Spurt of business.

Have I done more stressful things, put myself under more dangerous conditions, stretched myself thinner in the past for fewer stories of less impact to fewer people, holding less satisfaction for me in the past than I am doing now?

Yes. Repeatedly, in fact.

I have spent the last 23 years of my life chasing stories, variously ill-conceived, only to form them into rambling, aimless narratives and diatribes that go nowhere, accomplish nothing, and affect no one. Much of this blog is just exactly that.

Today was moderately stressful.

And I am worn out tired.

But it was all worthwhile; and I do not regret a thing.

All week, I have been juggling working and doing news. Nice how quick I got back into the swing of news this time around -- circumstances forced me to it, last night, when the AP reported Richardson was dropping out of the presidential race.

Nicer to know I *can* juggle two lives successfully when I absolutely *must*.

Sometimes I do my best work when I'm backed into a near-impossible corner.

Tomorrow: a Wilson event. Then Next week: three ATCs.

Am looking forward to it, but conserving energy.