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La Bene Vita
I am a professional musician  , worship leader , small business owner , songwriter , aspiring author and freelance nonfiction writer with a chemical engineering degree .
But that's just my resume.
My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.
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...always get me down. Well, maybe just today.
We got enough students in one of our 6/13 summer camps, but if the other one doesn't get two enrollments TODAY, it gets axed. And we don't have enough students in ANY of our other camps this summer. 
What really bums me out is that I *knew* we needed to get the camps advertised earlier. By now, everyone has their whole summer planned. It was giving me anxiety all through January and February, but the teachers who were supposed to write the curricula didn't move fast enough. I told them over and over again that if we didn't get them out early, we wouldn't get enrollments.
Damn it. *kick*
On the plus side, I get to sub for the Mommy & Me Music class this morning. That will be fun.  On the minus side, that might get the axe, too. We barely have enough students to pay the teacher, and we're not sure we going to keep the students we *do* have.
Reach 300 students at MTMS by 12/31/11.
 I think we're past all the June withdrawals. It was brutal, but we're already recovering, and we never really went backward, so that's good. We kept enrolling as fast as we withdrew, and we still hit our target enrollment increase in May... barely. June is looking very promising for new enrollments, which means we should have no trouble meeting and even exceeding our net enrollment increase target.
Reading: One book per week.
I'm about halfway through Eldest and enjoying it. It strikes me that, especially on Writing.Com, everyone has an opinion about "good" writing. We write reviews suggesting improvements... how would I improve Paolini's writing? I would tone down the descriptions and ramp up the pace. It's moving a little too slowly for me. How would I improve Stephanie Meyer's writing? Well, her settings are not nearly as vivid as Paolini's, and I never did get a good sense of where La Push is compared to Forks and the Cullen place, let alone how the settings differed (aren't they all just a bunch of woods with a perpetual overcast sky?), so I would polish the descriptions. But doesn't that sound hypocritical, or at least ironic? Meyer, write more like Paolini. Paolini, write more like Meyer. It's all my personal opinion anyway, so who cares? I'm tearing through both authors' works like they're going out of style. There comes a point when you just need to stop listening to what everyone else says about your writing and just write.
Writing:
(1)  Blog at MT.com by the end of Wednesday: Yep.
(2) 30 minutes of daily freestyle writing: I did get a head start on this week's MT.com blog post. It would be good to work on some fiction, though. With lots of narrative drive. And vivid descriptions.
Count points:
Morning weigh-in: ?
Yesterday's points: ?
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Even better if she can whistle to the tune of Mozart or something. 
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