bringin' Spanish back

I'm taking steps to bring my Spanish back. Tools include Will's old Spanish textbook from baby Spanish class as well as a learn-Spanish Podcast (spanishpod101.com).

I'm listening to the first Newbie lesson of the latter right now, and I feel kind of like a dweeb listening to their conversation, once at a normal tempo and once in painfully slow Spanish:

BEATRIZ: ¡Hola!
JOSÉ: ¡Hola! Buenos días.
BEATRIZ: ¿Cómo estás?
JOSÉ: Yo estoy bien. ¿Y tú?
BEATRIZ: Yo estoy muy bien. Gracias.

But I figure if I zip through the stupid basics, I'll slowly get more and more comfortable using my Spanish again, and then I can build up my rougher Spanish from there. And since my weakness is production (as it is in just about any language I know, including English), it'll give me a chance to listen and practice along with the recording.


Meanwhile, I have to "keep my characters warm" (a beloved phrase of my Chinese lecture professor) in a couple of different languages, though thankfully many characters in Japanese and Chinese are similar or the same. Trying hard, trying hard.

thoughts on English

Is there a single word designated for the feeling you have when you have to go to the bathroom?

Like, a single word. There's a single word for most everything else that humans find relevant and/or necessary: hungry, thirsty, sleepy, horny. But there isn't one for having to go to the bathroom in general (without getting into specifics like constipation, etc.). What are our thoughts on this? Should this be rectified? What authorities can we contact to right this wrong? Who's the modern-day Shakespeare who can bring a new word for this purpose into our language? What should the word be?

Whatever it is, I'm that right now. D: