YOGAGIRL: As a mantra of fact.......

February 2006



celebrate. yoga style

Monday, 27 February 2006 7:14 P GMT-08
I'm having a yoga "party" of sorts to celebrate my 200 hour yoga training graduation. I invited all of my instructor friends and have opened it up to the members at my gym. It will be on March 18th from 1pm-3:30 with tea, cookies, and conve
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no post since Brooklyn either..

Sunday, 26 February 2006 9:28 A GMT-08
heh. Wah happened? Oh well. The audition on Thursday went well. She appears to be a seasoned professional. I've got her lined up to teach a new "Beginner Fitness" class on Tuesday nights.  It occurred to me the other day that were
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no sleep 'till Brooklyn..

Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:53 P GMT-08
Ms. Brooklyn is auditioning tonight. I added a special step class on the schedule specifically for it. Next Thursday I have another instructor trying out in the same time spot. I learned a long time ago it's a good idea to get these people live

observations...

Wednesday, 22 February 2006 9:58 A GMT-08
i'm so tired of using my poor blog to bitch about the stupid things that go on in the gym. Today? The new kickbox girl I hired last week showed up 30 minutes LATE for her class. She claimed she got "lost". Huh? She's been to the gym 3x befo
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BLAM!

Monday, 20 February 2006 10:37 A GMT-08
I need one of those crazy comic book ballons for that blog title. You know the ones? CRASH! BOOM!! BAM!!! *&^#@!^&*!!!!! This morning on the way to the gym I was driving down the road and up ahead was a green light, unfortunately there
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babysitter..

Saturday, 18 February 2006 1:40 P GMT-08
I just had to sit down and write a friendly reminder (stern email) to all of my staff because of 3 things that happened this past week. Sometimes, it's quite funny the reminders of the "obvious" that I have to give. It started yesterday.
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honesty..maybe not always the best policy?

Thursday, 16 February 2006 7:46 P GMT-08
I interviewed this guy yesterday. I met him at the AFAA pilates training and come to find out he's a member at our gym. He also teaches fitness full time at a local hospital wellness center, well he teaches pilates reformer classes and does a little
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be careful what you ask for..

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:35 P GMT-08
forgive me. Somebody (eek can't remember who?) commented the other day and asked how I handled the email complaint about the 5:15am class. Well...it was actually a pretty easy fix. If you remember, the lady felt that what I was teaching was &quo
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she emerges..

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 9:13 A GMT-08
sad. I wish I had good news. I'm still sick. I'm trying to sleep it off but all that does is make me lay awake all night, only to have to get up at 4:30am to go teach these god-for-saken early morning classes. And it's definitely one of those cold vi
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thursday

Thursday, 9 February 2006 8:07 P GMT-08
so did everyone enjoy my 2 week tangent on pursuing a job that i really didn't want? Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking either. Speaking of jobs..today was a doozie. I got up at 4:30 this morning with a raging sore throat. At first I thought
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oh wah!

Wednesday, 8 February 2006 9:11 A GMT-08
the HR rep *called* me and left a voicemail to thank me for my time but to tell me that they feel I am not suited for their position. Hmmm...upon reflection, was it because I asked the team on Monday why they had staffed this particular dep
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the grass isn't always greener...

Tuesday, 7 February 2006 10:40 A GMT-08
on the other side of the fence. I am a gut feeling kind of girl. I came out of that interview with my gut telling me to RUN! RUN AWAY! So that's what I'm doing. I'm sorta torn between just forgetting about it, or rattling off a letter to the 'residen
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red flags...and several reasons why I might not get (want) the job.

Monday, 6 February 2006 2:47 P GMT-08
First? The red flags. Not horrible per se, but something to SERIOUSLY ponder: I haven't met ONE male management employee that works for this organization yet. I was put in a conference room with 5 women who grilled me for an hour. I cloc
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phase out..

Monday, 6 February 2006 9:42 A GMT-08
No I don't have a job offer but I am anticipating one. A problem that arises is that I currently teach *11* classes out of the 60 we offer per week at the gym. If I do get an offer and decide to give up my management position, I fear my boss will tel
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hello... I might be your new boss!

Friday, 3 February 2006 8:23 P GMT-08
so I finally got a call back from HR today. We've set up my 2nd interview for Monday (unfortunately it doesn't sound like the last) and one of the people I am meeting with on Monday is their  "fitness specialist". I would be her immedi
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taking a big breath...

Thursday, 2 February 2006 9:30 A GMT-08
well I sent my thankyou note yesterday and this morning I just couldn't stand it anymore so I called the HR rep. Come to find out I passed the Resident Life Director's scrutiny with flying colors and HR was just trying to get people lined up so that
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waste of time...

Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:07 P GMT-08
what follows is a detailed account of what happened on Sunday. I signed up for a one day pilates workshop. Now granted, I realize that you have to have pretty low expectations for a one day workshop but this one was presented by AFAA and I was curi
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