interview with Connie.

Connie has been with BB for 24 years, thats a helluva long time. So long in fact that when she started she was a man and at some point went through the process of becoming a woman interesting, no. Shes a tough cookie in an interview I must say. She would throw out those hard interview questions, that could easily catch you off gaurd. I guess having interviewed people for years now they didnt seem all that out of the ordinary to me. Apparently, Ive had the job since before I left for Tulum, Connie said that by the time a meeting is set up with her I had already been hired. I “knew” that but didnt want to bank on it, ya know.

I also found out that bumble has a 1 person rule which means they only have one of any given name at the salon, and they already have a Jody. So Im going to go by Theo, which is my dads name, I like the way it sounds. It has a certain, I dunno, Americana sound to it. Its better than the usual Ricardo, and Gino type of names I guess I could go all out and do a name like Jackson, or something totally ridiculous. I might just stick with Theo, we’ll see.

Ive been pretty good on the practice front this week I only missed yesterday and that was because I was to sore. Practice is getting better. I have my good days and my bad days. I did something on Sunday which hurt my ankle but it seemed to clear up. Practice seems to release alot of anger lately, I find myself so annoyed during it. It doesn’t help that some of the folks at YS d some weird things. There are a couple of girls that do this syncronized yoga thing, which is childish in and of itself, but to make it even worse, today they came at the most crowded time which meant in order to get spaces next to each other they had to disturb 3 or 4 peoples practice. What gets me is they are both advanced, they are doing 3rd series. My understanding is that the further along you get in the practice the more peaceful and introspective it becomes but I guess not for these two. I dont mean to sound harsh but it seems as though its a way to get attention. Who knows maybe they are practicing for some event where they have to be syncronized. The larger truth for me is that I need to just ignore it and pay more attention to my drishti. Anywho thats enough energy on that.

Mark has a gallery opening tonight which is gonna be pretty cool, Im sure there will be a ton of people there and I hope that he sells some stuff! HE has another opening this saturday on Shelter Island so we are off this weekend to go to that.

Vacation is winding down, Im back home on Sunday evening and while Im sad to leave my family, Im also excited to get back home.  A  whole new life awaits me back there. Ill go back to work at Prive on Tuesday as far as I can recall and then I have two interviews that need to be scheduled with BB and Cutler.

This time off was necessary for me, it was the perfect bookend to the old career and in many ways that whole era of my life. When I return I’ll be super ready and anxious to sink my teeth into the new project. I reached out to both the Bumble and Cutler people to get a time on the books hopefully for the week I get back. This process has been so drawn out and Id really like to just get in there, which ever salon it ends up being as quickly as possible. I dont want to waste any more time than necessary and even if I end up at Prive then at least Ill know.  There is also some self induced stress that Ive been applying as reports come in from classmates about starting salon jobs. Strange competitiveness that amounts to nothing. Not to mention that I have a job and am going back for 2nd interviews with 2 of the top salons in the city, meaning that I am fine and I should calm down ; )

Im going to miss the family though, big time. It really does get harder and harder to leave my parents. Dont get me wrong  I couldnt live in Denver again, there is no possible way. I also think my relationship with my family is good BECAUSE I live far away. Still, leaving will be hard. Getting home will be easy, I am so excited to see Mark, George and  Kitty!!!

At this very moment I am very sad, about leaving Tulum, about leaving my baby for a week. Although we have had a solid month together and I mean everyday we’ve been together, good news is that the time flew by without very much notice. So thats good, we are good both together and apart.

Tomorrow I begin traveling at 9:00 am central time and finish at 12:00 am Mountain time, its going to suck. Not to mention that Mark has felt pretty ill all day and I think Im fighting something off as well. Lets hope it doesnt progress any further.

Im looking forward to seeing my family its been since last November and then it was a very short trip so this should be a nice relaxing visit.

Hmm — so didnt make it on the bicycles yesterday. The inertia of poolside life took that thought right out of my mind. Spent the day at the pool and at the beach. Today we are going to get in the car and do a road trip to Playa Del Carmen, its supposedly a big city which will be a nice break from the resort life.

