Yay for work!

So I found a job today, which should keep me in the black until November and help me save up enough money for World Fantasy 2010.

The job is at a warehouse for a locally based costuming company.  It only runs through October, but that’s perfect because the training for the wilderness job starts the week after.  If all goes well, I should be gainfully employed for the rest of the year.

In a blessed stroke of good fortune, I landed a normal 8 to 5 shift.  Graveyard is a good shift for writers, but only if you’re sitting at a desk spending 95% of your time doing nothing.  I doubt that’s what this job will be like.

I don’t know what this new job will do to my writing, but I tend to think it will be positive.  At the very least, it’ll give my life some much-needed structure, and at the worst, it’ll make me write as if my life (or livelihood) depended on it.

In unrelated news, my sister went into labor today.  Go Kate!  My mom texted everyone in the family–she’s way excited.  This will be her second grandchild, and my first nephew.  If all goes well, I’ll see him over Thanksgiving.  Sarah and I are already planning the road trip down to Texas–it’s going to be awesome!

Life is very, very good.