My Combo Meal of Fear

I have mentioned here before my fear of whales, especially killer whales. I don't mind them out in the ocean. I just don't want to go to Sea World any time soon. I imagine them lurking in waters that I can't see the bottom of, like lakes and big pools. I know, rationally, that this silly but I have been known to leap- screaming, from a pool after imagining that I felt the cool skin of Shamu brush against my leg.

My other fear is more like an anxiety that has grown over time: flying in airplanes. It wasn't so bad back in the days of my youth when mimosas and peanuts were still handed out freely, and I could manage to go first class. Besides all the horrible things involving planes that have transpired since those carefree days, another major contributor to this fear is LOST. Yes, the television show. I do not wish to be stuck on that island, no matter how cool John Locke is.

Well, I have found something so disturbing to me, thanks to Google images, that I will say no more about it. Just LOOK at it! A mechanical beast wrought from my nightmares and engineered to reality. If a real plane were to ever land on the LOST island, it would be this beast!

THE SHAMU PLANE!

If for some sick reason I ever had to book a flight on this thing... well, I just hope that Locke is on my flight, too. And I do hope they are serving some mimosas (or brandy, or horse tranquilizers).

LOST season finale, GRRR!

So I just watched the season finale of LOST, and while I'm glad that some questions were finally answered -I am SO pissed that John Locke was dead at the end! He is my favorite character. :( I had been hoping this whole time that it was anyone but Locke... but I haven't given up hope yet. As you know, stranger things have happened on the show.

Penny and Desmonde are together again at last. That's good.
Jin was on the boat when it exploded (although I don't think he's dead.) That sucks.
Sawyer stayed on the island and is hanging out with Juliet. Don't have an opinion on that one yet.

I also had to keep a grumpy toddler under control during this two hours, so I'm sure there are things I missed. I wish I still had DVR so I could watch it again later!

*** Edited to add this thought: That kid Aaron is amazing! Claire mysteriously disappeared into the night and left him, and today's episode is presumably at least a day or two later, right? Umm, WHAT is that baby eating? He has been breastfed since birth and there has been no mention of that at all. I understand suspension of disbelief and all (black smoke monsters, disappearing islands, dead people talking, I know!), but address it somehow people. That baby has barely made a peep even though his mother and only source of nutrition is gone, then he is in a helicopter crash into the ocean and they barely dub in the hint of a whimper. Poor kid!