Yesterday was kind of hectic. Lots of work to do, I’m still writing the daily column here at work. I’m also trying to track down a bunch of stuff for the lists, which is the other part of my job. I swear, sometimes it feels like that’s all I do. I wasn’t able to put together a big project that I wanted to (but wasn’t necessary) for the Web this week because of the list work. It’s starting to get quite frustrating.

The good news is, however, that the my former publication in the northern Toledo suburbs, for which I was the managing editor before coming to CDB, won a general excellence award from the Michigan Press Association for work done while I was there. The few people I’ve told about it have asked, what the heck are you doing managing Web sites. The answer: it paid the bills and was a steady 9-to-5. A good job to have when you’re married and thinking of starting a family. Looks like it’s time to get back into newspapers. I’ve got a pretty good success rate going. The Pacemaker (essentially the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism) and countless Michigan Press Association awards while editor-in-chief at my college newspaper, an armload of reporting, design and general excellence awards from the Oklahoma Press Association while at the in Choctaw County and now an Associated Press general excellence award. It makes me wonder sometimes if I’m squandering my talent. What do you think?