Why I look tired sometimes.

Today I drove down to the Brandywine River Valley to go see an osteopath. I have periodic trouble with my back that requires a spinal adjustment, and this guy is able to fix it in about 15 minutes and it lasts for about a year or so.

That all went as well as having to drive 45 minutes with a backache can go. Then I saw this truck.

And then it happened. Who would think that the back of a truck would set off such a chain of thought? First of all, I always thought the leader in door opening solutions was the arm. And really, who even knew this was a thing? There are leaders and, by implication, followers in door opening solutions? And not just on a national basis. It's on a global basis. Global. All over the world, people are opening doors and these people are leading them in how to solve the problem of opening doors.

I wonder what they consider to be the greatest threat to their dominance in door opening solutions. I suppose there could be an global uprising against doors; that would be bad. I wonder if they are good at all of the different kinds of door opening solutions. Or are they best at the ones that open towards you or the ones that open away from you or the ones that slide into little pockets or revolving doors. I wonder if they have a research team whose goal is to keep them on top of door opening solutions. Maybe the next big thing in door opening is for the door to disappear into the floor, or maybe thinking further down the road, the door simply dematerializes and rematerializes once you've gone through it. And are there main rivals the second leading purveyor of door opening solutions or the leading purveyor of door closing solutions?

Now, some of this may strike you as interesting or funny or good way to pass the time on a 45 minute car ride, but my brain does this all the time whether I want it to or not. And yes, it's sometimes funny, it's sometimes interesting, but it's exhausting. I think that's part of why I enjoy my job, why I might enjoy any job is because it limits the scope of things that I can be thinking about it any particular time. I free associate constantly during class, but that's class. When I'm preparing, I'm outlining, organizing and trying to figure out what will make for a successful lesson. I'm not free associating then, and I'm certainly not thinking about who's going to be the leader in door closing solutions next year.