Belated Blog

Belated Blog...
Apologies that I'm a day behind. Work has come between me and my leisurely pursuits again. I worked until 9:55 on Tuesday and was here until almost 11 p.m. last night (though I did take a 2 hour "dinner break" from 7-9 to meet up with some friends down the street... hey--I ate my lunch at my desk, so I feel no guilt). And I'm going for the trifecta tonight. It's 7:34 and I'm still here--and I have resigned myself to the fact that I'll be here at least another hour (so why not blog now?).
Im still new at this whole blogging endeavor (as you've probably guessed from the lack of links or visual aids). And I'm a bit paranoid about revealing too much about my private life--and, especially, my work life--in such a public sphere. (I read a few days ago that a St. Louis Dispatch reporter was suspended for having a blog--or, rather, for writing "unflattering remarks" about his employer on said blog).
Suffice it to say that I am feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated at the office. But that's probably true of 99 percent of the people who work for someone else. I have no plans on going out on my own, though, having tried freelancing for a year. The autonomy was great, but the unpredictable flow of funds was not. Also, as a freelance writer, you spend as much time pitching yourself and your story ideas as you do actually writing the stories. And I prefer to just focus on the reporting and writing and leave the marketing to our publicity dept.
Promise to write more tomorrow. But I really want to make it home before 10 tonight. So I must sign off, for now, and get back to work.