Stupid Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation Errors

I was so mortified. I have been looking for a job and one of the things you need to do is have a really well crafted and well written resume. I had labored over my resume. I had diligently and carefully wrote, re-wrote, and edited it to death. When I moved from California to Salt Lake City, Utah, I had to, of course, change my location.

At the top of my resume I have my name and then directly below it my locale.

Well, after applying for many jobs using that very resume, I noticed an error. An embarrassing error. I had inadvertently written, "Sale Lake City." I was mortified, embarrassed. My embarrassment was compounded by the fact that directly below my contact info was a brief synopsis of my professional acumen. One of the lines reads thus: "Excellent oral and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail."

Oh man, I was aghast. I can only hope it doesn't hurt me too much, but I believe it will.

I am usually very careful -- especially in formal writing -- with my grammar, punctuation and spelling. Sometimes, people just make stupid and inadvertent errors. Some of the ones that upset me are:

• When people say they are "nauseous." Well, nauseous means, "sickening to contemplate." For real! The proper way is to say, "nauseated" as in, for example, "I feel nauseated."
• Confusing its and it's. "Its" is an ownership pronoun signifying some kind of, well, ownership. "It's" is a contraction of "it is."
• Subject-verb errors.
• Saying "good" when you should say "well." Baseball manager is notorious for this. He'll say, "He hit really good." Or, "He fielded that ball good." Ah, Jim, that's wrong. You should've said, "He hit really well." And, "He fielded that ball well." This error is so common it was even in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

Notice an error in the bullet list above? I'll give you a second to see if you can spot it. Give up? In formal writing, it is verboten to end a sentence with a period (.). In informal writing, such as this is, it is okay, which is why I didn't mind. If I were writing a college paper, and with two master's degrees I've written many, I would not do that.