Pauline,

Even though language here in the San Francisco Bay Area is pretty casual, I still teach my students not to end sentences with a preposition, so they would write "the person for whom you were looking," with which I am more comfortable (oooh--twice in one sentence).

"If today WERE not an endless highway" is correct, using a subjunctive verb form. But that form is disappearing, so it is not uncommon to hear "If today was not..." instead. This is like fingernails on the blackboard to me. Most people, you might notice, still use the expression "if I were you" not "if I was you." Except the teacher in the room next to mine.

"...he loves it just as I" would have a different meaning than "...he loves it just like me." The former means "he loves" something the same way "I [do]," verb understood in the second clause; and the latter means "he loves" something as much as he loves "me."

But don't you pay me no never-mind. We all seem to understand each other anyhow.

And JOE!

Thanks for fixing me up there. Neglecting my 'neither' was a mighty bad slip-up! I won't never do that again.