Out of Egypt:

why i love proofreading/copyediting

It's a form of sanctified nitpicking.

True confession: I asked my dad for a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition when I was 8 or so. My favorite part was the section on punctuation.

And yet I'm not a perfect speller (or punctuator, for that matter). In fact, I seem to be getting worse. Earlier tonight, I would've misspelled "commitment" in an email if it hadn't been for Firefox's amazing inline spellchecker. I don't know what's happening to me.