It's Probably Just Me

Edit: I forgot to listen to iTunes while doing this, to supply the weekly list. I'll go listen now, and post the list in a bit.

I did something the other night that I haven't done a lot recently, but did a lot as a kid. Has anyone else out there found themselves thinking about something and wondering why you're thinking about it, so you trace your steps back?

Example: I was thinking about the French History professor I had in college, specifically how he broke his ankle and had to send in recorded lectures for about a week (there was some joking that he broke it playing basketball - he was an old guy who always wore 3-piece suits, which made that joke funny). Not sure why I was thinking about him, I tried to remember what I had been thinking about previously to lead me to that particular memory. It went thusly:

- I had a French History professor who broke his ankle
- I turned in a paper in that French History class late because I was sick
- I also turned in a German History paper late, losing half a grade on it (should have gotten an A-, but had to take a B+)
- We read All Quiet On The Western Front, a novel about World War I, in that German History class
- At the beginning of the movie The Big Red One, Lee Marvin is in World War I and shoots a German soldier, not realizing the war had just ended
- At the end of Sayid's flashback on a recent episode of Lost, the war in Kuwait ends, and the Americans let him go
- In that same episode, Sayid tortures someone
- The episode of Lost that aired the night I was doing this little memory exercise also touched upon Sayid and the guy he tortured
- I had just watched that episode.

So I was thinking about my French History professor because I had just watched Lost.

I used to do this sort of thing a lot when I was a kid. Has anyone else done this, or is it just me?