I'm Concerned About How Eager You Are To Incorrectly Use The Word Anxious

Alright, folks. Let's clear this up once and for all:

To be "anxious" about something infers hesitation, nervousness, unease, fearfulness, trepidation...in a word: anxiety. You aren't anxious to open Christmas gifts unless you're wondering why the box with holes in it isn't making sounds anymore. Be "eager" all you want. It's the pleasant one.

P.S. It's not, "I could care less" unless you are trying to illustrate that very point. The expression is "I couldn't care less." As in I have nothing left to give you; I'm at the bottom.

And I do care that you keep saying this wrong. But it's possible you couldn't care less that I care.

REQUESTED ADDENDUM: Chosen©er has commented that he would like me to address the difference between "flesh out" and "flush out."

As noted on the website Common Errors In English, located in the links to the right, the two terms are not interchangeable but are somewhat similar. I quote their entry:

To “flesh out” an idea is to give it substance, as a sculptor adds clay flesh to a skeletal armature. To “flush out” a criminal is to drive him or her out into the open. The latter term is derived from bird-hunting, in which one flushes out a covey of quail. If you are trying to develop something further, use “flesh”; but if you are trying to reveal something hitherto concealed, use “flush.”

That's pretty straightforward, but, then, so was the whole "couldn't care less" issue. Confusion is to be expected in situations involving a partial truth that is being withheld for an unspecified reason. For instance, if a murderer was being interrogated by the police, they might want to flesh out the details of how he committed the crime, of which they might know some of the details, while flushing out a motive from the perpetrator.

Things get really confusing if the victim is a rhinoceros and the murderer is a bird hiding in grass. I would be anxious about interrogating the bird.