So I'm trying to get back into just doing a normal blog, now that my official website is up and all of my postings are going to be there from now on (www.joshhornbeck.com).  So I suppose I'll just start by talking a little about what's happening in my life right now.  I'm on a summer break from my job at Seattle Pacific University (which means I don't get paid) and I've been searching for work over the last month and a half.  I'm signed up with two temp agencies and have yet to get a call.  I apply to every possible craigslist posting I see related to writing - still nothing.  I just dropped off an application at Dunn Lumber to work in their lumber yard.  A former student of mine works there and said they were hiring.  Not exactly the type of work I want to be doing, but if it pays the bills for two months, then it pays the bills for two months.

What this abundance of free time has enabled me to do, however, has been to write nearly full-time.  I've been trying to put six to eight hours a day in on my essays and criticism, with an occasional story here and there.  And I think I have a nice foundation for my new website.  In some ways, it's a shift of direction for my writings, focusing more directly on faith-based issues and topics, but I think it's the direction my film criticism was needing to go anyway.  I like it.  I'm actually happier with the pieces I'm posting than I have been with my writings in a while.  So I think it's definitely a good shift in direction.

I find myself sleeping until nine or ten in the morning (no wonder I haven't found work yet) and then taking my time with the day.  I'll start really diving into my writing by about six or seven at night and then I'll work until two or three in the morning.  It's been a great time of creativity and productivity.  But now that the site is up - and it was a pain getting all of the codes and things correct - I just have to make sure that I maintain the content and keep writing.  Otherwise, it'll be just another good idea that I was never able to follow through on.

Well, I think that's it for now.  Time to get back to my other writings.