Nerding Out

Today I loved a conflation (noun: blend, fusion) of things: I found my long lost twenty-page comma style guide (these coveted twenty pages are back from the dead); I used my dusty contraband style guide; and I whipped out my sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. I loved it all. Let's face it—so nerdy. Should I be embarrassed? Yes. Am I embarrassed? No.