Berries, Goji

You know how sometimes your work life spills over into the rest of your life? Like on the Office episode where Pam is like, "Sometimes I answer my home phone, 'Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.'" I had one of those moments last night.

After watching all of my Thursday night TV shows that make the rest of the week worth living, I was sitting at my kitchen table drinking some Goji berry green tea (I'll get to why that's important later), working on some long overdue thank-you notes for wedding gifts. (To anyone reading this who gave us a present: We really do appreciate it, we've just been so busy! The letter is in the mail now, I promise.) Anyway, so I was sitting there, addressing envelopes and writing the best belated notes I could think of, when all of a sudden I forgot a comma (gasp!). Instead of just adding in a comma like any other sane person would do, I put in the copy-edit mark for a comma.

I thought about it for a minute--because I really didn't want to waste the card--and I was relatively positive that the intended recipient wouldn't notice much less care about the addition of a comma or copy-edit mark. But I rewrote it anyway.

This isn't the first time this has happened. For the wedding programs, as another example, I maniacally read them over and over checking for errors. I was dangerously close to making a project folder for them like we do here at the AP skyscraper, but I resisted.

Back to last night. So I kept drinking tea...  Goji berry tea... which is delicious and also apparently extremely potent for me. So I was wide-awake until 2 a.m. I wrote lots and lots of thank-yous, paid all my bills, organizing at least two notebooks and finally made myself try to fall asleep. I went to bed thinking, "Good, I've got so much under control now. I'll just get up in the morning at my usual time and get more done so I can enjoy the weekend."

And then I overslept this morning. I blame the Goji berries.