So let's set up and see:.

It's been two weeks since I came back to school. Truth be told, though I've enjoyed the courses I chose for this semester, the very best is not an academic one, but Yoga. I had my very first approach to Yoga precisely when I was about to graduate from college, and five years later I'm taking the same course, but with several improvements.

The thing I like the most is to be aware of the way you breathe. I know we're used to think about this process as something mechanical, but it can be more, much more, than that!.

Just looking out on the day,
of another dream.

Something touched me deep inside the day the music died:.

A couple of years ago I took my loyal Zen player, loaded it with a couple of excellent songs, and went backpacking across Italy for two weeks or so. It was quite an experience, but this all comes out now because now that I think about it, I'm not sure if one of those songs was Don McLean's American Pie.

This might sound silly for some, but I tend to think of my history by the songs I can remember from key points in my life. To listen to a song you thought forgotten, and be able to recall emotions, flavors, thoughts and much more, is just amazing!!:.

Be as it may, today I felt like listening to this song again =):.

And, there we were,
all in one place - a generation Lost in Space -
with no time left to start again.

And I've got a coat tail left to ride:.

If everything goes as planned this semester I'll be graduating from my master's degree. To be honest, I liked the whole idea of being back at school, and having academic challenges. In some aspects, it's less demanding than being in a work environment, but the advantage is that you've got plenty of time to specialize on the things that you find particularly interesting, even if they're not business wise. Research for the joy of research!!:.

Now the question is, what's next?. As Morpheus said, everything begins with choice, and right now the options are pursuing a PhD or going back to the industry. To be honest, there's one more variable, to stay in Mexico or to look for opportunities abroad. I haven't decided anything yet, but neither did Neo till the end of the movie =):.

Although my heart's in Mexico,
my muñequita,
abre tus ojos!

Let the music play:.

Well, let's recall what happened during these weeks of rest, first of all I went on a tour to the amazing state of Chiapas!. I had never been there and I must say it really surprised me, nature is simply amazing. But to be honest it disappointed me the way tourism is managed with all this mexican-curious idea. I specially didn't like the way children are taught to beg for money, and not because they don't need it, but because you can tell there's no innocence in the act, just mechanical repetition. Or when you visit a small town and have to pay for the privilege of taking a picture. There's so much potential there, both in the people and places, and keeping them isolated just to sell them as a curiosity is not fair:.

I've also been working on my master thesis project. Though the implementation is not yet finished, it's stable enough to show and discuss it with my advisors. This week I'll be writing down the motivations and details of what I've implemented so far, to be honest, it's more fun to program than to document what you've programmed =)

Next week I'll go back to school. First class of my last semester: yoga!!:.

I need something I can turn to,
something I can count in,
day and night, on and on.