My secretary, who is a very, very prim and proper shiny happy squeaky clean churchgoing midwestern values kind of gal, frequently likes to tell me that she is "anal," meaning a good editor. When she looks at me with that cherub face and says that, well, I believe there may be a microsecond pause before I nod in agreement. I think anal is a very good psychobabble term to leave out of the common man's vernacular.