La Bene Vita

Wednesday

NEW GOAL: Learn one new cover band song per week.
In progress, but I didn't even listen to my YouTube playlist yesterday! Listening now.

Launch one new Potbelly song per week.
Goal met. I didn't actually sing it yet, but I played through the tab and figured out chords for "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It's been in my folder forever, but the chords weren't there, so I had to figure them out. It's going to be pretty sweet as an acoustic cover.

Write one new original song per month.
Goal met: "Longing"  [13+]

Work on music instruction books for fifteen minutes per day.
Fail.

Post at WordPress at least once per week.
Pending. I guess I should do this today. Working day shift and really tired... But I'll get it.

Write one Textbroker article per week.
Goal met. I wrote another ten articles yesterday.

Submit one short story/article per month.
Pending, unless you count all my Textbroker articles. I received an awesome rejection on my "The Butterfly Stone" sub:

Thanks very much for sending this to _Beneath Ceaseless Skies_. Unfortunately, it's not quite right for us.  Although the prose in places felt a bit slow to me, as though it were describing more of the details of sequences of movements or actions than I wanted, I really liked the narrator's attitude that this assassination would be easy. But as the story moved through to the climax, I didn't feel that emotional arc deepen and reach a climax of its own, as I had been hoping it might.  I wondered what the narrator felt about assassinating a noble of her choice just for fun.  I wondered what she felt about having to kill the servant boy bringing the brandy.  I wondered more about the relationship she had had with her mentor whom she had taken the stone from.  I was hoping she might reach some deeper conclusion than only being tired of living.  I also found the epilogue scene unnecessary because it was more about the Stone itself than about her.

I appreciate your interest in our magazine.  Please feel free to submit again.

Work for fifteen minutes on "Poor Witch"  [E] every day.
Fail..

Complete and edit "Poor Witch"  [E] by 6/30/09.
Fail.

Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day.
Fail.

Resign from Abbott by 12/1/09.
In progress.

Reach 140.0 lbs by 8/21/2009.
Weight: 147.0, thanks to my friend Tuggle's new pizza place. Well, I guess he's not responsible for the Graeter's.

Meals:
7:15am Cherry PopTart (4)
8:00am Coffee (1)
9:00am Granola bar (2)
11:00am Apple ZonePerfect bar(3)
12:30pm Tea with creamer (1)
1:00pm NutriGrain bar (2.5)
4:30pm Six nuts (1)
6:00pm Mozz stick (2?), two squares pizza (3?), garlic bread (2)
9:00pm Watermelon and peach sorbet from Graeter's (6?)