I thought this trip would be more like Aruba in terms of my energy leve but I am way more restless than I was halfway through school. I was tired back then it was tough with school and work and all. Mainly it was the school those four hours so late really did me in. Im sure that the salon on some days is going to be as tiring but I will at least be able to get into bed at a decent hour and not be up until 11-12 everynight.  Anyway, so yeah, Im all restless here and this place is really a place to just relax. It doenst help that the only books I brought arent books that Im particularly into. I brought A new Earth, which is really really good but its not the vibe Im into at the moment, and I also brought The Golden Compass which is also good but its a tween book and its just a bit irritating on some level.

Yesterday there 18 people booked into the hotel, which is pretty amazing, how can you stay in business with so few customers. Maybe its not high season as of yet, who knows. Although there was a robbery here a year back or so. It was a wedding party and someome had thier safe broken into, whoever wrote the review went on and on and on about it and maybe thats hurt business. I dont feel that I or my shit is unsafe at all and that type of robbery takes place everywhere. There were a few new face yesterday so perhaps it will be more busy as the week goes on. I think if we come to this style of vacation, relaxed beachy type we are going to do a gay place. We have met one couple, a teacher and his wife from indiana the sweetest folks you ever want to mee. Otherwise people are a little but standoffish. You kinda forget that being gay is so controversial, but it is in some parts of the world. The staff has been nothing but sweet so I cant fault them at all.

Im in Mexico right now and its pretty amazing! We are at the very fancy place called Azul Blue Tulum. Its a gourmet all inclusive. Its pretty small only 98 rooms so there arent a lot of people here. So just right in terms of number of people around and only one well behaved child.

I love Mexico, the ocean here is beautiul and the beach is gorgeous in a very rustic way. The place we are staying is right on the each but its a bit rocky so you have to walk about 5 minutes down to get to a nice sandy area which tottaly deserted. ARRG … its so beautiful, I swam naked as the day I was born in the ocean yesterday and it was really amazing, it was the first time Ive ever done that and surely not the last. Of course the beach was desered and I did have my trunks around my neck but still!!

Tulum reminds me of India in someways, first off the smell, not in a bad way, but there is a wood burning earthiness to the smell that reminds me of Gokulum. And from what Ive seen of the local neighborhoods they also remind me of india. A big difference is that people tend to be on the heavier side as opposed to skinny. But just as kind and welcoming as in India. I keep thinking to myself why anybody would want to leave Mexico and go to the states, Im sure its for financial gain but if they only knew how much better off they are here.

We are going to do a bicycle tour of the Mayan ruins on thursday and today we might rent bikes and ride into  town, I want to check out the side streets and get off the main drag. We asked one of the waiters lastnight what his favorite restaurant was so that we could check out some good local dining. The food at the resort is good but its all upscale fancy stuff, Im wanting some good down home local Mexican food!!

Ive done yoga everyday that we’ve been here so thats good. I am really starting to get back into my serious practice.  It feels very “right”, so strange and majical that it re aligns my whole being in the way that it does. Not to sound to cliche but it does really put me on the center of the path thats ahead of me.

Did I mention that I burnt the hell out of myself on the first day? My upper body is lobster red, stayed pretty much out of the sun yesterday and will be under an umbrella today as well.

So I have two second interviews when I get back to New York one at Bumble and the other at CutlerI Interviewed at each place back to back before I left. The Bumble interview went really well,I think Chloe was impressed with my interview, we tried to get me through my second interview before I left but it didnt work with Connie the VP schedule, so we are going to do it when I return. The Cutler interview went stellar as well, we also  are doing a second interview when I get back. Ben wants me to meet the education director and the owner…I think in both cases they are pretty good signs. Without jinxing myself Im hoping that I go 4 for 4 that would be AWESOME! If not Im still at Prive!!!

