As if singing on national television wasn't bad enough.
As if being kebabbed by Messrs Merton & Hislop didn't seal it, I have now added exposure as an intellectual fraud to my list of recent achievements as BBC political editor.
Last night on University Challenge, a News team were beaten - no, overwhelmed - oh all right then, slaughtered by a team of writers.
I'm often asked to list my scariest moments on TV. This was it. Sitting for half an hour under the glare of studio lights knowing that your credibility is being being stripped away layer by layer is, to say the least, alarming. Now I know everyone says this but I did know the answers to some of their questions but in this game you have to be first to get "the starter for ten".
Increasingly desperate I pressed my buzzer and blurted out the wrong answer only to be rewarded by the full-on Paxman sneer. Off air, Jeremy couldn't have been more generous, even agreeing to sign a question card for my son who watches the programme each week after Cubs.
"Bet you know more than your Dad" he wrote. Thanks Jeremy. If you think we were bad, remember that we beat the MPs team to get to the final.
New Year's Resolution 2006 - stick to the day job.
So that's all right then. A key member of Team Kennedy has rushed to his aid.
The Lib Dem Leader in the Lords declared this morning that he didn't want his party to be plunged into a bitter leadership campaign between now and May. So a planned, calm, leadership campaign after May's local elections is all right then.
Lord McNally has said more explicitly what many of Charles Kennedy's closest colleagues have said so far only in code. Over Christmas, the Grand Old Man of the party, Alan Beith, said that the New Year would provide an opportunity to consider whether Mr Kennedy was up to leading the party to the next general election.
Before the festive period, the party's current deputy leader and heir apparent, Sir Menzies Campbell, had refused to give Kennedy his unequivocal backing.
So too the Lib Dem's education spokesman, work and pensions spokesman and many others. They are doing this in public because they do not believe that their leader has listened to them in private. Charles Kennedy's colleagues say that this deeply private man barely blinks when told to his face that he's not performing, leaving them not just unnerved but uncertain whether he's listened to a word they've said.
The message now is plain for all to see - if you don't get your act together, be in no doubt that the bullet's in the post.
PS Perhaps we should now hear from Paul Holmes MP, the chairman of the parliamentary party, who said that calls for Mr Kennedy to step down were a "made-up story" and insisted he had not been approached by anyone expressing doubts about Mr Kennedy's leadership.
