Phase 2

Two and a Half weeks into the job, routine starting to become a little more locked down, (Still not having as much success as I would like with the morning workouts. I really need to work on getting up and getting up on time. We'll call this a working goal.), and fully settled into the apartment.

A week ago, a friend of mine wrote an email asking how the Grand Western Experiment was going. The way she phrased it as the "grand experiment" caused me to look at the move in this sense. At the very beginning, I think this was exactly what I was going for. Trying something completely foreign and taking a chance to see if it would work. Over the months of job searching, I may have lost a little bit of that sense as my focus directed towards finding work and securing a future. But riding above everything was the "experiment" and the chance that was being taken. So in looking at the move in this way, I would say that it is a must to break down this new direction into phases that can be analyzed, observed, and reflected on at a later date. My "Brand New Day" will come to an end at some point, but for now it is just entering into the next phase. If phase one was coming out and establishing myself with a home and employment than it is clear to say that phase one is finished.

As is pretty clear, the majority of my blog posts for the past months have been about the job search and my frustrations or joys depending on the process. Well since I am locked into the job, I can no longer write about the search. And while I plan to still write about the transition to the film world, my non-disclosure agreement kind of limits me as to how detailed I can be in my writing. Thus it is time that I move on to a next phase of this blog, and the newest phase of my move.

When I first started blogging, I aimed to reflect more about how the move affected my personality and spirit. I saw lofty goals in leaving the crowds of New York and entering into the expansiveness of the west coast. I think now as phase 1 comes to a close, this is the next step of the "grand experiment". I feel as if this next phase will focus my writing more on some ruminations of life and reflecting on the way that this move is affecting the person that I am and the person I aim to be. So with the hope that my writing will not become too dry or drab in the coming weeks, I start Phase 2 of my Brand New Day and set out to discover a little bit more of myself on this crazy journey of manifest destiny. Blog with you later.

-Nice Guy-