La Bene Vita

Thursday: "Avatar"

Resign from Abbott by 4/4/10.
In progress and on schedule.

Brand the biz(es.)
In progress.

Business: Music Instruction Books.
Stalled. I may have to *gasp* have my new students buy published books... or write as I go and not charge for it.

Launch one new Praise Band song per month.
Goal met.

Post at WordPress at least once per week.
Goal met. http://www.michelletuesday.com

Achieve a weight of 145.0 by 3/31/10.
Weight:  154.4
Meals:
8:30am Coffee (1)
10:00am Coffee (1)
1:45pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7)
6:30pm Bob Evans chicken/cranberry/pecan salad (?), cup chili (?), two pieces of banana bread (?) and half of a caramel mocha (?).
TOTAL POINTS: What's 10% of zero, again?

Write new lyrics once per week.
Goal met: "Thirty"  [13+]

Write one new original song per month.
In progress.

Launch one new repertoire song per week.
Pending.

Taxes.
In progress.

Well, it wasn't a very productive day yesterday.

I did record a song ("Free," with percussion and bass tracks... I love that recording gear!), update my WordPress blog, and play bd's, which was awesome again. By request, I have to learn a Coldplay song. Any suggestions? Make it quick, and I can still meet my weekly "new repertoire song" by Saturday, which is my last Potbelly day of the week.

The rest of my day was taken up by an afternoon 3-D showing of "Avatar" with Keith.

Wow.

I don't even mean just the special effects, which were amazing. I'm talking plot... that writer (writers) has a hell of an imagination.

Although, I do have some characterization convenience complaints. The (General? head military dude) and the whiny-ass head corporate dude were too one-dimensional. They were fully evil, blinded to possibility that the Na'vi race might be a legitimate people, and although history has shown that kind of callousness in real-life bad guys, it was too convenient. We didn't get a chance to learn enough about their characters to believe it. And even Jake took a little long to come around and empathize with The People... at one point, when he was reporting back to the General, he was already somewhat emotionally involved. I would have expected him to at least have some reservations about his reporting, or to demonstrate somehow his motivation for betraying them.

Not that I think the writers should have added more characterization to a movie that started at 3pm and ended at 5:45pm.