What's that line from Jerry Maguire? "Our company just had a very big day"?

Well our company just had a Very. Big. Day.

Look, I don't want to make more of this than it really is, but I met with the deputy foreign editor, the foreign editor, and the assistant managing editor for foreign news at the Washington mother-effing Post this morning.

(First of all, I was hanging out in The Washington mother-effing Post newsroom. That's like the Holy-of-Holies - you know, that holy temple in Jerusalem where Yawheh resides and nobody's allowed to enter unless it's like by a rope.)

The kinks need to be worked out, but The Washington mother-effing Post has asked me to string for them from down in Caracas. Basically, the editor in charge of Latin American news brought me down to the cafeteria and struck up a conversation in Spanish. So we discussed the whole deal en espanol, and I think that was basically my only test.

So we all met in the managing editor's office, a stern-but-friendly guy who reminded me this does not make me an employee at The Washington mother-effing Post, and if anything happens to me down there, well, I'm on my own...and all that crap. We discussed several other logistical issues, then shook hands...and that was that.

The Post is aware of my AP assignment - full disclosure on both ends. They're looking for a couple of news features a month, with occasional spot news.

So when I got back to the newsroom, I sent off a very carefully worded email to Ian, AP chief down in Caracas, explaining the Post's stringing offer. About a half-hour I heard back:

"That should be fine."

And with that, everything could change. Everything.

Holy fucking mother of fucking god shit crap good lord. Holy god.

Buckle up.