This just in

A good journalist is never really off duty. When stuff happens, like Undesirable No. 1 being taken out by Seal Team 6 on a Sunday night, or the U.S. credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history on a Friday evening, we get all excited, and it suddenly doesn't really matter that we're in our PJs on the couch — we are on it.

As soon as I saw the breaking news about the downgrade tonight, I was on the phone, making sure city desk had seen it, getting our partners on copy desk to update our website, and sending it out myself, from home, to our social media sites.

So, when the kitchen timer went off, alerting me that Maya's fish sticks and tater tots were ready, I missed it completely. I tell you what — fish sticks go from crispy to charcoal pretty quickly.

I try not to let work stuff trump mom stuff very often, but sometimes, to make a headline, you've got to burn a few fish sticks.