Even for places three hours away (Portland) I fly instead of drive! I figure half hour to the airport, hour at the airport, hour on the plane, half hour to my destination...but only some of that do I have to be awake and paying attention. Whereas driving takes just as long, I'm more likely to hit traffic than have a bad delay (though I've had them) and I have to pay attention the whole time I'm driving. Ick.

Theresa, I have not taken the opportunity till now to woohoo! your Hawaii trip. Well, the being-in-Hawaii part, anyway. Much smoothness-of-travel and calm-ma, otherwise. I hear humming Metallica helps.

msbelle, your massive accomplishments over the last few month are truly boggling to us mere mortals. And methinks your standards for yourself are pretty damn high. You do need help, I'll grant you. But I have no doubt you'll organize and implement that solution and incorporate it seamlessly as you have every other backup and aid to this awesome and forward-looking life you've made. Courage, dearheart. Trust in yourself, for you're the one of the strongest women I know.

And I was honestly worried I would get turned away at the gate for being too fat for one seat, or that whoever was next to me would complain about the audacity of my thighs or arm to bump theirs.

pshaw! You are nowhere near large enough for that to be a problem. As for the bumping of thighs or arms, I am extremely territorial, so I'm like a hawk for that sort of thing, but as long as the person isn't deliberately encroaching on my space, it's fine. For example, the guy who had his foot under the seat in front of me. When I asked him to move, he said oh, well, I need to stretch out my leg. I replied "I'm happy to get up so that you can walk."

I hear humming Metallica helps.

I'm taking a few eps to get me through the trip.

A cute picture of a baby with a funny caption: [link]

I'm hoping there are some linguistically-bent Buffistas online now. I'm generally pretty good at dissecting language but I've never actually studied linguistics. So I'm not sure if I have the name of this right.

Yesterday I tweeted "...I'm have" but meant "I'm going to have". I then said that I'd left out half of a compound verb. But is it really a compound verb? Honestly, I'm not even sure what tense the whole phrase is because I don't think it's a simple future tense.

TLC has a show about little people who own a chocolate shop?

Spidra, it is the English equivalent of the simple future.

Ginger, wouldn't that be "I will have"? "I'm going to have" sorta puts the emphasis on action towards the future, it seems to me.

Wikipedia calls it the "going-to" future.

There's a way in which getting too deeply into language abstraction makes my eyes glaze (like the long discussion on an Irish list I'm on) but there's another way in which I want to delve into it. I would really like to know some of these more obscure (to me) names for things.

ETA link [link]