Such a time of huge change I can hardly believe it. This is the last week of school, it seems like yesterday and like an eternity ago that I started this whole project. At the end of this week I will be a fully (albeit temporarily) licensed cosmetologist. I could wax poetic about the power of intention with action but I wont. It suffices to say that I do feel proud of myself for seeing this through. In many ways it was the easiest part, sure the schedule was tough with yoga work and school but that was manageable now the next tough part is the pay cut. Im going to make less than a third of what I was making thats going to be really tough. But, the way Im choosing to frame it is in yogic terms. Truth be told alot of the income  I made went to rent and stuff, plain old stuff, nothing of major consequence. So Yogically speaking the loss of income will help refine my needs from my wants.  Thats my story and Im sticking to it!!!

I gave notice at work last week… talk about a watershed moment. It was scary and exciting.  More scary walking into it and exhilarating walking out of it. Apparently the mgmt team knew all about my going to beauty school, things leak pretty easily at Advent. Which means that they were being pretty cool about the whole thing.

I’m working at Prive which is a salon in Soho next to the Soho Grand Hotel. Its all very Fancy with a capital F. I like it so far the job is exactly as I thought it was going to be..except I didnt know how hard the shampooing was gonna be on my hands. They are chapped like never before!! The people are great as well. I have to say that it feels right. There are moments when Im like “What the hell am I doing here?!” Then I realize that this is right where I should be. More later….

Ughh today I was in a pissy mood at yoga for no good reason.  Everything seemed to bug me. Truth be told if I were paying more attention to  proper dristi I wouldn’t have be so annoyed.  I cant seem to get over the fact that people chant out loud, I mean I get it, I love to arrive early enough to chant as a class out loud. It seems like its been AGES since that happened. But honestly its unnerving when you in the middle of something and then a person breaks out at the top of their voice with and AUM. There are really only a couple of folks who are REALLY loud but still I just cant get over it.

Then it seemed like everywhere I looked there were people who were doing wierd strange “not really proper ashtanga mysore practice” one guy who needed help from mari a through supta k for the binds was practicing tik toks another gal who also looked like she needed help with all the binds in first was going through half of 2nd. What any of this has to do with me I dont know. Actually it makes the fact that Im finally doing 2nd not so great if anybody who wants to can seem to just go for it. Then there’s the chick that has a pretty awesome practice somewhere in 3rd series who giggles through each and every pose, which is wierd to me because it seems like everybody Ive ever witnessed who is that advanced has the most silent and still practice. I just felt like I was in a gymnastics class today. Again, if I had been solely focused on MY OWN practice I would be none the wiser and enjoying it. I did enjoy practice, actually I loved it. Although sitting here I just realized that I completely omitted backbends COMPLETELY none on my own or dropbacks or anything. How the hell did that happen? Thats alright Ill do them tomorrow.

ITs been a long time been a long time been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely time….  (Led Zeppelin)

It is kinda lonely, Mark is away again, this time in Morocco for a photo shoot.  Talk about a great life!!!

So its me and the new kids! Did I mention that  I got the most adorable kittly she and George are like twins both black with a little white bib. It was touch and go at first but now they are like two peas in a pod…well almost. I worry about Georges eyes because they bulge out of his head and the kitty has claws. But they are so darn cute its crazy.

School is almost over…FINALLY we had our last  final lastnight the practical portion and tonight we have the written and then we are fini! I have 22 days left (not including tonight) before I am FRE FRE FREEEEEEEEE!

Practice today was tough, I basically took last week off which was probably not the best idea in the world it wasnt on purpose but it ended up that way. I practiced once.  Today wasn’t terrible but I feel like a fat ass which makes it alwasy kinda difficult. I was pretty limber all through out and I can successfully get the leg behind the head with ease these days. You would think that supta k would be easy to get on my own but I still have trouble getting the hand bind. Basically its mechanics issues, like I dont know “how” to get into it. No bother really it will come as I get really consistent again.

Ughhh I had an entire post written and then firefox went haywire and closed.

Poof gone like that.