Lots of pots on the stove

It's funny how the more pots you have on the stove, the less productive you actually feel. My Root Cellar story was a mess from the get go -- it was axed, it was refocused, it was reworked several times because I had the worst writer's block in the world, and when I did finally finish it with beaucoup help from Jeanne, it was put off until next week to make it more timely, understandably -- leaving me feeling like I had done absolutely nothing this week. But I suppose that wasn't entirely true. I did the fairgrounds tax story, I worked on the Root Cellar piece every single day, I geared up for my multimedia project, I started doing background on a couple other pieces I'll be working on next week, and I worked 20 hours outside of the newsroom. So I guess even though my productivity isn't showing up in my profile, it's there somewhere.