I am so ready for a weekend. I wrote three articles this week, sent a few pitches, did a ton of research and interviews, and finished the final important job– recording a voiceover (in Hindi, never done that before) for an Iranian friend’s movie. I’m totally knackered.

I’ve spent the last few minutes trying to solve the Rubik’s cube and really, this is how I relax, the absolute geek that I am.

“How many deadlines do you have now?” my father asked me the other day.

“Seven,” I replied.

“That’s good!”

“Well, it would be,” I said, “Except that they’re spread over the next year!”

That’s to say, one of my editors assigned me a whole lot of stuff until the end of the year, which means I’ll probably have a byline in every issue from now until December. And there are still more ideas I’m supposed to send her way.

I’d take some time off in order to keep that work-life balance thing going, except that I have two more articles due this week, and I haven’t even looked at the assignment sheet of a third piece yet (bad, bad Mridu). I’m supposed to discuss stuff with my photographer, who I haven’t had a chance to meet until now and am hoping is more efficient than moi!

Despite my best intentions, I’ve been sleeping at the office.

The silver lining in all of this is that I’m still afloat despite the economy (two freelancers I know shut shop this week after decades in the business), but I don’t ever remember having to do this much hustling for so little work. I’m not worried, though, just overworked (which I realize, makes me very lucky).

I was having a conversation with an editor the other day (who has a frozen budget) and when I asked if there was anything I could do to help, she told me that the best thing I could do for them was to stay in business and be there to take on work when they’re ready to assign.

Anyone else feeling a little blown away by this ever-changing media landscape? Have any advice or tips to share?

(P.S. Check these out: Fellow freelancer Amy Green writes this moving entry on her blog, and Patti McCracken discusses what this implosion means.)