Foolish Perfectionism:
I found out earlier this week that John, the editor at MySimon whom hired me, has been laid off. He feels ok about it. Me, I’ll miss our excellent editor/writer relationship and the painfully easy money.
Which is how my last assignment, a no-thought Holiday Gift Guide, should have gone. Instead I spent an entire afternoon bickering with myself over whether Nick Hornby will be mad at me because I put How to Be Good as only the 6th best book to give this yuletide.
It was already dark when I finished.
I used to do this sort of foolish perfectionism in high school. It still takes a lot of reminders to keep me from doing it now.