omg while trying to be tactful in an email, I just realized that English DOES use the pleonastic negative!!! Ex: "I wonder if you're not overreacting just a little". How didn't I notice this before? I always thought it was just a quaint and adorable quirk of French. I have always wanted to start a band called Pleonastic Ne, or Groovy Moppet which a friend (the one with the "so many words to say so little" State Dept job description) once called me to my unreasonable pleasure. (Burgle! It's the person we ran into at the airport on the way back from...St Maarten I think? and as we walked away you asked her ethnicity and I said Korean and you said "Well, that is the whitest person I have ever met" LOL) I quickly grew frustrated with GarageBand because it would be vastly easier to just play the real instruments (or learn in the case of drum or bass, or find someone who already does), than to try to decipher how the app has "simplified" them, which I was not finding very intuitive. The Guitar Hero problem multiplied. I really am going to learn to play the drums....that was my first choice when parents asked in third grade, request was denied, and I can't believe it hasn't occurred to me since then, til now, to learn.

I have gotten so much done today that I'm all hopped up on it.