I'm in the last throes of packing my suitcase. It's filling up rather quickly.

I always get really stressed out when I fly. For one, I get all kinds of air sick if I don't medicate myself. I also have this irrational fear of plane wreckage. This fear has only been exasperated by my viewing of approximately 30 episodes of "Lost" in the past week and change.

What I need to do is take a step back and look at this rationally. "Lost" is about probability. It's about finding the most unlikely scenario. It's about taking stuff that rarely happens, and making it common. So if anything, "Lost" should make me feel really safe to fly. It's improbable that a plane will go down. It rarely happens. But even so, if the unthinkable should happen, make sure and scour all the local tropical islands around the Baltimore/Washington DC area.

matt out