Oh, silly acronyms, you have a special place in my heart.

To be quite blunt, I, Josh Belville, have been on the internet Far Too Much.  It dawned on me today as I signed up for LinkedIn, yet another in a growing trend of social networking sites.  When I signed up for it, I didn’t know anyone on it, and had to use other social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook, to let people know that I had joined LinkedIn.  This broke something in my brain, and it melted.  My brain melted.

With that all in mind, I  just wanted to make a brief statement about what I’m going to do.  If you care, great.  If you don’t care, why the hell are you reading this in the first place?

National Novel Writing Month and National Solo Album Month are both in November.  I have signed up to do both.  Why?  Because I’m an idiot.  But having goals and deadlines is a good thing to have when most of your day is spent with four tabs open on your browser, each one on a different job website.  I feel like a vulture, circling an economy waiting to die for some scrap of food that will keep me going.  I mean, shit.  I went to an interview yesterday to recruit people to take surveys at movie theaters.  Surveys at movie theaters.  A monkey dressed like a human could do a job like that.  A mentally-challenged ostrich could do a job like that.  Hell, a mime could do it.  And yet they haven’t called me back.

This leads me to one invaluable-yet-surprising conclusion:  I have a terrible presence at face-to-face interviews.  Which is unsettling, and is something I have to work on.

But that’s not why I’m writing this entry.  I’m writing because I’m setting some goals for myself.  Primary is, as always, to get a job (preferably one I like).  The second goal is one 50,000 word novel and one 15-track album created in November.  And the third goal is No Internet.  No Facebook, no Myspace, no Twitter for November, and potentially for the rest of the year.  I think all I’ll do is write the occasional blog for this site, and update my website with NaNo and NaSo stuff, and regular music stuff like shows I might get.  That sounds about right.

I think I’m going to start this tomorrow after I promote Songs for Autumn.  I’m going to promote, promote, promote, and then it’s radio silence (mostly) for a month.

Yeah, that sounds good.