You only get one chance to not mess up a first impression.

I've been emailing the regional chair of the National Critics Institute competition in my district with some questions I had, and immediately after sending email #2 or 3, I realized that I had been referring to it as "Critic's Institute" instead of "Critics Institute."

ME. Anal, neurotic, grammar-fascist that I am.

I want to crawl in a hole, take some Excedrin, and DIE.