My blogs have been severely neglected, I know. I had a good reason. Basically, as soon as I got back from Hawaii and got moved in to our new place, it was Trivia Bowl planning overdrive. I don’t know about anyone else, but doing volunteer work for a non-profit is not easy. In fact, I liken it to the phrase “herding cats.” Because you get a whole bunch of people who have their own jobs spending a lot of time organizing an event that takes almost as much time as that day job for no pay and very little payoff — except, of course, the satisfaction and joy you get from raising money to help student and professional journalists further their careers. Although…I’m not sure how you balance all that work out with the headaches, frustration and spurts of angrily-typed (more like pounded) emails. Yeah, I’m not kind to my keyboards when I’m mad.
But, its over. And you’d think the hard part was getting the volunteers organized, but that was the easiest part of what I had to do this year.
