Putting things in perspective

Yesterday, I sent Doc a text message asking how work was going (he's doing a rotation in emergency medicine - ew!) and his response was: "Well I haven't killed anybody yet." Wonderful. That's what I like to hear! Rock on!

This succinct declaration made me feel slightly better about some of my job stress lately. Because while it would be terrible for a news brief or other news item not to make it into the paper, the lack of its appearance isn't going to hurt anybody, much less kill them. If I screw up it's just a tiny blip on the radar. If Doc makes an error at his job, however, somebody's life is at stake.

He's such a good boyfriend; always helping me to put things into perspective.

I can breathe deeply now... good air in, bad air out.... ahhhhhh.

Today I came into work to learn about a few mistakes in this week's paper:

1. The fire logs ran under a police log header. Oops. A minor issue; happens to the best of us.
2. A child was incorrectly identified in a photo spread. I haven't gotten this confirmed because nobody approached me directly about it, but a friend of a friend happened to mention it. Nothing I can do unless someone tells me about it. Besides, I didn't take the photo, I just ran what the correspondent provided me.
3. Three obits were left out of the paper. All three were e-mailed earlier this week when we had e-mail problems and weren't received on time to be included. Easily rectified because I can run them next week, but the funeral home director still wasn't happy and (I think) we ended up losing an ad over it. I did have the foresight to run a brief on our front page about e-mail problems so hopefully I can't be found at fault for it.

Thank you to the individuals who pointed out my faults, I truly appreciate it. Now I'd like to pose this question: Was there anything good about the paper this week? Or was my 40-hours of hell all for naught? 

I'm sure come Monday I'll hear about a whole number of other errors but I'm inclined to say "whatever" at this point. Let's be happy with the fact that there is a paper to criticize this week, huh? I put one out. Kudos to me because that was no small feat!

Now, who wants to celebrate with some wine?