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[kittydesade]

You can use the present tense short form + といいですね　to say that you hope something nice happens. When you say といいですね you are wishing for the good luck of somebody other than you.

いいアルバイトがあるといいですね。
I hope you find a good part-time job.

雨がふらないといいですね。
I hope it doesn't rain.

To say what you hope for for your own good, you can use といいんですが。This shows the speaker's attitude is more tentative and makes the sentence sound more modest.

しけんがやさしいといいんですが。
I am hoping that the exam is easy.

八時の電車に乗れるといいんですが。
I hope I can catch the eight o'clock train.

short, present といいですね
short, present といいんですが

Note that both といいですね　and といいんですが　mean that you are hoping that something nice happens. This means that these pattterns cannot be used in cases where you hope to do something nice, which is under your control. In such cases, you can usually turn the verb into the potential form.

For example: 大学に行けるといいんですが。 as opposed to:　大学に行くといいんですが。


Oi, splitting headache came back. I could have done without that. Fortunately I have aspirin, a bathrobe, and nothing in particular I need to do for the rest of the night.

Not only did I manage to put together another ten notes onto the Hotel California solo and increase the tempo a hair, I managed to learn how to play Johnny Cash/Trent Reznor's Hurt just about at speed. This in addition to my success at mailing off a rough draft of the BigBang Mixup not just on time but early. Fuck yeah I'm awesome. (Of course then I discovered that the due date had been postponed till, um, March 1st. Which irritates the everliving hell out of me, I mean, I understand that sometimes shit happens but the last time people knocked around with the due dates of a Big Bang I ended up getting majorly screwed up as far as time issues and everything else over Nano and a couple other projects. Christ, people.)

So, yeah. At that rate I can take three weeks to let the draft sit and then come back to it. Actually, I might as well just stick that on the calendar for February 1st, and have that be my come back to it date. I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out, somewhere around the middle the mood shifted from one thing to another, but that's what it's a rough draft for. I'll fix it.

Which means that the rest of tonight will be either, complete and utter fluff, or complete and utter fluff mixed in with bashing together outlines for self-publishing porpoises. Guess which one I'm going to end up doing. Go on, guess. Sigh. Work, work, work. Now I remember why I gave up the first couple of times. I just have to keep reminding myself that if I don't get it done by my self-imposed deadlines, I'll have a better idea at least of how long it'll take me to do this.